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The MAK on Stubenring is Vienna's museum of design and applied arts. It shows what furniture, glass, porcelain and textiles looked like long before the word design existed. The museum was founded in 1863.
Yes, if you're interested in how Vienna lived and designed around 1900. The MAK has large holdings from the Wiener Werkstätte (the Vienna Workshop design collective), as well as furniture by Thonet and Kohn. Gustav Klimt's designs for the Palais Stoclet are also here. The collection extends to Venetian glass and Japanese color woodblock prints.
The MAK Design Lab also has a replica of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky's Frankfurt Kitchen.
Admission costs €18 online and €19 on site. Reduced tickets are €14.50 online and €15.50 on site. On Tuesdays from 18:00 to 21:00 you pay only €8.50 online. You can compare all prices on our page of admission prices in Vienna.
The MAK is closed on Mondays. On Tuesdays it is open from 10:00 to 21:00, and from Wednesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00. Tuesday evening is the cheapest time to visit.
Take the U3 or tram line 2 to Stubentor. Alternatively, take the U3 or U4 to Landstraße. All levels of the main building and the exhibition building can be reached by a wheelchair-accessible elevator. Assistance dogs are welcome.
The museum was founded on March 7, 1863, as the Imperial Royal Austrian Museum of Art and Industry. Heinrich von Ferstel designed the building on the Ringstrasse in the Neo-Renaissance style. It opened on November 15, 1871, and the museum has been at this address ever since.
Come on a Tuesday after 18:00. For €8.50 you have three hours, and afterward you can sit down for a coffee at the Prückel across the street.
Admission costs €18 online and €19 on site. Reduced tickets are €14.50 online and €15.50 on site. Tuesday evening is the cheapest: from 18:00 to 21:00 you pay only €8.50 online.
The museum is closed on Mondays. On Tuesdays it is open from 10:00 to 21:00, and from Wednesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00. On the late Tuesday opening you pay the reduced evening price from 18:00.
Applied arts and design: large holdings from the Wiener Werkstätte, furniture by Thonet and Kohn, Klimt's designs for the Palais Stoclet, glass, porcelain and Japanese color woodblock prints. The Design Lab has a replica of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky's Frankfurt Kitchen.
Yes. All levels of the main building and the exhibition building can be reached by a wheelchair-accessible passenger elevator. There is a disabled parking space at Weiskirchnerstraße 3. Assistance dogs are welcome in the museum.
Take the U3 or tram line 2 to the Stubentor stop. Alternatively, take the U3 or U4 to Landstraße and walk a few minutes. The museum is at Stubenring 5, opposite Café Prückel.
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