Wien Museum Karlsplatz
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
- Inductive hearing system
- Kulturpass: Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur
- Special tours & offers
- Tactile orientation aids
- Rental of rollator/wheelchair
Information
- Karlsplatz 8
- 1040 Vienna
- Vienna
- Open address in Google Maps
- Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00
- possibly Thu 10:00-21:00
- free for people with disability cards
- free for assistant
Contact
- Jennie Carvill Schellenbacher
- jennie.schellenbacher@wienmuseum.at
- +43 1 505 87 47
- wienmuseum.at
Description
At the end of 2023, the Vienna Museum Karlsplatz will open with a new permanent exhibition on how history has made Vienna what it is today. The history of the city - the people, the ideas and the events - unfolds for visitors on three floors, drawing on the extensive collections of the City of Vienna. The recently renovated museum also offers an exciting program of temporary exhibitions and daily events as well as an extensive range of educational offerings.
Barrier-free accessibility
Entrance: A tactile floor guidance system leads to the barrier-free entrance and further into the building via a tactile model of the building to the information desk.
Inside the building: All areas of the museum are wheelchair accessible. There is a wheelchair accessible toilet on every floor. On the first floor there is a toilet for everyone with a reclining area for adults and a ceiling lift. The lifts have Braille buttons and an acoustic announcement. A floor guidance system leads to the lifts, cloakroom and tactile plans and orientation aids.
In exhibitions: When designing the exhibition, particular emphasis was placed on accessibility. There are regular seating options. Display cases, AV stations and tactile stations are accessible and can be identified with a tactile stick. Tactile markings on the floor are intended to aid orientation.
How content is conveyed
in Easy Language: The media guide provides information in easy language.
As audio texts: Chapters and subchapter texts in the exhibition are also available in the media guide
In sign language: The language selection at film stations is German, English and ÖGS. ÖGS is also available in the media guide.
in Braille: Tactile orientation plans, selectively at tactile stations.
multimedia: All AV stations with sound are equipped with an induction loop. You can set the font size at the research station yourself. The media guide includes ÖGS, easy language and image descriptions.
QR-code: QR codes are used to access the media guide content on your own device
Inclusive guided tours and offers
Target group-specific tours: Information on the museum homepage
Including guided tours and workshops: Information on the museum homepage
Sensory mediation aids:
- The aim of the permanent exhibition was to consistently implement the 2-senses principle
- Various touch stations can be found throughout the exhibition.
- All listening stations have transcripts, all film stations have German and English subtitles as well as ÖGS interpreting to choose from.