Volkskundemuseum Wien

Access preferences

Educational Work (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.

We welcome your feedback and suggestions on how we can further develop our accessibility services.

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, ...).

We write "System change instead of climate change" on our posters, but also in our program. The climate crisis, discrimination, racism and sexism arise in a system that only represents the interests of a small, often privileged number of people. We want to question this system and problematize it, because this is the only way we can shape our coexistence and our future together. As a museum, we not only discuss, collect and present climate change and the climate crisis, we also want to actively combat them. We want to take a stand. Fight Every Crisis, Fight Climate Crisis.

Museums For Future

In September 2019 we posted our support for #FridaysForFuture on the museum's social media channels. Employees of the Volkskundemuseum Wien, the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Wien, and the Technisches Museum Wien demonstrated at the global climate strike on September 27, 2019, under #MuseumsForFuture for environmental and climate policy measures to meet the 1.5 ° C target of the Paris Agreement. NEMO, the Network of European Museum Organizations, and the Austrian Museum Association also drew attention to #MuseumsForFuture. This resulted in the now international action platform Museums For Future .

With #MuseumsForFuture we propose the following ideas and possibilities to become active as a museum or cultural
location : 1) Take part in the #MittagspauseForFuture.
2) Invite strikers to your museum.
3) Offer a children's program on the sustainable future.
4) Enable teach-ins, strike sign handicrafts, and workshops.
5) Put an exhibit/work of art on strike.
6) Document the strike and tell stories of activists.
7) Only sell local, plant-based foods in the restaurant.
8) Make ONE thing about running a museum sustainable.
9) Promote the use of public transport to get there.
10) Stop sponsoring fossil fuel companies.

www.museumsforfuture.org
Twitter: @ museums4future
Email: action@museumsforfuture.org