Wien Museum

Om museet

The Wien Museum was founded in 1887 as the Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien and from 1888 showed its first display collection in the new town hall. The core consisted of weapons, armour and trophies from the Bürgerliches Zeughaus (civic arsenal). Plans for a building of its own – including Otto Wagner’s famous designs for Karlsplatz – failed over decades.

Only in 1959 did the new building designed by Oswald Haerdtl in the style of moderate modernism open on Karlsplatz, the first new museum building of the Second Republic. In 2002 the museum was spun off from the city administration and given the name Wien Museum; the group today includes numerous other sites such as the Hermesvilla, the Roman Museum or the musicians’ memorial sites.

Following an architectural competition in 2015, the listed building was renovated to plans by Certov, Winkler+Ruck and extended with a striking glass and concrete superstructure. Since its reopening on 6 December 2023, the free permanent exhibition “Wien. Meine Geschichte” has shown about 1,700 objects on around 3,300 square metres across three floors – from prehistoric finds and the original figures of the Donnerbrunnen and the large model of St. Stephen’s Cathedral to Klimt’s portrait of Emilie Flöge and the Prater whale “Poldi”. Special exhibitions take place on the fourth floor, and a freely accessible terrace offers a view over the city centre.

Højdepunkter

• Free permanent exhibition “Wien. Meine Geschichte”
• Gustav Klimt’s portrait of Emilie Flöge
• Model of St. Stephen’s Cathedral, about five and a half metres high
• Original figures of the Donnerbrunnen
• Prater whale “Poldi”
• Freely accessible terrace with a view of the city centre

Permanent udstilling

• Wien. Meine Geschichte – Chronological tour through the city’s history from prehistoric times to the present across three floors, with large collection objects in the central hall and over 100 media stations.

Grundlagt

1887

Ejer

Museen der Stadt Wien – Wien Museum

Entrépriser & rabatter

Der er gratis entré.

Gratis entré: Free admission on the first Sunday of every month, including to the special exhibitions.

The permanent exhibition “Wien. Meine Geschichte” is free and accessible without a ticket; waiting times are possible when it is busy. Free admission to the special exhibitions with an annual pass, ICOM Card and Kulturpass (“Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur”). Cloakroom, digital guide and museum basket are free.

Tilgængelighed

• Kørestolsvenlig
• Elevator
• Handicaptoilet
• Handicapparkering
• Servicehunde tilladt
• Taktile tilbud
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog
• Letlæste tilbud
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

All areas reachable without steps, tactile floor guidance system from the U-Bahn exits at Karlsplatz to the entrance, all lifts suitable for wheelchairs. Accessible toilets on all floors as well as a “Toilet for All” with a changing couch and ceiling hoist on the lower level (also without a ticket). Free loan wheelchairs (reservation via service@wienmuseum.at), induction loops, tactile objects, texts in Braille and large print, Sensory Bag to borrow. Digital guide also in Easy Language and Austrian Sign Language; group tours in Easy Language, as a tactile tour or with ÖGS interpreter can be booked. Disabled parking at Maderstraße 2 and Resselgasse 2.

Børn og familie

Velegnet til børn og familier

• Familieomvisninger & workshops
• Opgavehæfte, skattejagt eller audioguide for børn
• Interaktive stationer
• Barnevognsvenlig
• Puslerum

Free children’s and family programmes: open studio without registration, workshops and holiday activities in the studios on the terrace level. Museum basket for families with children aged 3 and over with role-play tasks, free at the visitor information desk. Depending on how busy it is, pushchairs may be taken into the exhibition or left in the pavilion; changing tables on all floors.

Transport & parkering

Bicycle parking to the left of the main entrance and on Symphonikerstraße. Main entrances without steps on the sides of the pavilion.

Service & spisesteder

• Café
• Restaurant
• Museumsbutik
• Garderobe
• Opbevaringsskabe
• Wi-fi

Restaurant “trude” on the ground floor with a beer garden on the forecourt (Tuesday–Sunday), kiosk “& töchter” on the terrace level. Museum shop in the foyer; cloakroom in the foyer, lockers on the lower level; free Wi-Fi. Food brought from outside is allowed in the pavilion and on the terrace level.

Arrangementer & udlejning

• Lokaler til leje
• Private fester
• Firmaarrangementer

Available for hire are, among others, the Freiraum with the entire terrace and the Große Saal with a small terrace on the third floor for receptions, conferences, gala dinners and celebrations; filming permits also available. Contact: events@wienmuseum.at.

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