Oberes Belvedere

Key facts at a glance

  • Audio guides, multimedia guides, listening stations
  • Barrier-free toilets
  • Barrier-free entrance
  • Barrier-free reception
  • Assistance dogs allowed
  • Reduced admission
  • for people with hearing impairment
  • for people with visual impairment
  • Easy or simple language
  • Kulturpass: Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur
  • Special tours & offers
  • Partially accessible website
  • Partial tactile orientation aids
  • Rental of rollator/wheelchair

Information

Prinz Eugen-Strasse 27
1030 Vienna
Vienna
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Mon-Sun 10:00-18:00
€ 4 for people with a disability card
€ 4 for assistant
Prices for inclusive tours and workshops: € 5

Contact

Julia Haimburger
public@belvedere.at
+43 1 795 57-0
belvedere.at

Description

The Belvedere is a world cultural heritage site, a baroque jewel and the site of the Austrian State Treaty. Highlights include the architecture of the palace, the famous view over Vienna and Austrian art from the Middle Ages to the present day - including the world's largest collection of Klimt paintings with the Kiss, works by Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt and the Viennese Biedermeier.

Barrier-free accessibility

Entrance: Ground-level access through the main entrance, two single-leaf, heavy doors (passage width 102cm)

Inside the building: all exhibition rooms, 2 lifts, toilet facilities, cloakroom, shop, café

In exhibitions: Seating, orientation aids, overview plans in Braille on request on site, sufficient space for wheelchair users

How content is conveyed

in Easy Language: Booklet, changing themed tours

As audio texts: Audio guide to the collection

In sign language: Multimedia guide in ÖGS

in Braille: tactile orientation maps for loan, tactile reliefs for individual works of art with text in Braille

multimedia: App Smartify, multimedia guides for loan

QR-code: for information in simple language, barrier-free PDFs, the Smartify app

Miscellaneous: Booklet: “Alone or together? Being human in time and art around 1900. A tour in simple language.”

Inclusive guided tours and offers

Target group-specific tours:

  • Regular educational program “Seeing Differently”: inclusive art viewing with a focus on multisensory mediation for sighted, visually impaired and blind visitors.
  • “Simply put”: an inclusive tour in understandable language.
  • “Timelessly beautiful”: participation-oriented tour for people with dementia or forgetfulness and their companions

Including guided tours and workshops: All inclusive offers, as well as tours with sign language interpreters: in can also be booked on request

Sensory mediation aids: Tactile models and reliefs as well as texts in Braille of selected works of art are available in the exhibition rooms