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Discover the Austrian National Library and its five museums together with your school class. Draw from the range of age-appropriate guided tours. Arrange either a regular 45-minute tour or choose the extended 90-minute tour, for instance by combining a visit to the Baroque State Hall at Josefsplatz with the service facility of the Modern Library at Heldenplatz.
Guided tours on offer
In one of the most magnificent library rooms in the world, your pupils will experience a journey from the Baroque period to the present, encountering the old favourites of Greek mythology that bring the ceiling fresco to life. In addition to the guided tour of the State Hall, you may also get a brief overview of the current special exhibition.
| Duration | 45 minutes |
| Costs | EUR 2.00 per pupil Teachers (max. two per school class) free |
The guided tour of this unique museum informs your pupils about the most successful planned language in the world: Esperanto. They also learn about many other invented languages at interactive media stations, such as the famous Klingon from the TV series “Star Trek”. Tip: combine the tour with a crash course in Esperanto.
| Duration | 45 minutes (incl. crash course: 90 minutes) |
| Costs | EUR 2.00 per pupil (EUR 4.00 incl. crash course) Teachers (max. two per school class) free |
What do century-old globes say about the world and the universe? Take your school class on a visit to the only museum of its kind in the world and discover its 250 unique earth and celestial globes.
| Duration | 45 minutes |
| Costs | EUR 2.00 per pupil Teachers (max. two per school class) free |
Read, listen, see, marvel: we offer guided tours for school groups starting from the seventh grade to show pupils the highlights of our permanent exhibition. They will gain an insight into the many varied literary forms of expression. They will experience literature in different media, from manuscripts and books to audio plays, music and film. They will be inspired to think about the objects and their stories and learn that literature can be fun.
Tip: combine the tour with a writing workshop.
| Duration | 45 minutes (incl. workshop: 90 minutes) |
| Costs | EUR 2.00 per pupil (EUR 4.00 incl. workshop) Teachers (max. two per school class) free |
Take your pupils on a fascinating journey through 3000 years of Egyptian cultural history in the Papyrus Museum of the Austrian National Library. Tip: combine this age-appropriate tour with our workshop “Writing on Papyrus”. Contact: +43 (1) 534 10-427
| Duration | 45 minutes (incl. workshop: 90 minutes) |
| Costs | EUR 2.00 per pupil (EUR 4.00 incl. workshop) Teachers (max. two per school class) free |
Millions of publications, from children’s books to current non-fiction books, are kept in the book storage facilities of the Austrian National Library. How do you access all this knowledge? Through this tour, your pupils will be given an initial introduction on how to use the library.
| Duration | 45 minutes |
| Costs | EUR 1.00 per pupil (from the age of 15) Teachers (max. two per school class) free |
Pre-scientific papers (duration: 90 minutes): after a tour through the user area of the Modern Library, pupils can expect detailed catalogue research and an introduction to the numerous databases. A limited number of guided tours is offered per school semester.
| Duration | 90 minutes |
| Costs | EUR 3.00 per pupil (from the age of 15) Teachers (max. two per school class) free |
Private guided tours
For special wishes and private group tours in German, English, French, Spanish and other languages, please contact us at tel. no. +43 (1) 534 10-464 or via email: kulturvermittlung(at)onb.ac.at
Special school programmes
The Austrian National Library provides 60-minute educational offerings at defined times each semester for comprehensive schools, grammar schools, cooperative middle schools, new middle schools, Vienna middle schools, vocational students and apprentices. Moreover, 90-minute educational offerings are available for special schools and special pedagogical centres.
Knowledge Worlds
School classes get to know the State Hall, the Papyrus, Globe and Esperanto Museums as well as the book storage facility of the Austrian National Library in a lively way. Each adventure trip has a focus, conveys the content shown in an exciting way and actively involves the pupils – this way, learning is fun!
For more information and registration, please visit » www.jugendliteratur.net
Word Worlds
Word Worlds aims at making pupils enthusiastic about literature, stirring an interest in the written word and teaching them literary skills. We offer 50-minute guided tours on six different themes for school classes from grade 7 upwards. The content and teaching methods are always adapted to suit the lives and interests of the young people. There is a new educational offering for primary schools – “Crafting Language in the Literature Museum” from grade 3 already.
For more information and advance reservations, please visit » www.jugendliteratur.net
Change of Worlds
A new communications programme as an integration tool for schoolchildren with a migrant background! The one-hour events combine information with promoting understanding and acceptance of our culture. Life stories of famous female personalities such as Maria Theresa show how important a single person can be. Special, age-appropriate programmes are offered for the 3rd and 4th grade as well as the 5th to 8th grade.
For more information and advance reservations, please visit » www.jugendliteratur.net
Net guides
School classes visited the State Hall and Globe Museum of the Austrian National Library and developed a multimedia “travel guide” for the Internet: in project work, they prepared their own reports on exhibits chosen by themselves. The results can be admired » here.