Volkskundemuseum Wien / The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art

Access preferences

Educational Work (Easy Read & Understanding)

On request, all educational programs are designed to be accessible to deaf and hearing impaired, blind, visually impaired, or handicapped persons and in easy language. For visually impaired and blind visitors we offer specially developed educational programs.

Visits to guided tours of the exhibition and participation in educational programs are barrier-free for deaf participants by prior arrangement. In cooperation with the association Baff. Promoting accessibility. Communication assistance for deaf people.

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

The museum is barrier-free and has an elevator (elevator door: 184 cm), which leads to the area of special exhibitions. The permanent exhibition ("The Shores of Austria") is located on the ground floor. The disabled parking lot is directly in front of the steplessly accessible museum entrance. A wheelchair-accessible toilet is located on the ground floor.

Our exhibition openings are accompanied and translated by a sign language interpreter, if indicated in the program. Every year the Vienna Folklore Museum hosts the barrier-free and inclusive open-air short film festival dotdotdot.

Museums for Future (Environmentally responsible)

The Volkskundemuseum Vienna is very proud to be part of Museums For Future.
We are convinced that different social voices have to contribute to the climate crisis and that cultural institutions should also be clearly audible.
We are concerned with ecologies and resources every day on a small and large scale, in everyday operations, in our exhibitions and research. We are concerned with how we as a museum can not only negotiate the issue of sustainability, environmental and climate protection socially and in the museum, but also how we can make specific, often only small changes in our different areas of work (infrastructure, publications, gastronomy, research, Exhibition, ...).