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.
© MAK
Workshops and guided tours for Kindergarten
3 to 6 years old
© Claus Krieger Collection
Architectural Building Sets: Drop In and Build!
Starting in October, the MAK invites visitors to try out what hundreds of toy manufacturers have developed over decades. On display is a selection of around 70 historic architectural building sets. Exclusively for this exhibition, valuable original building blocks and construction systems will be brought to life for hands-on play. Recreated on a larger scale, they’re ready for everyone who loves experimenting and building. You can also embark on an immersive journey inside an architectural model through a VR simulation!
Just drop by and start buildingadmission is free, as always!
We look forward to seeing you!
7 October 2026–14 April 2027
For children ages 4 and up
Starting in October, the MAK invites visitors to try out what hundreds of toy manufacturers have developed over decades. On display is a selection of around 70 historic architectural building sets. Exclusively for this exhibition, valuable original building blocks and construction systems will be brought to life for hands-on play. Recreated on a larger scale, they’re ready for everyone who loves experimenting and building. You can also embark on an immersive journey inside an architectural model through a VR simulation!
Just drop by and start buildingadmission is free, as always!
We look forward to seeing you!
7 October 2026–14 April 2027
For children ages 4 and up
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
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
© Bertjan Pot
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
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
© MAK
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
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.
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.
© MAK/Mika K. Wisskirchen
School program for elementary schools on current exhibitions
© Claus Krieger Collection
Architectural Building Sets: Drop In and Build!
Starting in October, the MAK invites visitors to try out what hundreds of toy manufacturers have developed over decades. On display is a selection of around 70 historic architectural building sets. Exclusively for this exhibition, valuable original building blocks and construction systems will be brought to life for hands-on play. Recreated on a larger scale, they’re ready for everyone who loves experimenting and building. You can also embark on an immersive journey inside an architectural model through a VR simulation!
Just drop by and start buildingadmission is free, as always!
We look forward to seeing you!
For children ages 4 and up
Available to book from 7 October 2026 through 14 April 2027
Starting in October, the MAK invites visitors to try out what hundreds of toy manufacturers have developed over decades. On display is a selection of around 70 historic architectural building sets. Exclusively for this exhibition, valuable original building blocks and construction systems will be brought to life for hands-on play. Recreated on a larger scale, they’re ready for everyone who loves experimenting and building. You can also embark on an immersive journey inside an architectural model through a VR simulation!
Just drop by and start buildingadmission is free, as always!
We look forward to seeing you!
For children ages 4 and up
Available to book from 7 October 2026 through 14 April 2027
© Claus Krieger Collection
BUILD WITH US! The Big Architectural Building Challenge for Little Builders
We invite you to a fun architecture competition using historic building blocks! With the playful adapters from the Free Universal Construction Kit, you can also create entirely new connections between a wide range of contemporary building systems from around the world.
Who will judge your creations? The friendliest jury in Viennayou! Experiment with different building blocks to discover how you like to build, play, and tell stories. The choice is yours, because architecture is about much more than building houses!
For all grade levels
Guided tour and workshop
Duration: 120 minutes
Price: € 120 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
Available to book from 7 October 2026 through 14 April 2027
We invite you to a fun architecture competition using historic building blocks! With the playful adapters from the Free Universal Construction Kit, you can also create entirely new connections between a wide range of contemporary building systems from around the world.
Who will judge your creations? The friendliest jury in Viennayou! Experiment with different building blocks to discover how you like to build, play, and tell stories. The choice is yours, because architecture is about much more than building houses!
For all grade levels
Guided tour and workshop
Duration: 120 minutes
Price: € 120 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
Available to book from 7 October 2026 through 14 April 2027
© Claus Krieger Collection
ArchitecTour – Join the Fun! It’s About More Than Just LEGO!
Discover creative interlocking systems, intricately detailed building blocks, and fascinating models that tell stories about architectureand what playtime used to look like. Best of all, architecture isn’t just something to look at and learn about here: it’s something you get to play with!
For all grade levels
Guided tour
Duration: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
Available to book from 7 October 2026 through 14 April 2027
Discover creative interlocking systems, intricately detailed building blocks, and fascinating models that tell stories about architectureand what playtime used to look like. Best of all, architecture isn’t just something to look at and learn about here: it’s something you get to play with!
For all grade levels
Guided tour
Duration: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
Available to book from 7 October 2026 through 14 April 2027
© MAK
Stages of Reality
image/powerfrom Vienna 1900 to Social Media
We span an arc from Modernism around 1900 to our medially driven present. Starting out from the permanent collection VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art, participants interactively explore the concept of holistically designed living environments, juxtaposing the concept to contemporary visual strategies.
The focus is on the staging of reality: using Thomas Demand’s work with historical set designs from the Baroque to the turn of the last century, Barbara Pflaum’s photographs in Showcases of Everyday Life, and the visionary activist theater of Christoph Schlingesief, we explore the production of reality in different media.
What parallels exist between historical visions and contemporary social media strategies? Can it be that fiction embodies a deeper truth than reality?
The goal is to strengthen participants’ visual competence, critical thinking, and medial self-reflectionkey skills in an era of precipitous image production, social polarization, and ubiquitous social media.
all grade levels
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group of maximum 12 students
image/powerfrom Vienna 1900 to Social Media
We span an arc from Modernism around 1900 to our medially driven present. Starting out from the permanent collection VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art, participants interactively explore the concept of holistically designed living environments, juxtaposing the concept to contemporary visual strategies.
The focus is on the staging of reality: using Thomas Demand’s work with historical set designs from the Baroque to the turn of the last century, Barbara Pflaum’s photographs in Showcases of Everyday Life, and the visionary activist theater of Christoph Schlingesief, we explore the production of reality in different media.
What parallels exist between historical visions and contemporary social media strategies? Can it be that fiction embodies a deeper truth than reality?
The goal is to strengthen participants’ visual competence, critical thinking, and medial self-reflectionkey skills in an era of precipitous image production, social polarization, and ubiquitous social media.
all grade levels
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group of maximum 12 students
© MAK
VIENNA 1900
Everyday. A Total Work of Art
Checkerboards, Curlicues, and Bats
What was everyday life like more than 100 years agoand why does so much of it still feel modern today? On this interactive tour of VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art at the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, children travel back to old Vienna to discover the patterns, shapes, and ideas that changed the world.
Together, we’ll search for bats, cats, checkerboards, curlicues, and exciting designs, explore different materials, and create our own works of art. Through playful activities, children discover what a Gesamtkunstwerka “total work of art”means: bringing art and beauty into every aspect of everyday life, from a sugar bowl to an entire building. A lively journey of discovery filled with hands-on activities, wonder, and creative experimentation!
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group of maximum 12 students
Everyday. A Total Work of Art
Checkerboards, Curlicues, and Bats
What was everyday life like more than 100 years agoand why does so much of it still feel modern today? On this interactive tour of VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art at the MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, children travel back to old Vienna to discover the patterns, shapes, and ideas that changed the world.
Together, we’ll search for bats, cats, checkerboards, curlicues, and exciting designs, explore different materials, and create our own works of art. Through playful activities, children discover what a Gesamtkunstwerka “total work of art”means: bringing art and beauty into every aspect of everyday life, from a sugar bowl to an entire building. A lively journey of discovery filled with hands-on activities, wonder, and creative experimentation!
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group of maximum 12 students
Guided Tours for elementary schools
© eSeL.at/Robert Puteanu
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
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
© Stefan Lux/MAK
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
Available to book until end of October
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
Available to book until end of October
© Julia Dragosits/MAK
Vienna 1900
The History of Art Nouveau
The MAK exhibition collection VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art 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
The History of Art Nouveau
The MAK exhibition collection VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art 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
© MAK/Katrin Wißkirchen
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
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
© Wolfgang Woessner
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
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
© MAK
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
Available to book until end of October
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
Available to book until end of October
© Burton Nitta
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
Available to book until end of October
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
Available to book until end of October
© MAK
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
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
Workshops and guided tours for elementary school
© MAK
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
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
© MAK/Georg Mayer
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
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
© MAK
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
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
© MAK
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
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
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.
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.
© Julia Dragosits/MAK
School program for junior grades on current exhibitions
© Claus Krieger Collection
Architectural Building Sets: Drop In and Build!
Starting in October, the MAK invites visitors to try out what hundreds of toy manufacturers have developed over decades. On display is a selection of around 70 historic architectural building sets. Exclusively for this exhibition, valuable original building blocks and construction systems will be brought to life for hands-on play. Recreated on a larger scale, they’re ready for everyone who loves experimenting and building. You can also embark on an immersive journey inside an architectural model through a VR simulation!
Just drop by and start buildingadmission is free, as always!
We look forward to seeing you!
For children ages 4 and up
Available to book from 7 October 2026 through 14 April 2027
Starting in October, the MAK invites visitors to try out what hundreds of toy manufacturers have developed over decades. On display is a selection of around 70 historic architectural building sets. Exclusively for this exhibition, valuable original building blocks and construction systems will be brought to life for hands-on play. Recreated on a larger scale, they’re ready for everyone who loves experimenting and building. You can also embark on an immersive journey inside an architectural model through a VR simulation!
Just drop by and start buildingadmission is free, as always!
We look forward to seeing you!
For children ages 4 and up
Available to book from 7 October 2026 through 14 April 2027
© Claus Krieger Collection
BUILD WITH US! The Big Architectural Building Challenge for Little Builders
We invite you to a fun architecture competition using historic building blocks! With the playful adapters from the Free Universal Construction Kit, you can also create entirely new connections between a wide range of contemporary building systems from around the world.
Who will judge your creations? The friendliest jury in Viennayou! Experiment with different building blocks to discover how you like to build, play, and tell stories. The choice is yours, because architecture is about much more than building houses!
For all grade levels
Guided tour and workshop
Duration: 120 minutes
Price: € 120 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
Available to book from 7 October 2026 through 14 April 2027
We invite you to a fun architecture competition using historic building blocks! With the playful adapters from the Free Universal Construction Kit, you can also create entirely new connections between a wide range of contemporary building systems from around the world.
Who will judge your creations? The friendliest jury in Viennayou! Experiment with different building blocks to discover how you like to build, play, and tell stories. The choice is yours, because architecture is about much more than building houses!
For all grade levels
Guided tour and workshop
Duration: 120 minutes
Price: € 120 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
Available to book from 7 October 2026 through 14 April 2027
© Claus Krieger Collection
ArchitecTour – Join the Fun! It’s About More Than Just LEGO!
Discover creative interlocking systems, intricately detailed building blocks, and fascinating models that tell stories about architectureand what playtime used to look like. Best of all, architecture isn’t just something to look at and learn about here: it’s something you get to play with!
For all grade levels
Guided tour
Duration: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
Available to book from 7 October 2026 through 14 April 2027
Discover creative interlocking systems, intricately detailed building blocks, and fascinating models that tell stories about architectureand what playtime used to look like. Best of all, architecture isn’t just something to look at and learn about here: it’s something you get to play with!
For all grade levels
Guided tour
Duration: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
Available to book from 7 October 2026 through 14 April 2027
© MAK
image/power
Staged Reality – From Vienna 1900 to Social Media
This guided tour connects modernity around 1900 with our media-shaped present. Starting with VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art, students explore the idea of a comprehensively designed living environment and relate it to contemporary visual strategies.
Through the exhibitions THOMAS DEMAND. Spaces Dreaming of Yesterday and Barbara Pflaum. Shop Windows on Everyday Life, we discuss staging and the ways media shape our perception of reality. What parallels can we draw between historical visions and today’s social media strategies? Can fiction reveal a deeper truth?
The tour aims to strengthen visual literacy, critical thinking, and media self-reflectionessential skills in an age of accelerated self-presentation, image production, and social media.
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group of maximum 12 students
Staged Reality – From Vienna 1900 to Social Media
This guided tour connects modernity around 1900 with our media-shaped present. Starting with VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art, students explore the idea of a comprehensively designed living environment and relate it to contemporary visual strategies.
Through the exhibitions THOMAS DEMAND. Spaces Dreaming of Yesterday and Barbara Pflaum. Shop Windows on Everyday Life, we discuss staging and the ways media shape our perception of reality. What parallels can we draw between historical visions and today’s social media strategies? Can fiction reveal a deeper truth?
The tour aims to strengthen visual literacy, critical thinking, and media self-reflectionessential skills in an age of accelerated self-presentation, image production, and social media.
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group of maximum 12 students
© kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK
Stages of Reality
image/powerfrom Vienna 1900 to Social Media
We span an arc from Modernism around 1900 to our medially driven present. Starting out from the permanent collection VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art, participants interactively explore the concept of holistically designed living environments, juxtaposing the concept to contemporary visual strategies.
The focus is on the staging of reality: using Thomas Demand’s work with historical set designs from the Baroque to the turn of the last century, Barbara Pflaum’s photographs in Showcases of Everyday Life, and the visionary activist theater of Christoph Schlingesief, we explore the production of reality in different media.
What parallels exist between historical visions and contemporary social media strategies? Can it be that fiction embodies a deeper truth than reality?
The goal is to strengthen participants’ visual competence, critical thinking, and medial self-reflectionkey skills in an era of precipitous image production, social polarization, and ubiquitous social media.
all grade levels
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group of maximum 12 students
image/powerfrom Vienna 1900 to Social Media
We span an arc from Modernism around 1900 to our medially driven present. Starting out from the permanent collection VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art, participants interactively explore the concept of holistically designed living environments, juxtaposing the concept to contemporary visual strategies.
The focus is on the staging of reality: using Thomas Demand’s work with historical set designs from the Baroque to the turn of the last century, Barbara Pflaum’s photographs in Showcases of Everyday Life, and the visionary activist theater of Christoph Schlingesief, we explore the production of reality in different media.
What parallels exist between historical visions and contemporary social media strategies? Can it be that fiction embodies a deeper truth than reality?
The goal is to strengthen participants’ visual competence, critical thinking, and medial self-reflectionkey skills in an era of precipitous image production, social polarization, and ubiquitous social media.
all grade levels
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group of maximum 12 students
© MAK
VIENNA 1900
Everyday. A Total Work of Art
Between Art Nouveau and Visions of the Future
Around 1900, Vienna became a hotspot of modernity. Artists and architects wanted not only to create art, but to shape life itself. In this dialogue-based tour of VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art, we explore how design shapes realitythen and now. What visions of progress, technology, and society are reflected in the works of Otto Wagner, Gustav Klimt, and Josef Hoffmann? And why do so many of their ideas still seem surprisingly relevant today?
Contemporary perspectives open up new discussions, connecting the upheavals of the past with our present, shaped by design culture, social media, and self-presentation. The fascination with technology, new media, and the accelerating production of images has its roots in this period. Innovative printing techniques, new forms of communication, and visionary designs reflected a belief in progress, alongside the uncertainty of a society in transition. Themes such as multimedia, the staging of reality, and even early forms of social media and science fiction can already be identified in this era.
We explore the social tensions, inequalities, and profound changes that shaped the period. VIENNA 1900 emerges as an era caught between splendor and crisisand as the starting point for many ideas that continue to influence our world today.
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group of maximum 12 students
Everyday. A Total Work of Art
Between Art Nouveau and Visions of the Future
Around 1900, Vienna became a hotspot of modernity. Artists and architects wanted not only to create art, but to shape life itself. In this dialogue-based tour of VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art, we explore how design shapes realitythen and now. What visions of progress, technology, and society are reflected in the works of Otto Wagner, Gustav Klimt, and Josef Hoffmann? And why do so many of their ideas still seem surprisingly relevant today?
Contemporary perspectives open up new discussions, connecting the upheavals of the past with our present, shaped by design culture, social media, and self-presentation. The fascination with technology, new media, and the accelerating production of images has its roots in this period. Innovative printing techniques, new forms of communication, and visionary designs reflected a belief in progress, alongside the uncertainty of a society in transition. Themes such as multimedia, the staging of reality, and even early forms of social media and science fiction can already be identified in this era.
We explore the social tensions, inequalities, and profound changes that shaped the period. VIENNA 1900 emerges as an era caught between splendor and crisisand as the starting point for many ideas that continue to influence our world today.
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group of maximum 12 students
Guided Tours for junior grades
© MAK/Georg Mayer
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
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
© Stefan Lux/MAK
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
Available to book until end of October
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
Available to book until end of October
© kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK
Vienna 1900
The History of Art Nouveau
The MAK exhibition collection VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art 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
The History of Art Nouveau
The MAK exhibition collection VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art 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
© MAK/Katrin Wißkirchen
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
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
© Stefan Lux/MAK
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
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
© MAK
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
Available to book until end of October
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
Available to book until end of October
© Burton Nitta
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
Available to book until end of October
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
Available to book until end of October
© MAK
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
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
Workshops and guided tours for junior grades
© Severin Dostal/MAK
MAK Young Designer’s Kitchen
The Super Lab Designed by Designer Basse Stittgen
Here, young design researchers can make their own bioplastics, press objects from natural materials such as eggshells and grasses, make paper embedded with flower petals, create dyes from vegetables and roses, dye textiles, and distill their own perfumes.
The workshop begins with a visit to the MAK Design Lab, where we explore new and traditional materials, both natural and synthetic, as well as recycling and the circular economy.
Guided tour and workshop: 4 hours
Price: € 200 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
The Super Lab Designed by Designer Basse Stittgen
Here, young design researchers can make their own bioplastics, press objects from natural materials such as eggshells and grasses, make paper embedded with flower petals, create dyes from vegetables and roses, dye textiles, and distill their own perfumes.
The workshop begins with a visit to the MAK Design Lab, where we explore new and traditional materials, both natural and synthetic, as well as recycling and the circular economy.
Guided tour and workshop: 4 hours
Price: € 200 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
© Severin Dostal/MAK
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 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop
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 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop
© MAK/Kristina Wissik
Celebrate the Protest!
Make Your Voice Heard with a Poster
Want to make sure your message is seen and heard at your next demonstration? After a guided tour exploring topics such as democracy, equality, and climate justice, we’ll create posters together for your next protest!
What do you want to stand up against, and what causes do you want to support? We’ll share creative design tips and can’t wait to see your ideas and energy in action!
€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop
Make Your Voice Heard with a Poster
Want to make sure your message is seen and heard at your next demonstration? After a guided tour exploring topics such as democracy, equality, and climate justice, we’ll create posters together for your next protest!
What do you want to stand up against, and what causes do you want to support? We’ll share creative design tips and can’t wait to see your ideas and energy in action!
€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop
© MAK
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
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
© Wolfgang Woessner
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
© MAK
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
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
© MAK
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
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
© Uto-Pop
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
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
© MAK/Georg Mayer
Sparkle, Glamour &
Engraving!
The Glass Workshop by the MAK and POLKA Design
The MAK presents a special edition of its workshop series, Material Matters!, focusing on glass.
On a guided tour, we’ll explore the world of glass, with a special focus on drinking glasses, decorative tableware, and chandeliers. Then it’s time to get hands-on in a workshop specially designed by the designer duo POLKA, where glass art can be admired up closeand precious objects can even be held and handled.
Together, we’ll follow the design process behind a drinking glass, from the initial two-dimensional sketch to prototype development, production, and finishing techniques. Then it’s the students’ turn to get creative and try their hand at the art of glass finishing.
Each participant can take home a drinking glass engraved with their own initials!
The Glass Workshop by the MAK and POLKA Design
The MAK presents a special edition of its workshop series, Material Matters!, focusing on glass.
On a guided tour, we’ll explore the world of glass, with a special focus on drinking glasses, decorative tableware, and chandeliers. Then it’s time to get hands-on in a workshop specially designed by the designer duo POLKA, where glass art can be admired up closeand precious objects can even be held and handled.
Together, we’ll follow the design process behind a drinking glass, from the initial two-dimensional sketch to prototype development, production, and finishing techniques. Then it’s the students’ turn to get creative and try their hand at the art of glass finishing.
Each participant can take home a drinking glass engraved with their own initials!
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.
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.
School program for senior grades on current exhibitions
© Claus Krieger Collection
Architectural Building Sets: Drop In and Build!
Starting in October, the MAK invites visitors to try out what hundreds of toy manufacturers have developed over decades. On display is a selection of around 70 historic architectural building sets. Exclusively for this exhibition, valuable original building blocks and construction systems will be brought to life for hands-on play. Recreated on a larger scale, they’re ready for everyone who loves experimenting and building. You can also embark on an immersive journey inside an architectural model through a VR simulation!
Just drop by and start buildingadmission is free, as always!
We look forward to seeing you!
For children ages 4 and up
Available to book from 7 October 2026 through 14 April 2027
Starting in October, the MAK invites visitors to try out what hundreds of toy manufacturers have developed over decades. On display is a selection of around 70 historic architectural building sets. Exclusively for this exhibition, valuable original building blocks and construction systems will be brought to life for hands-on play. Recreated on a larger scale, they’re ready for everyone who loves experimenting and building. You can also embark on an immersive journey inside an architectural model through a VR simulation!
Just drop by and start buildingadmission is free, as always!
We look forward to seeing you!
For children ages 4 and up
Available to book from 7 October 2026 through 14 April 2027
© Claus Krieger Collection
BUILD WITH US! The Big Architectural Building Challenge for Little Builders
We invite you to a fun architecture competition using historic building blocks! With the playful adapters from the Free Universal Construction Kit, you can also create entirely new connections between a wide range of contemporary building systems from around the world.
Who will judge your creations? The friendliest jury in Viennayou! Experiment with different building blocks to discover how you like to build, play, and tell stories. The choice is yours, because architecture is about much more than building houses!
For all grade levels
Guided tour and workshop
Duration: 120 minutes
Price: € 120 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
Available to book from 7 October 2026 through 14 April 2027
We invite you to a fun architecture competition using historic building blocks! With the playful adapters from the Free Universal Construction Kit, you can also create entirely new connections between a wide range of contemporary building systems from around the world.
Who will judge your creations? The friendliest jury in Viennayou! Experiment with different building blocks to discover how you like to build, play, and tell stories. The choice is yours, because architecture is about much more than building houses!
For all grade levels
Guided tour and workshop
Duration: 120 minutes
Price: € 120 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
Available to book from 7 October 2026 through 14 April 2027
© Claus Krieger Collection
ArchitecTour – Join the Fun! It’s About More Than Just LEGO!
Discover creative interlocking systems, intricately detailed building blocks, and fascinating models that tell stories about architectureand what playtime used to look like. Best of all, architecture isn’t just something to look at and learn about here: it’s something you get to play with!
For all grade levels
Guided tour
Duration: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
Available to book from 7 October 2026 through 14 April 2027
Discover creative interlocking systems, intricately detailed building blocks, and fascinating models that tell stories about architectureand what playtime used to look like. Best of all, architecture isn’t just something to look at and learn about here: it’s something you get to play with!
For all grade levels
Guided tour
Duration: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
Available to book from 7 October 2026 through 14 April 2027
© MAK
image/power
Staged Reality – From Vienna 1900 to Social Media
This guided tour connects modernity around 1900 with our media-shaped present. Starting with VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art, students explore the idea of a comprehensively designed living environment and relate it to contemporary visual strategies.
Through the exhibitions THOMAS DEMAND. Spaces Dreaming of Yesterday we discuss staging and the ways media shape our perception of reality. What parallels can we draw between historical visions and today’s social media strategies? Can fiction reveal a deeper truth?
The tour aims to strengthen visual literacy, critical thinking, and media self-reflectionessential skills in an age of accelerated self-presentation, image production, and social media.
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group of maximum 12 students
Staged Reality – From Vienna 1900 to Social Media
This guided tour connects modernity around 1900 with our media-shaped present. Starting with VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art, students explore the idea of a comprehensively designed living environment and relate it to contemporary visual strategies.
Through the exhibitions THOMAS DEMAND. Spaces Dreaming of Yesterday we discuss staging and the ways media shape our perception of reality. What parallels can we draw between historical visions and today’s social media strategies? Can fiction reveal a deeper truth?
The tour aims to strengthen visual literacy, critical thinking, and media self-reflectionessential skills in an age of accelerated self-presentation, image production, and social media.
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group of maximum 12 students
© MAK
VIENNA 1900
Everyday. A Total Work of Art
Between Art Nouveau and Visions of the Future
Around 1900, Vienna became a hotspot of modernity. Artists and architects wanted not only to create art, but to shape life itself. In this dialogue-based tour of VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art, we explore how design shapes realitythen and now. What visions of progress, technology, and society are reflected in the works of Otto Wagner, Gustav Klimt, and Josef Hoffmann? And why do so many of their ideas still seem surprisingly relevant today?
Contemporary perspectives open up new discussions, connecting the upheavals of the past with our present, shaped by design culture, social media, and self-presentation. The fascination with technology, new media, and the accelerating production of images has its roots in this period. Innovative printing techniques, new forms of communication, and visionary designs reflected a belief in progress, alongside the uncertainty of a society in transition. Themes such as multimedia, the staging of reality, and even early forms of social media and science fiction can already be identified in this era.
We explore the social tensions, inequalities, and profound changes that shaped the period. VIENNA 1900 emerges as an era caught between splendor and crisisand as the starting point for many ideas that continue to influence our world today.
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group of maximum 12 students
Everyday. A Total Work of Art
Between Art Nouveau and Visions of the Future
Around 1900, Vienna became a hotspot of modernity. Artists and architects wanted not only to create art, but to shape life itself. In this dialogue-based tour of VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art, we explore how design shapes realitythen and now. What visions of progress, technology, and society are reflected in the works of Otto Wagner, Gustav Klimt, and Josef Hoffmann? And why do so many of their ideas still seem surprisingly relevant today?
Contemporary perspectives open up new discussions, connecting the upheavals of the past with our present, shaped by design culture, social media, and self-presentation. The fascination with technology, new media, and the accelerating production of images has its roots in this period. Innovative printing techniques, new forms of communication, and visionary designs reflected a belief in progress, alongside the uncertainty of a society in transition. Themes such as multimedia, the staging of reality, and even early forms of social media and science fiction can already be identified in this era.
We explore the social tensions, inequalities, and profound changes that shaped the period. VIENNA 1900 emerges as an era caught between splendor and crisisand as the starting point for many ideas that continue to influence our world today.
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group of maximum 12 students
© kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK
Stages of Reality
image/powerfrom Vienna 1900 to Social Media
We span an arc from Modernism around 1900 to our medially driven present. Starting out from the permanent collection VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art, participants interactively explore the concept of holistically designed living environments, juxtaposing the concept to contemporary visual strategies.
The focus is on the staging of reality: using Thomas Demand’s work with historical set designs from the Baroque to the turn of the last century, Barbara Pflaum’s photographs in Showcases of Everyday Life, and the visionary activist theater of Christoph Schlingesief, we explore the production of reality in different media. What parallels exist between historical visions and contemporary social media strategies? Can it be that fiction embodies a deeper truth than reality? The goal is to strengthen participants’ visual competence, critical thinking, and medial self-reflectionkey skills in an era of precipitous image production, social polarization, and ubiquitous social media.
all grade levels
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group of maximum 12 students
image/powerfrom Vienna 1900 to Social Media
We span an arc from Modernism around 1900 to our medially driven present. Starting out from the permanent collection VIENNA 1900–Everyday. A Total Work of Art, participants interactively explore the concept of holistically designed living environments, juxtaposing the concept to contemporary visual strategies.
The focus is on the staging of reality: using Thomas Demand’s work with historical set designs from the Baroque to the turn of the last century, Barbara Pflaum’s photographs in Showcases of Everyday Life, and the visionary activist theater of Christoph Schlingesief, we explore the production of reality in different media. What parallels exist between historical visions and contemporary social media strategies? Can it be that fiction embodies a deeper truth than reality? The goal is to strengthen participants’ visual competence, critical thinking, and medial self-reflectionkey skills in an era of precipitous image production, social polarization, and ubiquitous social media.
all grade levels
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group of maximum 12 students
Guided Tours for Senior Grades
© MAK/Georg Mayer
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
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
© Stefan Lux/MAK
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
Available to book until end of October
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
Available to book until end of October
© kunst-dokumentation.com/MAK
Vienna 1900
The History of Art Nouveau
The MAK exhibition collection VIENNA 1900. Everyday–A Total Work of Art 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
The History of Art Nouveau
The MAK exhibition collection VIENNA 1900. Everyday–A Total Work of Art 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
© MAK/Katrin Wißkirchen
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
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
© Stefan Lux/MAK
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
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
© MAK
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
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
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
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
© MAK
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
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
Workshops and guided tours for senior grades
© Severin Dostal/MAK
MAK Young Designer’s Kitchen
The Super Lab Designed by Designer Basse Stittgen
Here, young design researchers can make their own bioplastics, press objects from natural materials such as eggshells and grasses, make paper embedded with flower petals, create dyes from vegetables and roses, dye textiles, and distill their own perfumes.
The workshop begins with a visit to the MAK Design Lab, where we explore new and traditional materials, both natural and synthetic, as well as recycling and the circular economy.
Guided tour and workshop: 4 hours
Price: € 200 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
The Super Lab Designed by Designer Basse Stittgen
Here, young design researchers can make their own bioplastics, press objects from natural materials such as eggshells and grasses, make paper embedded with flower petals, create dyes from vegetables and roses, dye textiles, and distill their own perfumes.
The workshop begins with a visit to the MAK Design Lab, where we explore new and traditional materials, both natural and synthetic, as well as recycling and the circular economy.
Guided tour and workshop: 4 hours
Price: € 200 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
© Severin Dostal/MAK
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 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop
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 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop
© MAK/Kristina Wissik
Celebrate the Protest!
Make Your Voice Heard with a Poster
Want to make sure your message is seen and heard at your next demonstration? After a guided tour exploring topics such as democracy, equality, and climate justice, we’ll create posters together for your next protest!
What do you want to stand up against, and what causes do you want to support? We’ll share creative design tips and can’t wait to see your ideas and energy in action!
€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop
Make Your Voice Heard with a Poster
Want to make sure your message is seen and heard at your next demonstration? After a guided tour exploring topics such as democracy, equality, and climate justice, we’ll create posters together for your next protest!
What do you want to stand up against, and what causes do you want to support? We’ll share creative design tips and can’t wait to see your ideas and energy in action!
€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop
© MAK
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
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
© Wolfgang Woessner
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
© MAK
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
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
© MAK/Georg Mayer
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
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
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
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
© MAK
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
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
© MAK
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
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
© MAK/Georg Mayer
Sparkle, Glamour &
Engraving!
The Glass Workshop by the MAK and POLKA Design
The MAK presents a special edition of its workshop series, Material Matters!, focusing on glass.
On a guided tour, we’ll explore the world of glass, with a special focus on drinking glasses, decorative tableware, and chandeliers. Then it’s time to get hands-on in a workshop specially designed by the designer duo POLKA, where glass art can be admired up closeand precious objects can even be held and handled.
Together, we’ll follow the design process behind a drinking glass, from the initial two-dimensional sketch to prototype development, production, and finishing techniques. Then it’s the students’ turn to get creative and try their hand at the art of glass finishing.
Each participant can take home a drinking glass engraved with their own initials!
The Glass Workshop by the MAK and POLKA Design
The MAK presents a special edition of its workshop series, Material Matters!, focusing on glass.
On a guided tour, we’ll explore the world of glass, with a special focus on drinking glasses, decorative tableware, and chandeliers. Then it’s time to get hands-on in a workshop specially designed by the designer duo POLKA, where glass art can be admired up closeand precious objects can even be held and handled.
Together, we’ll follow the design process behind a drinking glass, from the initial two-dimensional sketch to prototype development, production, and finishing techniques. Then it’s the students’ turn to get creative and try their hand at the art of glass finishing.
Each participant can take home a drinking glass engraved with their own initials!
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.
Summer Activities
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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.
© MAK/Mona Heiss