Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
Key facts at a glance
- Audio guides, multimedia guides, listening stations
- Assistance dogs allowed
- Reduced admission
- for people with dementia
- for people with hearing impairment
- for people with visual impairment
- Easy or simple language
- Kulturpass: Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur
- Special tours & offers
- Tactile orientation aids
- Partial inductive hearing system
- Rental of rollator/wheelchair
Information
- Burgring 5
- 1010 Vienna
- Vienna
- Open address in Google Maps
- Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00
- Thu 10:00-21:00
- € 15 for people with a disability card
- € 15 for assistant
- Prices for inclusive tours and workshops: on request
Contact
- Julia Häussler
- julia.haeussler@khm.at
- +43 1 525 24 – 0
- khm.at
Description
The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna is one of the most important museums in the world. The extensive collections were originally owned by the imperial Habsburg family. Almost four million objects span a period of 5,000 years. Special highlights include the paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the treasures of the Kunstkammer Vienna and the Egyptian Oriental Collection.
Barrier-free accessibility
Entrance: barrier-free entrance Burgring 5
Inside the building: all exhibition rooms, cloakroom, 2 lifts, 5 toilets, café, shop
In exhibitions: Barrier-free floor, space for wheelchair users, seating, orientation aids, plans in Braille on site, plans as audio file on the website for download
How content is conveyed
As audio texts: Audio guide with object descriptions for blind and visually impaired people
In sign language:
- Teasers in sign language in ÖGS and IS for special exhibitions and information on the collections
- 100 masterpieces in ÖGS and IS in the online database
in Braille:
- tactile orientation plan
- Publication to borrow and buy: “Seeing things differently together”. Experience the art of the Old Masters with all your senses (optical, haptic and auditory elements, texts in Braille)
Miscellaneous: in special exhibitions Big Letter Books with object descriptions in large print
Inclusive guided tours and offers
Target group-specific tours:
Barrier*FREE*Day:
- Touch tours every first Friday of the month
- Guided tours in sign language every second Friday of the month
- Guided tours in simple language every third Friday of the month
- Guided tours for people with dementia and companions every fourth Friday of the month. Admission and guided tour free of charge
Including guided tours and workshops: Guided tours and workshops available at any time upon request.
Sensory mediation aids: Selected works of art and objects are available as tactile reliefs, as thermal prints or as replicas for blind and visually impaired people to touch. On request, Braille descriptions of the tactile reliefs are available.