Donau City
Excursion for blind and visually impaired people
Donau City is situated directly above a freeway. It was roofed over with concrete slabs so that buildings could be erected here. In some places…
Az W Collection for All – Guided tour of the permanent exhibition, for blind and visually impaired people as part of the Vienna Art Week 2023
© photograph: eSeL.at
Feel models, touch surfaces, experience the atmosphere acoustically – this is what is offered by an architectural guided tour with the Architekturzentrum Wien for blind and visually impaired people.
Embark on the scouting expedition equipped with floor plans in Braille and tactile scale models, architectural features and the history of the completion of the projects are explained in more detail. Tactile models of the entire complexes or individual homes help participants of the guided tour to form a clearer impression of the scale and the proportions of the spaces described.
Blind or visually impaired people can book tours of the MuseumsQuartier, the Karl-Marx-Hof, the Gasometers, the Donau-City, the Kabelwerk or the Gänsehäufel at any time at: office@azw.at.
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Barrier-free Excursion
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Barrier-free Excursion
Gänsehäufel
Excursion for blind and visually impaired poeple
The approx. 150 year old riverside bathing facility, converted in the 1940s, is situated on an island on the Alte Donau. The architects Max Fellerer…
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Barrier-free Excursion
Gasometer
Excursion for blind and visually impaired people
In 1896 the City of Vienna built the gasometers in the style of industrial architecture – a gasometer is a gas storage tank. They have…
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Barrier-free Excursion
Kabelwerk
Excursion for blind and visually impaired people
A new City District has been developed on the grounds of the former Kabelwerk factory in Wien-Meidling on the basis of what is a unique…
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Barrier-free Excursion
Karl-Marx-Hof
Excursion for blind and visually impaired people
Karl-Marx-Hof is, with a length of 1.2km, one of the largest and most famous buildings in Vienna. As an icon of Socialist Vienna’s housing developments…
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Barrier-free Excursion
MuseumsQuartier
Excursion for blind and visually impaired people
Summer can hardly be imagined today without the MuseumsQuartier and all of its museums, dance and youth theatres and pavement cafés. This has not always…
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Barrier-free Excursion
The Vienna Ringstraße
Excursion in easily understandable language
The aim of the tour is for participants to get to know the city, exchange ideas and be open to new subject matter, come closer…