Weltmuseum Wien
The most important things at a glance
- Audio guides, apps, multimedia, listening stations
- Assistance dogs allowed
- Reduced admission
- for people with hearing impairments / in ÖGS
- for people with visual impairments
- in easy or simple language
- Culture Pass: Hunger for art and culture
- Special tours & offers
- Tactile orientation aids
- Rollator/wheelchair rental
information
- addressNew Hofburg, Heldenplatz1010 ViennaViennaOpen address in Google Maps
- Opening hours
- daily 10:00-18:00
- Tue 10:00-21:00
- Entrance
- € 12 for people with a disability card
- € 12 for assistant
Contact
- E-mail addressinfo@weltmuseumwien.at
- websiteweltmuseumwien.at/barrierefrei/
Description
The Weltmuseum is a place where people and cultures come together in a unique way. It is dedicated to the diversity of humanity and documents Austria's historical relationships with the world through its non-European collections.
Physical accessibility
- Entrance: Step-free access via platform lift, parking spaces for people with reduced mobility in the short-term parking zone at Heldenplatz
- In the building: All exhibition areas are step-free via a lift, manually opening glass doors, lockers, wheelchair-accessible toilets, cafe
- In exhibitions: barrier-free floor, movement space for wheelchair users, seating
Accessible information and content
- In easy/simple language: Accompanying booklet in simple language
- To listen: Audio guide and listening stations
- In sign language: No
- In Braille and tactile: Elevator with Braille
- Multimedia: Media stations, listening stations, film contributions with sound and subtitles
- Miscellaneous: Exhibition texts in large print
Inclusive art and cultural education
- Target group-specific tours: Once a month on Tuesdays, alternating tours for blind people with tactile objects and tours in sign language
- Sensory mediation aids: Every first Saturday of the month, between 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM, the "Bright Hours" lighting system is switched on in the permanent exhibition. This lighting system was developed specifically for visually impaired people in collaboration with the Austrian Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired.