Volkskundemuseum Wien
Key facts at a glance
- Audio guides, multimedia guides, listening stations
- 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
- Partial inductive hearing system
Information
- Laudongasse 15–19
- 1080 Vienna
- Vienna
- Open address in Google Maps
- Tue to Sun 10:00-17:00
- Thu 10:00-20:00
- € 4 for people with a disability card
- € 8 for assistant
Contact
Description
The Folklore Museum will be closed from October 2024 to June 2026 due to a general renovation of the museum building. During this time, the museum will move its activities to the Otto Wagner Areal in Vienna's 14th district. The information on accessibility and inclusive educational programs relates to the museum building before the closure and will be continued or updated after the reopening. The temporarily used Otto Wagner Areal is NOT barrier-free.
The Vienna Museum of Folklore is one of the largest international ethnographic museums with extensive collections of folk art and historical and contemporary everyday cultures in Europe. A permanent exhibition and changing special exhibitions deal with a wide range of topics related to living together in a constantly changing world. The museum uses regular events, interventions, performative art, theater projects, cooperation with NGOs, research and public science projects, online collections, online publications and social media channels for an active, critical and participatory discussion.
Barrier-free accessibility
Entrance: The museum is wheelchair accessible and has an elevator (elevator door: 184cm) that leads to the special exhibition area. The permanent exhibition ("The Coasts of Austria") is on the ground floor. The disabled parking space is directly in front of the museum entrance, which is accessible without steps.
Inside the building: A wheelchair accessible toilet is located on the ground floor.
In exhibitions: Seating in some rooms
How content is conveyed
in Easy Language: All mediation programs are designed to be barrier-free for deaf, blind, visually impaired or mobility-impaired people and in easy language upon request.
As audio texts: Listening via mobile phone (smartphones and headphones can be borrowed free of charge)
In sign language: The exhibition openings will be accompanied and translated by a sign language interpreter, if indicated in the program.
multimedia: Listening via mobile phone (smartphones and headphones can be borrowed free of charge)
QR-code: Listening via mobile phone (smartphones and headphones can be borrowed free of charge)
Miscellaneous: The barrier-free and inclusive open-air short film festival dotdotdot takes place every year at the Vienna Folklore Museum.
Inclusive guided tours and offers
Target group-specific tours:
- All mediation programs are designed on request for deaf, blind, visually impaired or mobility-impaired people and in easy language
- Specially developed educational programs are offered for visually impaired and blind visitors.
Sensory mediation aids: in placement programs