With interactive workshops, exciting guided tours and comprehensive learning materials, we offer the ideal complement to lessons for all age groups. Learning becomes child's play!

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Tel.: +43-1-89998-3001


Summer opening hours

6 July – 6 September,
Monday–Sunday, public holidays 10:00–18:00


View of the permanent exhibition "Mobility" with spectacular exhibits from the history of transport: View of the permanent exhibition "Mobility" with spectacular exhibits from the history of transport

School-Programme: Mobility

Discover the educational program available to schools for the new exhibition Mobility.
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Exhibition view of the area "Music Lounge":

School-Programme:
Music Lounge

Discover the educational programme available to schools for the new exhibition area Music Lounge. Electronic Music in Austria.
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Image photo: Close-up of printed workpiece in front of roadLAB:

roadLAB

Let's trade places. The Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Museum of Science and Technology) goes mobile, visiting schools and other educational institutions with an e-bus that is designed as a maker*space equipped with a 3D printer, laser cutter and much more. We bring everything with us, enabling the pupils to fully focus on tinkering and designing.
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Explainer with young people at the PCs in the "techLAB":

Online formats for schools

Virtual, individual and optimally supervised - the museum has also supplemented its school offerings with interesting online mediations. Here you will find interactive workshop formats on the topics of "digitization" and "media", which are designed live by our mediators.
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A comic drawing showing an interior of a space habitat and a view from its window on a planet, where it's situated:

Mission Control

By launching this research project, the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Museum of Science and Technology) offers a platform for investigating and co-designing future questions in space exploration.
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Programme FOR KINDERGARTENS & SCHOOLS
FROM A TO Z

Please note: events listed below are held in German. If you are interested in a programme held in English, please choose a tour or a workshop and contact us at .
 
Online Programme Digitalisation

3D printing for beginners

Printing your own 3D object is easier than you think! A 3D printer allows individual designs to be produced quickly and cost-effectively. 
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
6–13 Grade
Workshop Mobility

All aboard – the journey is about to begin!

Whether cars, steam locomotives or bicycles – at the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Museum of Science and Technology), you will find many different vehicles, both ancient and ultra-modern ones!
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
Kindergarten & Preschool
1 Grade
Workshop Digitalisation, Innovation

Artificial intelligence: Neural networks for beginners

What does artificial intelligence mean and what is a “neural network”? This workshop opens up the black box and explains how a neural network is created, trained and used. 
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
9–13 Grade
Online Programme Digitalisation

Artificial intelligence?

This online tour presents the subject of “Artificial intelligence?” from various perspectives.
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
6-13 Grade
Workshop Media history

Brushstroke and printing press. Techniques of letterpress printing

We travel 1,000 years back in time, where exciting adventures are waiting for the schoolchildren. What was monastic life like in medieval times and how were books and paper produced back then?
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
2–6 Grade
Workshop Sustainability

Clean energy

Is electric current actually eco-friendly? What kind of electricity is the best? How can we even tell? In this workshop, we take a closer look at the various forms of renewable energy.
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
5–10 Grade
Guided Tour Sustainability

Climate change – technological change

The climate on our planet is getting warmer. What are the consequences of this process? What causes these changes? Are we in a “climate crisis”? And if so, what can we do about it?
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
6–13 Grade
Guided Tour Sustainability
New

Climate – What’s next? Taking action!

Global climate change is now affecting our daily lives. Don't look away – face it. That’s the motto! This guided tour provides information on the climate crisis and suggestions on how we can take action.
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
7–13 Grade
Online Programme Digitalisation

Coding for beginners – level 1

Learning to code can be easy and fun!
In this workshop, you will learn how to control a microcontroller and electronic components using a self-developed programme. Prior experience is not necessary.
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
6–13 Grade
Guided Tour Digitalisation, Media history
New

Computers – did you count on this?

Computers are with us everywhere these days – at home, at school or on the go. To make them understand us, we have to “talk” to them. What roles do zeros and ones play in this? Join us to discover the fundamentals behind digital technologies!
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
2.-6. Grade
Workshop Sustainability
New

Design for circularity

In this techLAB workshop, you’ll discover how much responsibility goes into creating a product. Every day, the questions “How?”, “What?” and “From what?” shape the things we make – with consequences that have a direct impact on our planet.
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
6-13 Grade
Workshop Digitalisation

Digibot – tracking digital education

Most of us are familiar with robots that assist us humans – but how do they actually work?
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
1–4 Grade
Guided Tour Energy

Down the mine

How do people work underground? Together we explore the replica mine, accurate down to the smallest detail, underneath the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Museum of Science and Technology)!
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
2–13 Grade
Guided Tour Energy

Energy – from muscle power to power plant

Just plug it in and it all works. Many everyday items would be useless without electricity! But what was it like in former times? Who did all the work and how did machines function without electricity?
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
6–13 Grade
Guided Tour Mobility

Everything that has wings flies!

People have always dreamt of flying. Whether airplanes, helicopters or hot-air balloons, at the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Museum of Science and Technology), we have amazing stories to tell about any flying machine!
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
Kindergarten & Preschool
1–8 Grade
Workshop Sustainability

Future of wind power

How does a generator actually work? And how can wind energy be converted into electrical energy with the help of a generator?
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
6–13 Grade
Workshop Sustainability
New

Future Value: Climate

What values do young people believe the future should be built on? What do values have to do with the climate crisis? These and other questions will be addressed in the workshop accompanying the Climate. Knowledge. Action! exhibition.
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
7–13 Grade
Guided Tour Mobility
New

GOING TO SPACE

Would you like to fly to space? Or conduct research on a space station? Find out what it takes to get there in our guided tour!
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
Kindergarten & Preschool
1–4 Grade
Guided Tour Highlight

Guided tour of highlights

The Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Museum of Science and Technology) has been collecting exciting objects from the world of technology for more than 100 years. This guided tour presents some of the museum’s most valuable treasures and puts you in the mood for your own journey of discovery through the museum. 
 
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
5–13 Grade
Guide / Action Energy

High-voltage demonstration

Electricity in the air! An impressive show at the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Museum of Science and Technology) takes you on a trip through the world of electricity and current.
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
2–13 Grade
Guided Tour Research

How we know what we know

How does science work? What methods, equipment or data form the basis for creating new knowledge? What does the work of scientists actually involve? On this guided tour, we explore the world of research through examples from physics, astronomy and brain research.
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
6–13 Grade
Guided Tour People & Society

Ingenious women

Science and research have also always been the domain of women. However, this has often been concealed by historians. Find out more about the discoveries and inventions of these women!
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
7–13 Grade
Guided Tour Sustainability
New

It’s worth it! Opportunities in the circular economy

Waste is a thing of the past! Today, the focus is on extending the life cycles of products. This guided tour explores the solutions and challenges of the circular economy – from everyday consumer habits to innovative technology.
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
6–13 Grade
Guided Tour Material Worlds
New

Light as air or hard as steel

What materials can do: Pedals, a saddle and handlebars come together to form a whole bicycle. But what is each part made of, and how are these components manufactured?
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
2–6 Grade
Guided Tour Everyday life

Living then and now

How did people live around 1900? Join us on a journey back in time and experience what everyday life was like 100 years ago! 
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
Kindergarten & Preschool
1–8 Grade
Guided Tour Material Worlds
New

Material Worlds – the building blocks of our world

What lies within the objects that surround us every day? Which materials form the foundation of the products we use daily? And what path do these raw materials take – from their extraction from nature, through industrial processing, to the finished object?
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
6–13 Grade
Guided Tour Media history

Media history – from clay tablets to the Internet

Whether newspapers, radio, television, Internet or mobile phones – information and media have become an integral part of our daily lives. But how did people exchange information and news in the past?
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
2–13 Grade
Guided Tour Music

Music in the air

Physics, history and entertainment – the guided tour of the collection of musical instruments offers it all. How is sound generated? How does it reach the ear? What is sound? We answer all these questions in a melodious tour.
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
2–13 Grade
Workshop Music

Music production for beginners

Thanks to digitalisation, producing your own music is very easy today.
Whereas in the past, musicians, sound engineers and expensive equipment were needed, today, some interest, perseverance and a computer are often all it takes to produce your own music.
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
6–13 Grade
Package deal “buy 2 get 1 free”: Microcontroller programming for beginners
Online Programme

Package deal “buy 2 get 1 free”: Microcontroller programming for beginners

Three “Coding for beginners – level 1, 2 and 3” online workshops for the price of two.
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
6–13 Grade
Guided Tour Sustainability

Plastic fantastic? Reusable, synthetic, problematic

Plastic has become an integral part of our daily lives. What is plastic made of? And what happens to plastic once we have used it? 
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
2–6 Grade
Workshop Sustainability
New

Reduce, reuse, recycle

How many things do we really need? How are they made? And what becomes of them when they lose their value to us? In the workshop on the exhibition More than Recycling, we want to get to the bottom of these questions.
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
7–13 Grade
Guided Tour Digitalisation

Robot, are you doing my work?

The language of robots – can it be learnt?
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
1–4 Grade
Online Programme Media history

Showtime! Special effects in film

Green screen, performance capture and other special effects: Your class will learn about these and the oldest trick in film history in the online workshop and try them out hands-on. The students will find out how effects work in film and how the impossible becomes possible on screen.
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
5–8 Grade
Guided Tour Under the Spell of the Railway

Small railway, big time

Climb aboard and discover the exciting world of the railway with us – from then to now! Models large and small tell stories about technology, travel and a world that has become more connected thanks to the railway.

For the audience: Kindergarten & School
1–12 Grade
Guided Tour Music

Sound from electricity

Music straight from the socket? How do electronic music and electronic musical instruments work? What distinguishes them from other instruments and how is a sound produced? This interactive tour shows everything that can generate sounds using electricity as well as the technology behind it.
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
5–13 Grade
Workshop Research

The crazy laboratory

All children can become scientists and explorers – in our “crazy laboratory”!
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
Kindergarten & Preschool
1 Grade
Guided Tour People & Society

The industrial revolution

Never before in history did the world change so profoundly and rapidly as during the industrial revolution. We explain how and why!
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
5–13 Grade
Guided Tour Energy

The world of electricity

Whether washing machines, cookers or fridges – many everyday items would be useless without electricity. We take a look back in time to find out how electricity came into our homes!
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
2–6 Grade
Guided Tour Mobility

Travelling then and now

How did people travel in the past, before airplanes and cars were invented? On a journey through time, we experience the evolution of mobility.
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
Kindergarten & Preschool
1–8 Grade
Young people sit in a circle and hold their smartphones in the middle
Online Programme Media history

Universal tool mobile phone – a miracle gadget

With the spread of smartphones, the originally simple mobile phones turned into true universal tools. 
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
7–13 Grade
Workshop Media history
New

Waves that connect

“Ladies and gentlemen who are present and who are not”, Albert Einstein greeted the audience in his speech at the 7th German Radio and Audio Show in 1930. These words alluded to the fact that while not all listeners were physically present, they could still hear his voice over the radio from distant locations.
For the audience: Kindergarten & School
9–13 Grade