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.
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Workshops and guided tours for Kindergarten
3 to 6 years old
© MAK/Katrin Wißkirchen
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
© Julia Dragosits/MAK
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
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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
© MAK/Christian Mendez
Guided Tour and Workshop
Spot the Stars and Make Your Own!
Spot the Stars and Make Your Own!
In the sparkling exhibition BICYCLE & LOBSTER, we’ll discover dazzling ornaments that captivate everyone even those who don’t usually connect with festive traditions. Here, you won’t just find angels and stars, but also charming everyday miniatures from airplanes, slide rules, and handbags to spiders and frogs.
Balancing craftsmanship and serial production, delicate artworks emerged from Bohemian workshops around the center of Gablonz, based on an age-old glassmaking tradition. Made of fine glass rods, elegantly curved bangles, intricate hollow-glass forms, and gold- or silver-plated twisted beads, these ornaments embody true artistry.
After the glittering exhibition tour, we’ll create our own glass star decorations for the holidays using original kits from the Rautis company in the Gablonz region. Creative minds and nimble fingers will mix fancy glass beads with funky materials to design whatever they dream up!
All school levels
Guided tour and workshop: 120 minutes
Price: €120 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
With the kind support of Rautis
Balancing craftsmanship and serial production, delicate artworks emerged from Bohemian workshops around the center of Gablonz, based on an age-old glassmaking tradition. Made of fine glass rods, elegantly curved bangles, intricate hollow-glass forms, and gold- or silver-plated twisted beads, these ornaments embody true artistry.
After the glittering exhibition tour, we’ll create our own glass star decorations for the holidays using original kits from the Rautis company in the Gablonz region. Creative minds and nimble fingers will mix fancy glass beads with funky materials to design whatever they dream up!
All school levels
Guided tour and workshop: 120 minutes
Price: €120 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
With the kind support of Rautis
© MAK/Christian Mendez
Guided Tour
The Blinking, Sparkling, Glittering Jewelry Tour
The Blinking, Sparkling, Glittering Jewelry Tour
In the sparkling exhibition BICYCLE & LOBSTER, we’ll discover dazzling ornaments that enchant everyone even those who don’t usually connect with festive traditions. Here, you won’t just find angels and stars, but also delightful everyday miniatures from airplanes, slide rules, and handbags to spiders and frogs.
Balancing craftsmanship and serial production, delicate works of art emerged from Bohemian workshops around the center of Gablonz, rooted in an age-old glassmaking tradition. These fragile creations made from fine glass rods, elegantly curved bangles, intricate hollow-glass forms, and gold- or silver-plated twisted beads showcase the artistry and precision of Gablonz design.
All school levels
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
With the kind support of Rautis
Balancing craftsmanship and serial production, delicate works of art emerged from Bohemian workshops around the center of Gablonz, rooted in an age-old glassmaking tradition. These fragile creations made from fine glass rods, elegantly curved bangles, intricate hollow-glass forms, and gold- or silver-plated twisted beads showcase the artistry and precision of Gablonz design.
All school levels
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
With the kind support of Rautis
Guided Tours for elementary schools
© 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
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
© MAK/Georg Mayer
Vienna 1900
The History of Art Nouveau
The MAK exhibition collection VIENNA 1900. Design/Crafts 1890-1938 presents the history of Art Nouveau in three rooms - its emergence, heyday and further development. With the focus on "Viennese Modernism" we discover the world-famous Wiener Werkstätte. We marvel at works by Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann and his counterpart Adolf Loos, tell you interesting facts about the first Austrian female architect, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, and introduce you to the artisan Rose Krenn. We look at the arts and crafts in the course of their time and take a closer look at social developments. You can expect a cultural-historical journey through time and an immersion in the atmosphere of Vienna at an exciting and contradictory turn of the century.
€ 60,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
1 hour guided tour
The History of Art Nouveau
The MAK exhibition collection VIENNA 1900. Design/Crafts 1890-1938 presents the history of Art Nouveau in three rooms - its emergence, heyday and further development. With the focus on "Viennese Modernism" we discover the world-famous Wiener Werkstätte. We marvel at works by Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann and his counterpart Adolf Loos, tell you interesting facts about the first Austrian female architect, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, and introduce you to the artisan Rose Krenn. We look at the arts and crafts in the course of their time and take a closer look at social developments. You can expect a cultural-historical journey through time and an immersion in the atmosphere of Vienna at an exciting and contradictory turn of the century.
€ 60,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
1 hour guided tour
© 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 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
© MAK
Arten-viel-falten!
Intertwined coexistence
We make diverse creatures using creative folding techniques. In our guided tour through the MAK Design Lab, you will learn about the relationships and interconnections of our coexistence with our planet. In the workshop that follows, we will practice origami techniques and create a variety of planetary creatures.
€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop
Intertwined coexistence
We make diverse creatures using creative folding techniques. In our guided tour through the MAK Design Lab, you will learn about the relationships and interconnections of our coexistence with our planet. In the workshop that follows, we will practice origami techniques and create a variety of planetary creatures.
€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop
© MAK/Kristina Wissik
Food - Today - Tomorrow
Table cultures and eating habits in the course of time
What should we eat and what shouldn’t we? With this workshop we cater entirely to your tastes. During a guided tour of the MAK Design Lab, we’ll gain a new perspective on ordinary and extraordinary foodstuffs and their packaging. And now it’s your turn: help us develop a new packaging design for the consumers of tomorrow.
€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop
Table cultures and eating habits in the course of time
What should we eat and what shouldn’t we? With this workshop we cater entirely to your tastes. During a guided tour of the MAK Design Lab, we’ll gain a new perspective on ordinary and extraordinary foodstuffs and their packaging. And now it’s your turn: help us develop a new packaging design for the consumers of tomorrow.
€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop
Junior Grades
Our interactive guided tours and workshops for schools: applied and visionary!
An exciting journey to the history of life design awaits you - through the centuries to our present. In interactive guided tours and workshops we convey the world of artistic everyday design and the history of design. We deal with old and new materials as well as almost forgotten and innovative techniques and ask ourselves what makes an everyday object art. What do we want to learn from the past and how can we design the future in a way that a sustainable coexistence on and with our planet can succeed?
Today we are facing new challenges in our lives and our everyday life, especially the climate crisis plays a central role. Design can help us to change our future and also our coexistence with our planet and to stand up for biodiversity and diversity. In an interactive and playful tour through the MAK Design Lab, we will explore circular economy and solutions for sustainable consumption. After all, sharing opportunities, repairing things, and understanding old materials as resources can help us live together in a more sustainable way.
Our diverse range of workshops is aimed squarely at the designers of the future. Here you can not only learn handicraft skills, but also think creatively together. We experiment and try things out in an artistic and exploratory way!
Do you have a special topic in mind? We will gladly try to respond to your ideas individually or to combine guided tours and workshops individually.
We also have online school offerings that you can use to prepare and follow up on your lessons.
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
© MAK/Christian Mendez
Guided Tour and Workshop
Spot the Stars and Make Your Own!
Spot the Stars and Make Your Own!
In the sparkling exhibition BICYCLE & LOBSTER, we’ll discover dazzling ornaments that captivate everyone even those who don’t usually connect with festive traditions. Here, you won’t just find angels and stars, but also charming everyday miniatures from airplanes, slide rules, and handbags to spiders and frogs.
Balancing craftsmanship and serial production, delicate artworks emerged from Bohemian workshops around the center of Gablonz, based on an age-old glassmaking tradition. Made of fine glass rods, elegantly curved bangles, intricate hollow-glass forms, and gold- or silver-plated twisted beads, these ornaments embody true artistry.
After the glittering exhibition tour, we’ll create our own glass star decorations for the holidays using original kits from the Rautis company in the Gablonz region. Creative minds and nimble fingers will mix fancy glass beads with funky materials to design whatever they dream up!
All school levels
Guided tour and workshop: 120 minutes
Price: €120 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
With the kind support of Rautis
Balancing craftsmanship and serial production, delicate artworks emerged from Bohemian workshops around the center of Gablonz, based on an age-old glassmaking tradition. Made of fine glass rods, elegantly curved bangles, intricate hollow-glass forms, and gold- or silver-plated twisted beads, these ornaments embody true artistry.
After the glittering exhibition tour, we’ll create our own glass star decorations for the holidays using original kits from the Rautis company in the Gablonz region. Creative minds and nimble fingers will mix fancy glass beads with funky materials to design whatever they dream up!
All school levels
Guided tour and workshop: 120 minutes
Price: €120 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
With the kind support of Rautis
© MAK/Christian Mendez
Guided Tour
The Blinking, Sparkling, Glittering Jewelry Tour
The Blinking, Sparkling, Glittering Jewelry Tour
In the sparkling exhibition BICYCLE & LOBSTER, we’ll discover dazzling ornaments that enchant everyone even those who don’t usually connect with festive traditions. Here, you won’t just find angels and stars, but also delightful everyday miniatures from airplanes, slide rules, and handbags to spiders and frogs.
Balancing craftsmanship and serial production, delicate works of art emerged from Bohemian workshops around the center of Gablonz, rooted in an age-old glassmaking tradition. These fragile creations made from fine glass rods, elegantly curved bangles, intricate hollow-glass forms, and gold- or silver-plated twisted beads showcase the artistry and precision of Gablonz design.
All school levels
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
With the kind support of Rautis
Balancing craftsmanship and serial production, delicate works of art emerged from Bohemian workshops around the center of Gablonz, rooted in an age-old glassmaking tradition. These fragile creations made from fine glass rods, elegantly curved bangles, intricate hollow-glass forms, and gold- or silver-plated twisted beads showcase the artistry and precision of Gablonz design.
All school levels
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
With the kind support of Rautis
© MAK/Christian Mendez
Guided Tour and performative Fashion Workshop
Collections and Catwalks
Collections and Catwalks
The exhibition HELMUT LANG. SÉANCE DE TRAVAIL 1986–2005 offers a unique insight into the universe of visionary designer Helmut Lang, showcasing innovative approaches to clothing, presentation, and cool branding.
In this workshop, you’ll deconstruct your own unwanted garments and design your own mini collection. Present your favorite pieces and take home anything you’d like to swap! Inspired by the exhibition, we’ll then focus on staging a catwalk, using the museum building itself as your runway. We can’t wait to see your performance!
Ages: 10 to 19 years
Guided tour and workshop: 120 minutes
Price: €120 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
In this workshop, you’ll deconstruct your own unwanted garments and design your own mini collection. Present your favorite pieces and take home anything you’d like to swap! Inspired by the exhibition, we’ll then focus on staging a catwalk, using the museum building itself as your runway. We can’t wait to see your performance!
Ages: 10 to 19 years
Guided tour and workshop: 120 minutes
Price: €120 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
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
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
© MAK/Georg Mayer
Vienna 1900
The History of Art Nouveau
The MAK exhibition collection VIENNA 1900. Design/Crafts 1890-1938 presents the history of Art Nouveau in three rooms - its emergence, heyday and further development. With the focus on "Viennese Modernism" we discover the world-famous Wiener Werkstätte. We marvel at works by Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann and his counterpart Adolf Loos, tell you interesting facts about the first Austrian female architect, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, and introduce you to the artisan Rose Krenn. We look at the arts and crafts in the course of their time and take a closer look at social developments. You can expect a cultural-historical journey through time and an immersion in the atmosphere of Vienna at an exciting and contradictory turn of the century.
€ 60,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
1 hour guided tour
The History of Art Nouveau
The MAK exhibition collection VIENNA 1900. Design/Crafts 1890-1938 presents the history of Art Nouveau in three rooms - its emergence, heyday and further development. With the focus on "Viennese Modernism" we discover the world-famous Wiener Werkstätte. We marvel at works by Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann and his counterpart Adolf Loos, tell you interesting facts about the first Austrian female architect, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, and introduce you to the artisan Rose Krenn. We look at the arts and crafts in the course of their time and take a closer look at social developments. You can expect a cultural-historical journey through time and an immersion in the atmosphere of Vienna at an exciting and contradictory turn of the century.
€ 60,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
1 hour guided tour
© 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 junior grades
© 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
Arten-viel-falten!
Intertwined coexistence
We make diverse creatures using creative folding techniques. In our guided tour through the MAK Design Lab, you will learn about the relationships and interconnections of our coexistence with our planet. In the workshop that follows, we will practice origami techniques and create a variety of planetary creatures.
€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop
Intertwined coexistence
We make diverse creatures using creative folding techniques. In our guided tour through the MAK Design Lab, you will learn about the relationships and interconnections of our coexistence with our planet. In the workshop that follows, we will practice origami techniques and create a variety of planetary creatures.
€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop
© MAK/Kristina Wissik
Food - Today - Tomorrow
Table cultures and eating habits in the course of time
What should we eat and what shouldn’t we? With this workshop we cater entirely to your tastes. During a guided tour of the MAK Design Lab, we’ll gain a new perspective on ordinary and extraordinary foodstuffs and their packaging. And now it’s your turn: help us develop a new packaging design for the consumers of tomorrow.
€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop
Table cultures and eating habits in the course of time
What should we eat and what shouldn’t we? With this workshop we cater entirely to your tastes. During a guided tour of the MAK Design Lab, we’ll gain a new perspective on ordinary and extraordinary foodstuffs and their packaging. And now it’s your turn: help us develop a new packaging design for the consumers of tomorrow.
€ 120,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
2 hours guided tour and workshop
© MAK
Fantastic Creatures & Features
Forms of work of the future
What and how will we work and learn in the future? First, you can expect a guided tour and discussion on the topic of work and careers in times of digital innovation, urban innovation and against the backdrop of the climate crisis.
How will we live and work together in the future? What do we want to work for, what do we want to be passionate about? Which human skills will be required more than ever in the future and should be promoted? In a subsequent workshop, we model existing structures and bring visionary designs and fictional scenarios to old building complexes. For this purpose, we design diverse and imaginative personas that could inhabit this utopian city and dreamscape, and sketchily conceive the appropriate work clothes for them.
€ 180,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
3 hours guided tour and workshop
Forms of work of the future
What and how will we work and learn in the future? First, you can expect a guided tour and discussion on the topic of work and careers in times of digital innovation, urban innovation and against the backdrop of the climate crisis.
How will we live and work together in the future? What do we want to work for, what do we want to be passionate about? Which human skills will be required more than ever in the future and should be promoted? In a subsequent workshop, we model existing structures and bring visionary designs and fictional scenarios to old building complexes. For this purpose, we design diverse and imaginative personas that could inhabit this utopian city and dreamscape, and sketchily conceive the appropriate work clothes for them.
€ 180,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
3 hours guided tour and workshop
Senior Grades
Our interactive guided tours and workshops for schools: applied and visionary!
An exciting journey to the history of life design awaits you - through the centuries to our present. In interactive guided tours and workshops we convey the world of artistic everyday design and the history of design. We deal with old and new materials as well as almost forgotten and innovative techniques and ask ourselves what makes an everyday object art. What do we want to learn from the past and how can we design the future in a way that a sustainable coexistence on and with our planet can succeed?
Today we are facing new challenges in our lives and our everyday life, especially the climate crisis plays a central role. Design can help us to change our future and also our coexistence with our planet and to stand up for biodiversity and diversity. In an interactive and playful tour through the MAK Design Lab, we will explore circular economy and solutions for sustainable consumption. After all, sharing opportunities, repairing things, and understanding old materials as resources can help us live together in a more sustainable way.
Our diverse range of workshops is aimed squarely at the designers of the future. Here you can not only learn handicraft skills, but also think creatively together. We experiment and try things out in an artistic and exploratory way!
Do you have a special topic in mind? We will gladly try to respond to your ideas individually or to combine guided tours and workshops individually.
We also have online school offerings that you can use to prepare and follow up on your lessons.
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
© MAK/Christian Mendez
Guided Tour and Workshop
Spot the Stars and Make Your Own!
Spot the Stars and Make Your Own!
In the sparkling exhibition BICYCLE & LOBSTER, we’ll discover dazzling ornaments that captivate everyone even those who don’t usually connect with festive traditions. Here, you won’t just find angels and stars, but also charming everyday miniatures from airplanes, slide rules, and handbags to spiders and frogs.
Balancing craftsmanship and serial production, delicate artworks emerged from Bohemian workshops around the center of Gablonz, based on an age-old glassmaking tradition. Made of fine glass rods, elegantly curved bangles, intricate hollow-glass forms, and gold- or silver-plated twisted beads, these ornaments embody true artistry.
After the glittering exhibition tour, we’ll create our own glass star decorations for the holidays using original kits from the Rautis company in the Gablonz region. Creative minds and nimble fingers will mix fancy glass beads with funky materials to design whatever they dream up!
All school levels
Guided tour and workshop: 120 minutes
Price: €120 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
With the kind support of Rautis
Balancing craftsmanship and serial production, delicate artworks emerged from Bohemian workshops around the center of Gablonz, based on an age-old glassmaking tradition. Made of fine glass rods, elegantly curved bangles, intricate hollow-glass forms, and gold- or silver-plated twisted beads, these ornaments embody true artistry.
After the glittering exhibition tour, we’ll create our own glass star decorations for the holidays using original kits from the Rautis company in the Gablonz region. Creative minds and nimble fingers will mix fancy glass beads with funky materials to design whatever they dream up!
All school levels
Guided tour and workshop: 120 minutes
Price: €120 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
With the kind support of Rautis
© MAK/Christian Mendez
Guided Tour
The Blinking, Sparkling, Glittering Jewelry Tour
The Blinking, Sparkling, Glittering Jewelry Tour
In the sparkling exhibition BICYCLE & LOBSTER, we’ll discover dazzling ornaments that enchant everyone even those who don’t usually connect with festive traditions. Here, you won’t just find angels and stars, but also delightful everyday miniatures from airplanes, slide rules, and handbags to spiders and frogs.
Balancing craftsmanship and serial production, delicate works of art emerged from Bohemian workshops around the center of Gablonz, rooted in an age-old glassmaking tradition. These fragile creations made from fine glass rods, elegantly curved bangles, intricate hollow-glass forms, and gold- or silver-plated twisted beads showcase the artistry and precision of Gablonz design.
All school levels
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
With the kind support of Rautis
Balancing craftsmanship and serial production, delicate works of art emerged from Bohemian workshops around the center of Gablonz, rooted in an age-old glassmaking tradition. These fragile creations made from fine glass rods, elegantly curved bangles, intricate hollow-glass forms, and gold- or silver-plated twisted beads showcase the artistry and precision of Gablonz design.
All school levels
Guided tour: 60 minutes
Price: € 60 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
With the kind support of Rautis
© MAK/Christian Mendez
Guided Tour and performative Fashion Workshop
Collections and Catwalks
Collections and Catwalks
The exhibition HELMUT LANG. SÉANCE DE TRAVAIL 1986–2005 offers a unique insight into the universe of visionary designer Helmut Lang, showcasing innovative approaches to clothing, presentation, and cool branding.
In this workshop, you’ll deconstruct your own unwanted garments and design your own mini collection. Present your favorite pieces and take home anything you’d like to swap! Inspired by the exhibition, we’ll then focus on staging a catwalk, using the museum building itself as your runway. We can’t wait to see your performance!
Ages: 10 to 19 years
Guided tour and workshop: 120 minutes
Price: €120 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
In this workshop, you’ll deconstruct your own unwanted garments and design your own mini collection. Present your favorite pieces and take home anything you’d like to swap! Inspired by the exhibition, we’ll then focus on staging a catwalk, using the museum building itself as your runway. We can’t wait to see your performance!
Ages: 10 to 19 years
Guided tour and workshop: 120 minutes
Price: €120 per group (maximum 12 students per group)
Guided Tours for Senior Grades
© 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
© 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
Fantastic Creatures & Features
Forms of work of the future
What and how will we work and learn in the future? First, you can expect a guided tour and discussion on the topic of work and careers in times of digital innovation, urban innovation and against the backdrop of the climate crisis.
How will we live and work together in the future? What do we want to work for, what do we want to be passionate about? Which human skills will be required more than ever in the future and should be promoted? In a subsequent workshop, we model existing structures and bring visionary designs and fictional scenarios to old building complexes. For this purpose, we design diverse and imaginative personas that could inhabit this utopian city and dreamscape, and sketchily conceive the appropriate work clothes for them.
€ 180,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
3 hours guided tour and workshop
Forms of work of the future
What and how will we work and learn in the future? First, you can expect a guided tour and discussion on the topic of work and careers in times of digital innovation, urban innovation and against the backdrop of the climate crisis.
How will we live and work together in the future? What do we want to work for, what do we want to be passionate about? Which human skills will be required more than ever in the future and should be promoted? In a subsequent workshop, we model existing structures and bring visionary designs and fictional scenarios to old building complexes. For this purpose, we design diverse and imaginative personas that could inhabit this utopian city and dreamscape, and sketchily conceive the appropriate work clothes for them.
€ 180,- per group (maximum 12 students per group)
3 hours guided tour and workshop
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