Landesmuseum Württemberg / Württemberg State Museum

Access preferences

For the blind and visually impaired (Multisensory Experiences)

Guided tours for people with visual impairments are possible through different departments of the state museum. During these tours, for example, object replicas and other materials are used for palpation and better perception. Please contact our visitor service on the info telephone (see below).
Barrier-freeDirections

The visually impaired are allowed to bring their assistance dogs into the museum. Otherwise, dogs are not allowed in the museum.

Tactile information boards, guidance, and control elements are intended to help blind people to visit the State Museum. In the old castle and in the fruit box, the elevators are equipped with tactile controls.

You can reach the Old Palace in just a few steps by bus or tram from the Charlottenplatz or Schlossplatz stops. Both stops are equipped with elevators and ramps.

For the deaf and hearing impaired (Multisensory Experiences)

Hearing aids can be connected to the intercom used during the tours. Both wearers of in-the-ear and behind-the-ear hearing aids and people with implants follow the guide even without eye contact.

Most audiovisual media are subtitled.

General Accessibility in the Museum (Accessible entrance for pushchairs and wheelchairs)

Barrier-free museum

The Landesmuseum Württemberg strives for barrier-free access in as many areas as possible. That is why our exhibitions and offers are generally open to everyone: people with disabilities, people in wheelchairs, people with visual impairments, blind people, people with hearing impairments, deaf people, people with dementia, special needs classes, and groups with learning difficulties.

Barrier-free toilets and baby changing rooms, seating in the exhibitions, films with subtitles, various media guides, elevators with signs in tactile writing, and announcements are available in the museum.

Due to the structural features of the listed Old Castle, there are still corners that are difficult or even almost impossible to reach with a wheelchair, for example. The visitor service will be happy to assist you with orientation in the buildings and with accessibility at any time.

A large part of our exhibition architecture is wheelchair accessible. All exhibition rooms accessible for wheelchair users have parquet floors, stone slabs, or carpeting that is easy to drive on. Please note that due to the historical building structure, the radius of movement is sometimes less than 1.50 m.

We try to make the presentation of our exhibition objects accessible through all-view glass showcases with low plinths and exhibition texts at a height that is legible for wheelchair users.

Please note: Simple wheelchairs can be borrowed free of charge at the gate if required.

Inclusive educationand barrier-free tours (Group and Tours)

In addition to architectural accessibility, we have developed attractive offers that enable people with and without restrictions to participate in our exhibitions. We have been offering free and specially designed tours for people with disabilities for many years. They are free of charge and are addressed in detail to:

Blind and visually impaired visitors
Deaf visitors
Hearing aid wearers and the hearing impaired
Special schools
learning weak groups
and people with dementia.

Our contact persons on the info line will be happy to advise you on the barrier-free offers in the show collections, special exhibitions and in the Junge Schloss: 0711 89 535 111.

Special tours for people with dementia
A tour gives people with dementia the opportunity to refresh their creative resources and inspire their emotional experience despite the gradual loss of intellectual abilities. After a short meeting over coffee and pastries in a quiet place with a nicely laid table, individual works are discussed. The observation of the object should give impulses for discussion and exchange.

Guided tours with hearing aids
People who are hard of hearing can connect to the receiver of the tour system using their hearing aids using neck loops (output at the audio output point) or directly with the earphones. Both wearers of in-the-ear and behind-the-ear hearing aids and people with implants follow the guide even without eye contact. Via the T-coil integrated in the hearing aid, the voice is received from a short distance without reverberation and ambient noise, thus significantly improving speech intelligibility. Ask the hearing aid manufacturer whether your hearing aid has a T-coil or whether it still needs to be activated.