Museum Niederösterreich

Key facts at a glance

  • Barrier-free toilets
  • Accessible website
  • Barrier-free entrance
  • Barrier-free reception
  • Reduced admission
  • Special tours & offers
  • Rental of rollator/wheelchair

Information

Cultural District 5
3100 St. Pölten
Lower Austria
Open address in Google Maps
Tue-Sun 9:00-17:00
€ 11 for people with a disability card
free for assistant

Contact

info@museumnoe.at
museumnoe.at/de/general/barrier-freedom

Description

The Lower Austria Museum is not only a museum, but also a zoo with over 40 living animal species and represents the connection between people, nature and climate, where knowledge is imparted in a playful and inspiring way. Immerse yourself in 40,000 years of human history and experience the fauna and flora of Lower Austria.

Physical accessibility

Entrance: ground-level access, double-leaf glass doors (passage width 2 meters)

Inside the building: Exhibition area (except glacier in the House of Nature), cash desk, shop, cloakroom, toilet facilities, lifts including acoustic tour, restaurant

In exhibitions: a large part of the exhibition architecture is barrier-free (e.g. display cases that can be moved under), most of the interactive elements are wheelchair accessible

Accessible information and content

In Easy/Simple Language: the most important information on the website

To listen: MuseumsAPP

In sign language: Partial translation of Museum APP content into ÖGS and/or subtitling

In Braille and to touch: tactile model of the museum in the foyer, elevators

Multimedia: MuseumsAPP

Inclusive Art and Culture Education

Target group-specific tours: Guided tours of the permanent exhibitions for blind and visually impaired people are offered upon request.

Sensory mediation aids: some touch, smell and hearing stations in the exhibitions

Seal of approval

  • Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur
  • Austrian Museum Quality Seal