Römerstadt Carnuntum

Key facts at a glance

  • Barrier-free toilets
  • Barrier-free entrance
  • Barrier-free reception
  • Assistance dogs allowed
  • Reduced admission
  • Inductive hearing system
  • Tactile orientation aids
  • Rental of rollator/wheelchair

Information

Main Street 1A
2404 Petronell-Carnuntum
Lower Austria
Open address in Google Maps
Mid-March to mid-November daily 9:00-17:00
July/August daily 9:00-18:00
€ 11 for people with a disability card
free for assistant

Contact

marion.grossmann@carnuntum.at
carnuntum.at/de/barrierfreedom

Description

The Roman city quarter with reconstructed ancient houses, unique in the world, as well as the amphitheaters and the Carnuntinum Museum as the treasure house of Carnuntum bring antiquity back to life. Carnuntum was an important Roman world city on the border of the Roman Empire from the 1st to the 4th century AD. In 2021, Carnuntum was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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Physical accessibility

Entrance: barrier-free from the car park to the ticket office and to the information island on site, floor guidance system

Inside the building: The Carnuntinum Museum is barrier-free with a stair lift, cloakrooms and toilets.

In exhibitions: The area of the Roman quarter is only partially wheelchair accessible due to the gravel path network. Portable ramps are available in the reconstructions. Barrier-free toilet in the sanitary building on site; floor guidance system from the car park to the site.

Accessible information and content

In Easy/Simple Language: printed short guide

To listen: mobile induction loops at all cash desks, inductive hearing systems in the Roman quarter

In sign language: Videos in temporary exhibitions

In Braille and to touch: tactile models and floor plans, tactile labels throughout the site, short guides in Braille

Multimedia: video stations in the field

Inclusive Art and Culture Education

Target group-specific tours & workshops: No

Sensory mediation aids: Tactile models, tactile floor plans of the Roman houses, tactile model of the district

Seal of approval

  • Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur
  • Austrian Museum Quality Seal