Kindergarten

Our interactive guided tours and workshops: applied and visionary!

An exciting journey to the history of life design awaits you - through the centuries to our present. In interactive guided tours and workshops we convey the world of artistic everyday design and the history of design. We deal with old and new materials as well as almost forgotten and innovative techniques and ask ourselves what makes an everyday object art. What do we want to learn from the past and how can we design the future in a way that a sustainable coexistence on and with our planet can succeed?

Today we are facing new challenges in our lives and our everyday life, especially the climate crisis plays a central role. Design can help us to change our future and also our coexistence with our planet and to stand up for biodiversity and diversity. In an interactive and playful tour through the MAK Design Lab, we will explore circular economy and solutions for sustainable consumption. After all, sharing opportunities, repairing things, and understanding old materials as resources can help us live together in a more sustainable way.

Our diverse range of workshops is aimed squarely at the designers of the future. Here you can not only learn handicraft skills, but also think creatively together. We experiment and try things out in an artistic and exploratory way!

Do you have a special topic in mind? We will gladly try to respond to your ideas individually or to combine guided tours and workshops individually.

We also have online school offerings that you can use to prepare and follow up on your lessons.

Education and Outreach

T +43 1 71136-298

education@MAK.at

Get in touch

3 to 6 years old

Lindsey Butterfield, Decorative Fabric with Vine Scrolls and Floral Motifs, London, 1895

On the Hunt for Wild Things!

Come and help us hunt for wild things! Lots of animals and wild creatures are hiding in the museum, just waiting to be discovered by intrepid explorers. But it’s not just them that you’ll find in the museumyou’ll also find the stories they tell.

1-hour guided tour
Topic: animals in the museum
Technique: search and tell
MAK Permanent Collection

You Know What I Think Is Beautiful?

Join us as we walk through the MAK’s permanent collection and ask ourselves what exhibits we find beautiful and why. Then we’ll make our own little books and fill them with drawings of our favorite things that we use every dayand we’ll prettify them in the process!

1.5-hour guided tour and workshop
Topic: beauty and design
Technique: paper and colored pencil
MAK Permanent Collection

The Wiener Werkstamps

After a guided tour of the Permanent Collection Vienna 1900, we’ll get up close and personal with the Wiener Werkstätte in our very own workshop. We’ll create a greeting card just like Art Nouveau designers did. Which means we’ll use special stamps that will help us invent the prettiest patterns.

1.5-hour guided tour and workshop
Topic: Wiener Werkstätte
Technique: stamps
MAK Permanent Collection Vienna 1900

Elementary School

Our interactive guided tours and workshops for schools: applied and visionary!

An exciting journey to the history of life design awaits you - through the centuries to our present. In interactive guided tours and workshops we convey the world of artistic everyday design and the history of design. We deal with old and new materials as well as almost forgotten and innovative techniques and ask ourselves what makes an everyday object art. What do we want to learn from the past and how can we design the future in a way that a sustainable coexistence on and with our planet can succeed?

Today we are facing new challenges in our lives and our everyday life, especially the climate crisis plays a central role. Design can help us to change our future and also our coexistence with our planet and to stand up for biodiversity and diversity. In an interactive and playful tour through the MAK Design Lab, we will explore circular economy and solutions for sustainable consumption. After all, sharing opportunities, repairing things, and understanding old materials as resources can help us live together in a more sustainable way.

Our diverse range of workshops is aimed squarely at the designers of the future. Here you can not only learn handicraft skills, but also think creatively together. We experiment and try things out in an artistic and exploratory way!

Do you have a special topic in mind? We will gladly try to respond to your ideas individually or to combine guided tours and workshops individually.

We also have online school offerings that you can use to prepare and follow up on your lessons.

Education and Outreach

T +43 1 71136-298

education@MAK.at

Get in touch

At the MAK this fall, it's all about fashion and sustainable consumption, glass, glamour & engraving, the history of pioneering women in art and design, and poster art!

Critical Consumption
An anti fast fashion guide to sustainable fashion

Here everything revolves around sustainable design strategies for clothing. In a guided tour through the exhibition CRITICAL CONSUMPTION, which is specially designed for students with interactive stations, we look at the textile industry and fashion, take a critical look at the fast fashion industry and learn about creative strategies for sustainable fashion consumption. What is the value of our clothing, what impact does our fashion consumption have on climate change and, most importantly, what solutions are there to try out for a sustainable and creative use of clothing?

6 to 19 years
€ 60,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
1 hour guided tour

The MAK Glass Production Theater
A performative workshop by MAK and POLKA Design

After a visit to the exhibition GLANZ UND GLAMOUR. 200 Years of Lobmeyr, which recreates the incredible diversity of glass art, you will transform yourselves into a performative glass factory. Some are the glass artists, others are turned, melted, dried and packaged by their fellow students.

10 to 19 years
€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop

Black and white photograph: It shows a white woman dressed in a black cape, laughing and wearing a hat.

Pioneers in the shadows and rebels of everyday life!
An interactive guided tour on gender, society and design.

At the MAK, everything revolves around design and the creative shaping of everyday life. But who actually designed our spaces and our everyday lives? And who are the rebels at the MAK? What have they done for all of us, and what do the brave bright minds of tomorrow look like? In a walk through the museum we will talk about special women like Gerti Fröhlich, Margarethe Schütte Lihotzky, Felice Rix and many other personalities who designed great things for our everyday life and how they contributed to equality. Discover them with us and at the same time discover the rebel in you!

6 to 19 years
€ 60,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
1 hour guided tour

Gustav Klimt, Cartoon “Knight” (detail), 1910/11

MAK Tour
Highlights of the MAK Collection

An exciting journey through the centuries to our present day awaits you. In the interactive MAK Tour, we immerse ourselves in an exciting dialogue between art and everyday life and convey the history of design - from craftsmanship to industrial design to innovative solutions of the 21st century. We look at old and innovative materials and techniques, historical and modern furniture design, reflect on the history of sitting, stroll through the top collection, let ourselves be impressed by extraordinary treasures such as jewelry, glass, porcelain or even cutlery, marvel at Gustav Klimt's Tree of Life and, of course, ask ourselves the question of what makes an object of everyday use art. Among other things, we will talk together about what we can learn from the past and how we can shape the future in such a way that sustainable coexistence on and with our planet can succeed.

€ 60,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
1 hour guided tour

MAK Design Lab
Design and change - communicated in a playful way

Design is change! The MAK Design Lab deals with topics that are burning under our nails! Here you can find out what solutions design can offer for the challenges of the future and for shaping our lives in the 21st century. How could we once again treat our planet with respect and live together sustainably? Which materials are sensible alternatives to plastic, polystyrene and concrete? Will robots take over our work and what professions will we still need? We will show you creative solutions that inspire us to rethink production and consumption.

€ 60,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
1 hour guided tour

Vienna 1900
The History of Art Nouveau

The MAK exhibition collection VIENNA 1900. Design/Crafts 1890-1938 presents the history of Art Nouveau in three rooms - its emergence, heyday and further development. With the focus on "Viennese Modernism" we discover the world-famous Wiener Werkstätte. We marvel at works by Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann and his counterpart Adolf Loos, tell you interesting facts about the first Austrian female architect, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, and introduce you to the artisan Rose Krenn. We look at the arts and crafts in the course of their time and take a closer look at social developments. You can expect a cultural-historical journey through time and an immersion in the atmosphere of Vienna at an exciting and contradictory turn of the century.

€ 60,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
1 hour guided tour

René Lalique, Ornamental Comb with Wisteria Blossoms, Paris, 1899/1900

Luxury Tour through the MAK
From the cult of nobility to life after abundance

Luxury often refers to that which is not in abundance. What does luxury mean today, what did it look like in the past and what should definitely not be luxury in the future? Things like the internet and smartphones have become a matter of course and basic needs like clean water, pure air and exercise in nature are in danger of becoming luxuries. Our search for clues leads us through the historical collections of the MAK to the MAK Design Lab. There, design solutions await you that inspire us to rethink production, overproduction and consumption. At a game table, designed by the designer team breadedEscalope, we all play and discuss together about our very normal abundance.

€ 60,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
1 hour guided tour

Sitting - from armchairs, stools and toilets
The history of sitting and movement culture

Who sits where, how and why? How does the culture of sitting determine social orders? Are we a "sedentary" society today? On a journey through time of sitting, from the baroque to the future on raffia, wood, velvet, metal, from the design classic to the dog stool to the spinning top seat to try out, you will learn how the culture of sitting shapes our posture, reflects it and both restricts and expands it.

€ 60,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
1 hour guided tour

Roboter, KI, Datenschutz, MAK Design Lab

Robots, Artificial Intelligence and Data Protection
A guided tour through the MAK Design Lab

In this guided tour, we will encounter a wide variety of robotic systems that are self-learning, terrifying, especially cute, commonplace or freely invented. You will learn how they are changing the way we live together. Will robots take over our work and what human skills are needed? What, how and for what do we want to learn then? Together we will discuss the fascination and new opportunities of innovation, but also the dangers that lurk when dealing with new tools. The examination of the internet, data, privacy and also our own behavior patterns are an essential part of the tour.

€ 60,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
1 hour guided tour

Burton Nitta (Michael Burton & Michiko Nitta), Algaculture. Near Future Algae Symbiosis Suit, 2010 Prototype

Climate change, recycling and sustainable living
A guided tour through the MAK Design Lab

In our lives and our everyday life we are facing new challenges today, especially the climate crisis plays a central role. Design can help us to change our future and also our coexistence with our planet, to stand up for biodiversity and diversity. In an interactive and playful tour, we will explore circular economy and solutions for sustainable consumption. Because sharing opportunities, repairing things and understanding old materials as resources can help us live together in a more sustainable way.

€ 60,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
1 hour guided tour

Charlotte Billwiller, Mathilde Flögl, Susi Singer, Marianne Leisching, and Maria Likarz, Photograph, 1924

Rebels of everyday life!
The interactive guided tour on gender, society and design.

At the MAK, everything revolves around design and the creative shaping of everyday life. But who actually designed our spaces and our everyday lives? And who are the rebels at the MAK? What have they done for all of us, and what do the brave bright minds of tomorrow look like? In a walk through the museum, we talk about people who have designed great things for our everyday lives and how they have contributed to equality as a result. Discover them with us and at the same time discover the rebel in you!

€ 60,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
1 hour guided tour

Paint the Furniture Red!
Guided tour and workshop on creative furniture making and colorful design

There’s a whole host of things to explore at the MAKincluding all manner of furniture! But can furniture be art? And what makes furniture artful? We’ll build our own furniture using cardboard, wire, and offbeat techniques and then paint our creations all the colors of the rainbow!

€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop

A Picture-Book Day!
A bookbinding workshop for the beautiful things in life

We will show you simple tricks of the trade to bind your own sketchbook, which we will then take on a journey of discovery through the MAK exhibition collection. Here everything revolves around art in everyday life and design. We will ask ourselves what makes an object of everyday use art and what we actually find beautiful here and why. To do this, we look for our aesthetic no-gos, the very personal rules we have for beautiful things. Pay attention to what you find beautiful and sketch it in your own notebook!

€ 120,- per group (maximum 10 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop

The Wiener Werkstamps
The MAK Stamp Workshop based on patterns and forms of the Wiener Werkstätten

In this workshop we’ll get up close and personal with the Wiener Werkstätte. After an inspiring tour of the exhibition, we’ll fold paper into shapes similar to Art Nouveau designs. Then we’ll decorate our creations with colorful stamps based on patterns by designers like Felice Rix and Josef Hoffmann. The design studio mischer’traxler created a whole set especially for your workshop. So let’s get started!

€ 90,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
1,5-2 hours guided tour and workshop

Rock ’n’ CoCo – alle meine Papierkleider!

A Cut Above - Worth the Paper It’s Made of
Designing outfits with lots of pleats

What’s fashion really all about and do clothes always have to be made of fabric? We’ll give you a glimpse of the MAK’s collection before you put your own fashion trends to the test in a paper dress workshop. The catwalk that follows will take place in the grand setting of the MAK’s Columned Main Hall!

€ 180,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2.5 hours guided tour and workshop

Arten-viel-falten!
Intertwined coexistence

We make diverse creatures using creative folding techniques. In our guided tour through the MAK Design Lab, you will learn about the relationships and interconnections of our coexistence with our planet. In the workshop that follows, we will practice origami techniques and create a variety of planetary creatures.

€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop

Food - Today - Tomorrow
Table cultures and eating habits in the course of time

What should we eat and what shouldn’t we? With this workshop we cater entirely to your tastes. During a guided tour of the MAK Design Lab, we’ll gain a new perspective on ordinary and extraordinary foodstuffs and their packaging. And now it’s your turn: help us develop a new packaging design for the consumers of tomorrow.

€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop

Junior Grades

Our interactive guided tours and workshops for schools: applied and visionary!

An exciting journey to the history of life design awaits you - through the centuries to our present. In interactive guided tours and workshops we convey the world of artistic everyday design and the history of design. We deal with old and new materials as well as almost forgotten and innovative techniques and ask ourselves what makes an everyday object art. What do we want to learn from the past and how can we design the future in a way that a sustainable coexistence on and with our planet can succeed?

Today we are facing new challenges in our lives and our everyday life, especially the climate crisis plays a central role. Design can help us to change our future and also our coexistence with our planet and to stand up for biodiversity and diversity. In an interactive and playful tour through the MAK Design Lab, we will explore circular economy and solutions for sustainable consumption. After all, sharing opportunities, repairing things, and understanding old materials as resources can help us live together in a more sustainable way.

Our diverse range of workshops is aimed squarely at the designers of the future. Here you can not only learn handicraft skills, but also think creatively together. We experiment and try things out in an artistic and exploratory way!

Do you have a special topic in mind? We will gladly try to respond to your ideas individually or to combine guided tours and workshops individually.

We also have online school offerings that you can use to prepare and follow up on your lessons.

Education and Outreach

T +43 1 71136-298

education@MAK.at

Get in touch

At the MAK this fall, it's all about fashion and sustainable consumption, glass, glamour & engraving, the history of pioneering women in art and design, and poster art!

Changetailoring
Design your Anti-Fast-Fashion-Collections

Here everything revolves around sustainable design strategies for clothing. In a guided tour through the exhibition CRITICAL CONSUMPTION, which is specially designed for students with interactive stations, we will look at the textile industry and fashion and take a critical look at the fast fashion industry and learn about creative strategies for sustainable fashion consumption. What is the value of our clothes, what is the impact of our fashion consumption on climate change, and most importantly, what solutions are there to try for a sustainable and creative use of clothing? Showcase your favorite pieces and take home what you want to swap! We'll create anti-fast fashion collections and make small practical accessories to match. Let's get brave tailoring!

10 to 19 years
€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop

MAK Exhibition View, 2023, GLITZ AND GLAMOUR: 200 Years of Lobmeyr

Shine, Glamour & ... Engraving!
The Glass Workshop by MAK and POLKA Design

MAK introduces its new workshop format with a new material focus: Material Matters! On the occasion of the exhibition GLANZ UND GLAMOUR. 200 Years of Lobmeyr, we are offering for the first time the workshop for glass conceived and designed by the designer duo POLKA. After immersing ourselves in the glass world of drinking services, decorative tableware, mirrors and chandeliers of the world-famous glassmaking dynasty during a tour of the exhibition, we will jointly retrace the design process of a drinking glass - from two-dimensional design to the development of prototypes to production and finishing processes. Afterwards, the students will try their hand at artistic glass finishing. A drinking glass engraved with personal initials can then be taken home.

10 to 19 years
€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop

Das Fest zum Protest!
Say it with a poster

You want to be seen and heard with your concern at the next demo? Then let's take a guided tour of the exhibition 100 Best Posters 2022 and the MAK Design Lab. We'll focus on topics like democracy, equality and climate justice, and then design signs together for your next protest action! What do you want to demonstrate against and what do you want to stand up for? We will give you design tips and look forward to your energy!

16 to 19 years
€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour + workshop

MAK Permanent Collection Historicism Art Nouveau

Ready to Assemble

Guided tour and workshop on creative furniture making and modular design.

There’s a whole host of things to discover at the MAKincluding all manner of furniture! But can furniture be art? And just what is it that makes a piece of furniture artful? We’ll turn our hand to modular furniture design with the help of cardboard, wire, and offbeat techniques. Because it’s more than just the sum of its parts.

€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop

Wild Workshops
Future-Fit, Eco-Friendly Design

You shape your future! But how and for who else besides yourselves? We’ll discuss the latest design projects at the MAK that are committed to fighting climate change and creating future-fit designs. Then you’ll get to use the tools by the designer duo mischer’traxler to design an eco-friendly neighborhood for yourself and others.

€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group).
2 hours guided tour and workshop
or
€ 180,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2,5 hours guided tour and workshop

Bookbinding
A bookbinding workshop for the beautiful things in life

Across cultural history, we look at everyday design, old and new materials and techniques, and think about what makes a utilitarian object art. We will walk through the MAK show collection and ask ourselves what we actually find beautiful here and why.Pay attention to what you find beautiful and tie it tightly together!In a subsequent workshop, we will practice the art of bookbinding with needle, thread and (colored) paper.In one workshop you will get to know different binding techniques.

€ 120,- per group (maximum 10 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop

UTO POP!
Pop-up picture books for our utopias

In this workshop, conceived by picture book artist Marion Bataille and architect Fanny Millard, we will produce diverse and utopian paper architectures that will be folded together into pop-up books. We create utopian spaces with colored paper!

€ 120,- per group (maximum 10 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop

Fantastic Creatures & Features
Forms of work of the future

What and how will we work and learn in the future? First, you can expect a guided tour and discussion on the topic of work and careers in times of digital innovation, urban innovation and against the backdrop of the climate crisis.

How will we live and work together in the future? What do we want to work for, what do we want to be passionate about? Which human skills will be required more than ever in the future and should be promoted? In a subsequent workshop, we model existing structures and bring visionary designs and fictional scenarios to old building complexes. For this purpose, we design diverse and imaginative personas that could inhabit this utopian city and dreamscape, and sketchily conceive the appropriate work clothes for them.

€ 180,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
3 hours guided tour and workshop

Senior Grades

Our interactive guided tours and workshops for schools: applied and visionary!

An exciting journey to the history of life design awaits you - through the centuries to our present. In interactive guided tours and workshops we convey the world of artistic everyday design and the history of design. We deal with old and new materials as well as almost forgotten and innovative techniques and ask ourselves what makes an everyday object art. What do we want to learn from the past and how can we design the future in a way that a sustainable coexistence on and with our planet can succeed?

Today we are facing new challenges in our lives and our everyday life, especially the climate crisis plays a central role. Design can help us to change our future and also our coexistence with our planet and to stand up for biodiversity and diversity. In an interactive and playful tour through the MAK Design Lab, we will explore circular economy and solutions for sustainable consumption. After all, sharing opportunities, repairing things, and understanding old materials as resources can help us live together in a more sustainable way.

Our diverse range of workshops is aimed squarely at the designers of the future. Here you can not only learn handicraft skills, but also think creatively together. We experiment and try things out in an artistic and exploratory way!

Do you have a special topic in mind? We will gladly try to respond to your ideas individually or to combine guided tours and workshops individually.

We also have online school offerings that you can use to prepare and follow up on your lessons.

Education and Outreach

T +43 1 71136-298

education@MAK.at

Get in touch

At the MAK this fall, it's all about fashion and sustainable consumption, glass, glamour & engraving, the history of pioneering women in art and design, and poster art!

Ready to Assemble

Digital Offerings

The MAK school program DO IT YOURSELF! offers you and your students a variety of opportunities to visit the MAK - even without an art educator. We also offer ongoing introductions for teachers.

MAK Lab App

Die MAK Lab App, ein Projekt in Kooperation mit dem Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, vermittelt essenzielle Themen für die Zukunftsgestaltung in Zeiten der Digitalen Moderne und des Klimawandels. Spannend aufbereitet und mit spielerischen Ansätzen ergänzt sie den Parcours des 2019 neu aufgestellten MAK Design Lab und kann seit Anfang des Jahres 2020 über lab.mak.at auf jedem Smartphone aufgerufen werden.

Summer Activities

MAK Summer Studios with the designer Basse Stittgen 2025

Mon, 21.7.2025 NaN.30 AM

Guided tours for teachers

We regularly invite teachers to guided tours of our exhibitions. Would you like to be informed about dates for guided tours, offers for school groups, kindergartens and after-school programs? Simply register for the newsletter school / kindergarten / after-school care.

Education and Outreach

T +43 1 71136-298

education@MAK.at

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