First to the museum, then an excellent meal: artistic and culinary pleasures combine with maximum pleasure in Vienna's museums.
The Naturhistorisches Museum Viennaorganizes a culinary Wednesday in its magnificent domed hall and offers either a mussel or asparagus dinner, depending on the season.The breathtaking view across Vienna from the roof of the museum is best booked at the same time.
The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna invites you to a gourmet evening every Thursday with a multi-course dinner including museum visit. Here as well, the visitors dine in the imposing domed hall – a unique experience. As well as during these two themed evenings, the café-restaurant in both the Museum of Natural History Vienna and the Museum of Art History are also open during the day.
The Salonplafond restaurant in the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, is well worth a visit. With its imposing historic ceiling (to which the restaurant’s name refers) and many design elements such as furniture by Josef Frank and chairs by Oswald Haerdtl and Ernst Schwadron, the restaurant fits perfectly into the MAK.
The “Do & Co Albertina” restaurant is located in the same neoclassical palace as the Albertina Art Museum and offers Mediterranean-inspired cuisine as well as a wonderful sidewalk café with a view of the Burggarten.
After a visit to the Leopold Museum with its masterpieces of Austrian Modernism, including the world’s biggest Egon Schiele collection, the museum’s Café Leopold beckons with delights of Asian and Viennese cuisine.
From the Porcelain Museum of the Augarten Porcelain Manufactory, head straight to the Sperling restaurant for lunch, dinner or coffee. The museum restaurant offers great food in a pretty castle right in the middle of the Augarten.
A meal at the trude restaurant is the perfect accompaniment for a tour of the Wien Museum. The restaurant is named after the photographer Trude Fleischmann, and the Wien Museum has a large collection of her works. The restaurant serves up modern interpretations of Viennese cuisine in a welcoming atmosphere.
The Casino Kulinarium restaurant in the House of Strauss, the museum about the Viennese waltz king Johann Strauss, invites you to sample some of its delicious dishes. Here, too, the focus is on modern Viennese cuisine. The colorful and flashy interior designed by architect Denis Košutić, who also designed the museum, is well worth seeing. In summer, a beautiful outdoor dining area complements the restaurant.
In the Mezzanine of the Natural History Museum Vienna there is a series of 15 free-standing exhibits from the fields of mineralogy, geology, and anthropology designed especially with blind visitors to the museum in mind. A map and the object descriptions are also available in Braille at the information.
Comments
All facilities suitable for wheelchair users (except the roof guide! Access to restaurant/café: no steps. Seeing-eye dogs permitted in exhibition area.
5 Steps
(Double swinging doors 300 cm wide)
on Maria-Theresien-Platz, no ramp
Side entrance
on Maria-Theresien-Platz, no ramp
Car parks Main entrance
5
Parking spaces for people with disabilities
on Heldenplatz
Elevator available
Door 99 cm wide
Further information
Wheelchair accessible restroom available.
Special offers for people with disabilities
Wheelchair rental possible (please reserve one day in advance).
Guided tours for visitors with special needs as well as tactile tours for the blind and visually impaired on request (Tel. +43 1 525 24-5202). Three masterpieces of the Renaissance collection of the painting gallery, selected objects of the Kunstkammer, the Egyptian-Oriental collection and the collection of antiquities are available to the blind and visually impaired as castings for touching. A brochure with image descriptions of this in Braille is available. The Kunsthistorisches Museum offers workshops for people with dementia (Tel. +41 1 525 24-5202 or email: kunstvermittlung@khm.at)
Wheelchair users who visit the museum via Burgring 5 can purchase their tickets at the shop in the lobby.
Comments
The museum is a place of encounter and sensory perception and offers plenty of opportunity to stimulate vistors and motivate them to interact with one another by looking at art together and then getting creative themselves. Induction loop available at the audio guide stand.
