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Danube Island Festival 2019, view of the stage, illuminated in red
© Alexander Müller www.alexandermüller.at

Viennese cultural highlights in summer

In summer, all Vienna becomes a stage: in July and August, 2,000 artists give 800 performances in 25 locations, from music to theater, dance and cabaret, to circus and a children's program – with free admission and Covid-safe, of course. The Federal Museums have also come up with something.

The museums were closed for a few weeks because of the coronavirus crisis. Now they're open again and looking forward to lots of visitors over the summer. As a special "welcome back" offer, there is a special summer Federal Museums Card, which costs €19 instead of €59 until September 15, 2020. It entitles the holder to make one visit to all eight Federal Museums. The promotional card can be purchased directly in the museums or online at www.bundesmuseencard.at.

Main entrance to the Albertina
Included with the Federal Museums Card: the Albertina ... – © Albertina / Harald Eisenberger
Upper Belvedere, rear
... the Belvedere with Gustav Klimt's famous 'Kiss' ... – © WienTourismus/Paul Bauer
Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Fine Arts)
... the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna with key works from all ages of art history ... – © WienTourismus/Peter Rigaud
MAK Design Lab
... the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts with leading design of yesterday and today ... – © MAK/Georg Mayer
mumok, Museum of Modern Art, exterior shot, MuseumsQuartier
... the mumok – Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna with an extensive collection ranging from classical Modernism to the present day ... – © mumok, Foto: Rainer Mirau
Close-up Venus of Willendorf
... the Naturhistorisches Museum Vienna with highlights such as the famous 'Venus of Willendorf' ... – © WienTourismus/Gregor Hofbauer
Grand Hall of the Austrian National Library
... the Austrian National Library with its Grand Hall ... – © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
exterior view of the Vienna Museum of Technology
... and the Vienna Museum of Technology, which invites you to join in and try out. – © Technisches Museum Wien
Main entrance to the Albertina
Included with the Federal Museums Card: the Albertina ... – © Albertina / Harald Eisenberger
Upper Belvedere, rear
... the Belvedere with Gustav Klimt's famous 'Kiss' ... – © WienTourismus/Paul Bauer
Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Fine Arts)
... the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna with key works from all ages of art history ... – © WienTourismus/Peter Rigaud
MAK Design Lab
... the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts with leading design of yesterday and today ... – © MAK/Georg Mayer
mumok, Museum of Modern Art, exterior shot, MuseumsQuartier
... the mumok – Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna with an extensive collection ranging from classical Modernism to the present day ... – © mumok, Foto: Rainer Mirau
Close-up Venus of Willendorf
... the Naturhistorisches Museum Vienna with highlights such as the famous 'Venus of Willendorf' ... – © WienTourismus/Gregor Hofbauer
Grand Hall of the Austrian National Library
... the Austrian National Library with its Grand Hall ... – © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
exterior view of the Vienna Museum of Technology
... and the Vienna Museum of Technology, which invites you to join in and try out. – © Technisches Museum Wien

All Vienna is a stage

Each week from Thursday to Sunday, Vienna's Kultursommer 2020 presents the full range of the cultural landscape: music from pop to classical, dance and performance, theater, readings, cabaret, new circus, character and object theater, as well as migrant art. Two acts perform on each stage each evening. Some locations also offer children's and youth theater during the daytime. Each venue will have a maximum number of visitors to ensure that audiences are able to socially distance. 2,000 artists will give 800 performances at 25 locations. The two largest – and covered – stages of Vienna's Kultursommer are located on Danube Island (for 500 visitors) and on Laaer Berg (for 300 visitors).

Open-air stages

Theater will be performed outdoors more often than usual this year – on Vienna's summer stages: open-air performances are offered by venues like the Marionette Theater at Schönbrunn Palace, the Pawlatschenbühne of the Wiener Metropol, and the new Theater im Park at the Belvedere, which is operated by Michael Niavarani and Georg Hoanzl. The setting for this theater is the beautiful, 2-hectare private garden of the Princely Schwarzenberg Family Foundation. A temporary, transparent open-air stage stands between two mighty sycamore trees. Opposite is a Baroque grotto, where an open-air theater was planned centuries ago. An indoor tip for enjoying culture in summer is the legendary Theater am Spittelberg.

Kultursommer 2020
Design of a performance venue for Vienna's Kultursommer 2020 – © JAMJAM
Kultursommer 2020
Performance venue for Vienna's Kultursommer 2020 – © JAMJAM
Kultursommer 2020, stage on a square, rendering
Artist Corner of Kultursommer 2020 – it could look like this. – © JAMJAM
Empress Elisabeth "Sisi" and Emperor Franz Joseph as marionettes.
© Roman Gerhardt
Kultursommer 2020
Design of a performance venue for Vienna's Kultursommer 2020 – © JAMJAM
Kultursommer 2020
Performance venue for Vienna's Kultursommer 2020 – © JAMJAM
Kultursommer 2020, stage on a square, rendering
Artist Corner of Kultursommer 2020 – it could look like this. – © JAMJAM
Empress Elisabeth "Sisi" and Emperor Franz Joseph as marionettes.
© Roman Gerhardt

Music Film Festival on City Hall Square

Until September 6, Vienna City Hall Square is once again a popular open-air meeting place for night owls and music lovers – due to coronavirus #soWIENie (#VIENNAlikeneverbefore): with separate cinema and dining areas. "Please reserve" is the motto, admission to the Music Film Festival is free!

Danube Island Festival

The longest Danube Island Festival ever is on until September 20. The #dif20 tour bus stops in all of Vienna's 23 districts on its 80-day summer tour – with 100 acts by Austrian artists. For the grand finale, there will be three shows on the Danube Island festival stage.

Music Film Festival at City Hall
The screen in 2020 is the same as it was in 2019, but where there were 5,200 seats every evening, this year there are 500 for the cinema and 500 for the dining area. – © WienTourismus / Christian Stemper
Danube Island Festival 2019, view of the stage, illuminated in red
Act at the Danube Island Festival 2019: the big stage will be there for the 2020 finale. – © Alexander Müller www.alexandermüller.at
Music Film Festival at City Hall
The screen in 2020 is the same as it was in 2019, but where there were 5,200 seats every evening, this year there are 500 for the cinema and 500 for the dining area. – © WienTourismus / Christian Stemper
Danube Island Festival 2019, view of the stage, illuminated in red
Act at the Danube Island Festival 2019: the big stage will be there for the 2020 finale. – © Alexander Müller www.alexandermüller.at

Albertina

Albertinaplatz 1
1010 Vienna

  • Vienna City Card

    • Your benefit with the Vienna City Card: -17%

      Additional information on the offer: Standard ticket price: 16,9€

  • Opening times

    • Mo, 10:00 - 18:00
    • Tu, 10:00 - 18:00
    • We, 10:00 - 18:00
    • Th, 10:00 - 18:00
    • Fr, 10:00 - 18:00
    • Sa, 10:00 - 18:00
    • Su, 10:00 - 18:00
    • on holidays, 10:00 - 18:00

  • Accessibility

    • Main entrance
      • no steps (Doppelschwingtüre 190 cm wide)
    • Elevator available
      • Door 150 cm wide
    • Further information
      • Seeing eye dogs allowed
      • Wheelchair accessible restroom available.
    • Special offers for people with disabilities

      Wheelchair rental (prior arrangement necessary: Tel. +43 1 534 83–540). Guided tours in sign language available (prior arrangement necessary: Tel. +43 1 534 83–540). 
 Guided tours for blind people available as well as for people with slight to moderate dementia and their escorts (prior arrangement necessary: Tel. +43 1 534 83–540).
 Please inform Art Mediation department about wheelchair uses in advance. Reduced admission for persons with special needs

    • Comments

      Access to all exhibition rooms, to the restaurant / café and to the Shop: no steps. All rooms are wheelchair-accessible.

      Wheelchair-accessible restrooms on levels 1 and -1, restroom on level 1: door width: 90cm, room dimensions: 180 x 110 cm.

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Upper Belvedere (Oberes Belvedere)

Prinz-Eugen-Straße 27
1030 Vienna

  • Comments

    • Please note: Groups of 10 or more people, you must make an appointment for a tour with the Upper Belvedere in advance. There is no charge for this. You can contact the reservation team at the Belvedere by email or telephone.
      Monday to Sunday, 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
      Email:
      Telephone: +43 1 795 57-333

  • Vienna City Card

    • Your benefit with the Vienna City Card: -9%

      Additional information on the offer: Standard ticket price: 16€ Klimt ticket (Upper and Lower Belvedere): 21,5€ instead of 24€

  • Opening times

    • Mo, 10:00 - 18:00
    • Tu, 10:00 - 18:00
    • We, 10:00 - 18:00
    • Th, 10:00 - 18:00
    • Fr, 10:00 - 18:00
    • Sa, 10:00 - 18:00
    • Su, 10:00 - 18:00

    • Opening hours from Nov. 2 to March 22: Tues-Sun from 10am to 6pm, Mon closed.

  • Accessibility

    • Main entrance
      • no steps (Schwingtüre 102 cm wide)
    • Car parks Main entrance
      • Parking spaces for people with disabilities
        Parking space for visitors with disabilities in front of the entrance at Prinz-Eugen-Strasse 27, Parking: 10 am – 6 pm
    • Elevator available
      • Door 150 cm wide
    • Further information
      • Seeing eye dogs allowed
      • Wheelchair accessible restroom available.
    • Special offers for people with disabilities

      Reduced admission for persons with special needs and their escorts (3 Euro each). "Seeing differently" tours (tactile tours) in the Upper Belvedere: The tours with picture descriptions and tactile support are particularly suitable for blind and visually impaired visitors.
 Multimedia guides with videos in Austrian Sign Language (OGS) are available to deaf and hearing impaired visitors. Over 30 videos provide information on selected works of the collection in the Upper Belvedere and on the palace and garden complex as well as the history of the Belvedere.

    • Comments

      2 elevators reachable via a ramp (staff will provide assistance), wheelchairs available at the cloakroom.
      Shop/café: a few steps (staff will provide assistance).

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Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum)

Maria-Theresien-Platz
1010 Vienna

  • Vienna City Card

    • Your benefit with the Vienna City Card: -6%

      Additional information on the offer: Standard ticket price: 18€ Audioguide 5€ instead of 6€

  • Opening times

    • Tu - Su, 10:00 - 18:00
    • Th, 10:00 - 21:00

    • Open daily from June to August

  • Accessibility

    • Main entrance
      • 5 Steps (Doppelschwingtüre 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.

      http://www.khm.at/en/learn/kunstvermittlung/inclusive-art-education

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MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna

Stubenring 5
1010 Vienna

  • Vienna City Card

    • Your benefit with the Vienna City Card: -21%

      Additional information on the offer: Standard ticket price: 14€ 5% off at MAK Design Shop

  • Opening times

    • Tu, 10:00 - 21:00
    • We, 10:00 - 18:00
    • Th, 10:00 - 18:00
    • Fr, 10:00 - 18:00
    • Sa, 10:00 - 18:00
    • Su, 10:00 - 18:00

  • Accessibility

    • Further information
      • Seeing eye dogs allowed
      • Wheelchair accessible restroom available.
    • Comments

      Elevator to the exhibition rooms.

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mumok – Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna in the MuseumsQuartier

Museumsplatz 1
1070 Vienna

  • Vienna City Card

    • Your benefit with the Vienna City Card: -20%

      Additional information on the offer: Standard ticket price: 13€

  • Opening times

    • Mo, 14:00 - 19:00
    • Tu, 10:00 - 19:00
    • We, 10:00 - 19:00
    • Th, 10:00 - 21:00
    • Fr, 10:00 - 19:00
    • Sa, 10:00 - 19:00
    • Su, 10:00 - 19:00

  • Accessibility

    • Main entrance
      • no steps (Schwingtüre 120 cm wide)
    • Further information
      • Wheelchair accessible restroom available.
    • Comments

      Main and side entrance as well as restaurant/café: accessible via elevator.

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Naturhistorisches Museum Vienna (Natural History Museum)

Maria-Theresien-Platz
1010 Vienna

  • Vienna City Card

    • Your benefit with the Vienna City Card: -17%

      Additional information on the offer: Standard ticket price: 12€ Rooftop tour: 8€/person

  • Prices

    • Visitors under 19: Free admission

  • Opening times

    • Mo, 09:00 - 18:30
    • We, 09:00 - 21:00
    • Th, 09:00 - 18:30
    • Fr, 09:00 - 18:30
    • Sa, 09:00 - 18:30
    • Su, 09:00 - 18:30

  • Guided tours

    • Roof Tour whole year (German)

      • Wednesday 6.30 p.m.
      • Sunday 4 p.m.

      Roof Tour April - December (German)

      • Friday and Saturday 4 p.m.

      Roof Tour whole year (English)

      • Sunday 3 p.m.

      Roof Tour April - December (English)

      • Friday and Saturday 3 p.m.

  • Accessibility

    • Main entrance
      • (Schwingtüre )
        "two-lane" ramp, each lane 35 cm wide
    • Side entrance

      • "two-lane" ramp, each lane 35 cm wide
    • Elevator available
      • Door 78 cm wide
    • Further information
      • Seeing eye dogs allowed
      • Wheelchair accessible restroom available.
    • Special offers for people with disabilities

      Guided tours for the blind are possible, special tour for the blind on the audio guide and a brochure in Braille are available.

    • Comments

      Access to restaurant/café: no steps. Seeing-eye dogs permitted in exhibition area.

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Austrian National Library (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)

Josefsplatz 1
1010 Vienna

  • Vienna City Card

    • Your benefit with the Vienna City Card: -13%

      Additional information on the offer: Standard ticket price: 8€

  • Opening times

    • Tu, 10:00 - 18:00
    • We, 10:00 - 18:00
    • Th, 10:00 - 21:00
    • Fr, 10:00 - 18:00
    • Sa, 10:00 - 18:00
    • Su, 10:00 - 18:00

  • Accessibility

    • Elevator available
      • Door 90 cm wide
    • Further information
      • Seeing eye dogs allowed
      • Wheelchair accessible restroom available.
    • Special offers for people with disabilities

      Guided tours for visitors with disabilities and special needs on prior arrangement.

    • Comments

      Main entrance on first floor and access to Grand Hall on second floor: entrance Josefsplatz.

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Vienna Museum of Technology (Technisches Museum Wien)

Mariahilfer Straße 212
1140 Vienna

  • Vienna City Card

    • Your benefit with the Vienna City Card: -20%

      Additional information on the offer: Standard ticket price: 14€

  • Opening times

    • Mo, 09:00 - 18:00
    • Tu, 09:00 - 18:00
    • We, 09:00 - 18:00
    • Th, 09:00 - 18:00
    • Fr, 09:00 - 18:00
    • Sa, 10:00 - 18:00
    • Su, 10:00 - 18:00
    • on holidays, 10:00 - 18:00

  • Accessibility

    • Main entrance
      • no steps (Doppelschwingtüre 160 cm wide)
    • Car parks Main entrance
      • Parking spaces for people with disabilities
    • Elevator available
      • Door 88 cm wide
    • Further information
      • Seeing eye dogs allowed
      • Wheelchair accessible restroom available.
    • Special offers for people with disabilities

      Free admission to the museum for visitors with special needs.
 Rental wheelchairs available, special tours for people with disabilities and special needs, tours for visitors with special needs on request, translator for the hearing-impaired available on request (Reservations: Tel. +43 1 899 98–3001).

    • Comments

      All rooms accessible with special wheelchair elevators (ask museum staff for assistance).

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Marionette Theater at Schönbrunn Palace

Schloss Schönbrunn, Hofratstrakt
1130 Vienna

  • Vienna City Card

    • Your benefit with the Vienna City Card: -10%

      Additional information on the offer: With Cash 10%With Credit Card 5%

  • Opening times

    • daily, 11:00 - 00:00

  • Accessibility

    • Main entrance
      • 4 Steps (Doppelschwingtüre 125 cm wide)
      • Ramp 200 cm long , 50 cm high
    • Car parks Main entrance
      • 2 Parking spaces for people with disabilities
    • Further information
      • Seeing eye dogs allowed
      • 9 Wheelchair spaces available (in the first row)
      • Wheelchair accessible restroom available.
    • Comments

      No elevator available. Seeing-eye dogs permitted (prior arrangement).

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Metropol Theaterverein Wiener Metropol

Hernalser Hauptstraße 55
1170 Vienna
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Theater im Park am Belvedere

Prinz-Eugen-Straße/Ecke Plößlgasse
1030 Vienna
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Theater am Spittelberg

Spittelberggasse 10
1070 Vienna
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City Hall Square

Rathausplatz
1010 Vienna
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Danube Island

Donauinsel
1220 Vienna
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