YOUR PERSONAL Augmented reality tour guide

Silver Arrow, Super 8 or Sisi’s royal railway carriage? You may have heard and known about these things, but they have slipped your mind and you have never actually seen them in real life?

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At the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Museum of Science and Technology), you will find more than 20,000 objects from numerous fields of technology. Aided by a virtual robot, our mobile guide will unerringly lead you to each and every one of our objects, no matter how small or big they may be, across an exhibition space of 22,000 m2.
  • Experience technology!
Explore our exhibitions according to your personal interests. Our app constantly reveals new aspects and further details of the exhibitions, giving you full access to our complete knowledge database in our online collection.
           
  • Virtual tours
Feel like taking a spontaneous tour of the museum? No problem! A steadily growing selection of curated guided tours is at your fingertips in real time. Our virtual robot YOUR-I will lead you directly to the objects by the shortest route. Or would you prefer a tour tailored to your personal interests? Browse through our database and create your very own list of objects: Our virtual colleague will be happy to take you to them. The tours are available in English and German.
 
  • Overview and information in real time
Where am I? How do I get to the next baby-care room? When does the next guided tour of the mine start and are there any tickets left? The app provides you with all this information. It displays your position on a 2D map and keeps you informed about current educational events.

  • Attractive savings with the app TMW ToGo
When you log in to our app, you will receive a one-time discount of 10% on admissions and educational programs for your online purchase on our website. It's as simple as this: Add the desired products to your shopping cart, copy the discount code and redeem it as a "voucher code”.

 

TIP: The App with the license to save!

If you download our new app TMW ToGo and register, you will receive a one-time discount of 10% on the admission fee and event tickets as a welcome gift.

And here's how it works: Copy the voucher code – you can find it in the app menu under "Promotions" - and then redeem it in the shopping cart under "Voucher code" on our website.


Overview of all tours

Highlights of the Museum
Overview

Highlights of the Museum

Adults
8 Chapter
60 min
Rolling, flying or standing - huge, tiny, ancient or new - fully, partly or not at all functional - the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Museum of Science and Technology) showcases a great variety of exhibits. They are materialised stories that are still on our minds today. They tell history - and made history.
Tour - Highlights for limited mobility
Overview

Tour - Highlights for limited mobility

Adults
7 Chapter
60 min
There are honking horns, hissing steam, flying sparks and ghostly sounds. Experience the diversity of technology on this highlight tour
What languages do musical instruments speak?
Special Interest

What languages do musical instruments speak?

Adults
5 Chapter
60 min
Long before the computer was invented, it was possible to have musical instruments play automatically. Whether pinned barrels, punched cards, piano rolls or digital MIDI files - the basic principle of notation for mechanical musical instruments has hardly changed over the centuries of their evolution.
In Honour of Empress Elisabeth
Special Interest

In Honour of Empress Elisabeth

Adults
6 Chapter
60 min
Empress Elisabeth already fascinated contemporaries in her lifetime and, even today, her person and her myth capture the imagination of many people. During her lifetime, mobility in the Danube Monarchy saw a rapid change and feats of craftsmanship were accomplished “in honour of the empress”. The empress presented herself as a user of “modern technology” by having the “Hofsalonwagen” (royal railway carriage) built for her personal use. In this tour, objects of the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Museum of Science and Technology) are illuminated from a different perspective by taking a look at the life and times of the empress.
Technology, Fun and Magic
Overview

Technology, Fun and Magic

Children
7 Chapter
45 min
There are locomotives, cars and computers at the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Museum of Science and Technology). That’s pretty obvious at a glance. However, technology is so much more than that! Sometimes it actually resembles an animal, looks like real magic or even talks to us. Come and join us on an adventurous journey through the colourful world of the Technisches Museum Wien. Let’s go!
Beyond of Europe - Out of Europe
Special Interest

Beyond of Europe - Out of Europe

Adults
8 Chapter
60 min
European stories of raw materials, production and consumption have been told many times. For several centuries, however, other continents have also substantially contributed to the wealth of the “Western world” with their resources, workforce and production know-how, often by making enormous sacrifices. Telling this story as well is now more necessary than ever, in particular in view of the ongoing discussion about the return of museum holdings that found their way to Europe under suspicious circumstances.
Digitalisation
Special Interest

Digitalisation

Adults
7 Chapter
60 min
What is digitalisation? How does it work? And what is beneath the surface? This tour places a focus on the history of digitalisation and its impact on society. The computer, a device that processes data by means of programmable calculation rules, has been around for a long time, since the 19th century. However, digital systems and algorithms have been known even longer. They do not necessarily require a computer. Let’s start our tour with one of the founders of digital thinking and scientific programming, the remarkable Ada Countess of Lovelace.
Gender&Technology
Special Interest

Gender&Technology

Adults
4 Chapter
45 min
A tour devoted to gender at the Technisches Museum Wien (Vienna Museum of Science and Technology)? Gender and technology: What do they have to do with each other? One thing is clear: Natural sciences and technology and the description of their past, present and future belong in the TMW: But it is also clear that the basic knowledge about it cannot be seen separately from our daily lives and our cultural and social beliefs. This also includes the gender relations and, in particular, the notions of femininity and masculinity. When taking a journey through the history of technology, we usually encounter male inventors, researchers and pioneers. This raises a lot of questions: Are technologies “male” per se? What presuppositions and stereotypes about genders are incorporated in the construction, production, design and use of technology? Does this happen consciously or unconsciously? What can a closer look at technology reveal about concepts of gender in the mirror of time? Who makes technology - and for whom? This tour shows that technology and those who develop and use it are just as diverse as the human perceptions thereof.
Vienna around 1900 – That’s How the City Works
Special Interest

Vienna around 1900 – That’s How the City Works

Adults
6 Chapter
45 min
What technical requirements are needed for a big city like Vienna to work? The following audio tour explains how the foundations for this were laid around 1900. The infrastructure created at that time is still the backbone of urban development in the metropolis of two million inhabitants.
Female pioneers of electronic music
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Female pioneers of electronic music

Erwachsene_r
7 Chapter
60 min
Is electronic music a male domain? That’s the big question. The answer is: Not really, it just seems that way at first glance. Many women played a leading role in the development of electronic music. Women established studios, developed sounds and designed instruments to realise their ideas.
Space travel

Space travel

Erwachsene_r
11 Chapter
60 min
Space travel has an impact on many areas of our daily life today. The following audio tour is designed to provide an insight into the current developments in space travel and to also illuminate the role of Austria and Austrian businesses in the field of satellite and rocket technology.
Energy Transition
Special Interest

Energy Transition

Adults
20 Chapter
60 min
Welcome to the exhibition “Energy Transition. A Race against Time”! A quick look at the façade reveals the motto of the exhibition: Time to act. The hunger for energy and the downright wasteful use of it are responsible for the climate catastrophe. At first glance, this hunger is hard to reconcile with Austria’s declared goal of becoming climate-neutral by 2040. The exhibition therefore invites you to immerse yourself in the subject on five levels and to explore the problems, strategies and solutions. A look into the future at the end of the exhibition shows: The energy transition is doable. But only if we act quickly.
An Intersectional Energy Transition
Special Interest

An Intersectional Energy Transition

Adults
13 Chapter
60 min
How can our future be not just climate-neutral but climate-just? The energy transition is considered a fundamental system change. It therefore strongly depends on given social structures— such as Capitalism and the Patriarchy. The imbalances they create mean that not everyone gets an equal opportunity to participate in the climate transition. In order to fully understand the effects of climate change and possible countermeasures against it, it is necessary to take an intersectional approach. It guarantees that the various existing types of discrimination based on gender, class and ethnicity are considered together. And it takes into account how their interdependence creates new forms of discrimination.