Programme for Schools & Kindergartens | Vienna Museum of Science & Technology

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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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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View of the special exhibition "Energy transition – a race against time" in TMW 2 2:

School-Programme:
energy transition

Discover here the educational programs we offer in connection with the current special exhibition Energy Transition. Race against time.

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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.

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.

A comic drawing showing an interior of a space habitat and a view from its window on a planet, where it's situated:

This is (not) Rocket Science!

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.

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 .

Workshop

Sustainability

How does a generator actually work? And how can wind energy be converted into electrical energy with the help of a generator?

Kindergarten & School

6–13 Grade

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.

Kindergarten & School

6–13 Grade

Guide

People & Society

A home for technology

In search of the historical and present identity of the Technisches Museum Wien, this guided tour shows the building as a visible external and internal statement. It places a focus on details that are easily overlooked and presents the museum from a different perspective.

Kindergarten & School

9–13 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!

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.

Kindergarten & School

9–13 Grade

Online Programme

Digitalisation

Artificial intelligence?

This online tour presents the subject of “Artificial intelligence?” from various perspectives.

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?

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.

Kindergarten & School

5–10 Grade

Guide

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?

Kindergarten & School

6–13 Grade

Guide

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.

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.

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?

Kindergarten & School

1–4 Grade

Guide

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)!

Kindergarten & School

2–13 Grade

Guide

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?

Kindergarten & School

6–13 Grade

Modell Stockholmer Bahnhof: Inv. Nr. ZDS-UE-0201-A

Guide

Sustainability

Energy: Please turn around!

Is a switch to renewable energies possible in times of the climate and energy crisis and how can this work? We address these questions in the guided tour of the current special exhibition.

Kindergarten & School

7–13 Grade

Guide

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!

Kindergarten & School

Kindergarten & Preschool
1–8 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.

Kindergarten & School

7–13 Grade

Guide

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!

Kindergarten & School

Kindergarten & Preschool
1–4 Grade

Guide

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.

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.

Kindergarten & School

2–13 Grade

Guide

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!

Kindergarten & School

7–13 Grade

Guide

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!

Kindergarten & School

Kindergarten & Preschool
1–8 Grade

Guide

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?

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.

Kindergarten & School

6–13 Grade

Guide

People & Society

No borders? Technology and migration

What would it be like to live in a different country? Who has ever thought about that? Or has actually lived in another country?

Kindergarten & School

9–13 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.

Kindergarten & School

6–13 Grade

Guide

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?

Kindergarten & School

2–6 Grade

Guide

Media history

New

Radio – cinema of the mind

How does radio work? Who makes radio today and who shaped radio 100 years ago? What was broadcast and who listens/listened to it? Will there still be radio in the future? These questions will be discussed in this dialogue-based tour about the development and use of an auditory technology in the context of social change in Austria.

Kindergarten & School

8–13 Grade

Guide

Digitalisation

Robot, are you doing my work?

The language of robots – can it be learnt?

Kindergarten & School

1–4 Grade

Modell Stockholmer Bahnhof: Inv. Nr. ZDS-UE-0201-A

Guide

Sustainability

SDGs - From knowledge to action

With the goal of enabling sustainable development at an economic, social and environmental level, the United Nations have defined 17 development goals referred to as SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). The TMW (Vienna Museum of Science and Technology) builds bridges between historical objects and current issues regarding sustainable development. This guided tour encourages visitors to think about how technology can contribute to keeping our world liveable for the future.

Kindergarten & School

7–13 Grade

Online Programme

Sustainability

SDGS – From Questions and Knowledge to Action

This online tour connects historical and contemporary objects of the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Museum of Science and Technology) with the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals. Based on these goals, current issues are addressed while answering the question of whether and to what extent technology helps make the world more sustainable.

Kindergarten & School

7–13 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.

Kindergarten & School

5–8 Grade

Guide

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.

Kindergarten & School

5–13 Grade

Workshop

Research

The crazy laboratory

All children can become scientists and explorers – in our “crazy laboratory”!

Kindergarten & School

Kindergarten & Preschool
1 Grade

Guide

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!

Kindergarten & School

5–13 Grade

Guide

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!

Kindergarten & School

2–6 Grade

Guide

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.

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.

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.

Kindergarten & School

9–13 Grade

Teenagers & Adults

Kindergarten & School