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. Apart from these two themed evenings, the café-restaurant in both the Naturhistorisches Museum Vienna and the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna are, of course, open on a regular basis.
A visit to Schönbrunn Palace can also be combined with dinner. Depending on your choice, the "Evening in Schönbrunn" package includes a tour of the palace, dinner in the Café-Restaurant Residenz and a concert.
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.
Accommodated very nobly, namely in the same classical palace and Vienna's biggest exhibition house, the Albertina, is "Do & Co Albertina", which apart from ambitious cuisine offers a delightful 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.
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 doors300 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.
Classic Pass: 32€ instead of 34€ (incl. audio guide, valid vom 1.4.-2.11.) / Sisi Ticket (Grand Tour / Schönbrunn Palace; Sisi Museum; Vienna Furniture Museum): 40,50€ instead of 44€ (incl. audio guide) / Tickets on www.imperialtickets.com and on site
Parking spaces for people with disabilities
at main entrance portal (Schönbrunner Schlossstrasse, 3 parking spaces), Meidlinger Tor (2 parking spaces), close to Kavalierstrakt as well as Valerietrakt (2 parking spaces) and Fürstenstöckl (1 parking space)
Elevator available
Door 90 cm wide
Further information
Seeing eye dogs allowed
Wheelchair accessible restroom available.
Special offers for people with disabilities
Free wheelchair rental – contact attendant at main portal (3 wheelchairs) or at Hietzinger Tor and at Meidlinger Tor (1 wheelchair each).
Supplemental devices available for the visually impaired. Tours for visitors with with disabilities or special needs on request.
Museum Sign Language Guide available in ÖGS and IS for the Imperial or Grand Tour, prior reservation recommended, further information:
https://www.schoenbrunn.at/en/visitor-information/barrier-free-access/
Comments
Access to all exhibition rooms: no steps. Freight elevator for extra wide wheelchairs: door width: 160 cm, cabin depth: 220 cm, cabin width: 156 cm.
Visitors' center in the Gardetrakt by the main gate, stepless access, door width: approx. 144 cm, wheelchair-accessible restroom can be reached by wheelchair platform lift – platform 110/140 cm, door width: 90 cm in the corridor area and 94 cm to the outdoors, accessible from outside with a Euro-Key.
