Planning a Visit

Information for Groups

Specially designed tours through the special and permanent exhibitions are offered for groups and school classes from grammar school to high school. The tours ordinarily last 60 minutes, if no other arrangements have been made. Immediately after a tour or program, it is possible for the group to once again visit the exhibition. If you have special wishes, please mention these at the time of booking. Available subjects are:

• Prehistory
• Roman era
• Cathedral treasure
• Modern era

Tours of the special exhibitions

Registration

In any event, please register your group, even if you have not booked a program or tour. Since we handle as many as 1,000 groups for our large special exhibitions, you will have to reckon with long delays, absent prior registration.

Please plan to arrive about 15 minutes early for your tour to allow time at the cashier and coat check. Special storage rooms are available for groups because coats, heavy jackets, large bags, backpacks, and umbrellas may not be taken into the exhibitions for insurance reasons.

Information for Families

Please do not take any food or drink into the exhibition areas. In the Museum’s Forum, you will find the Salian café. Our colleagues at the Information Desk will gladly show you a quiet place where you can enjoy a break for refreshments.

The exhibitions are barrier-free and walkable with ramps and elevators. We ask, however, that for safety reasons, no baby carriages be taken into the exhibition rooms. We have available at the Information Desk carrier frames for babies and strollers for small children. A diaper changing room may be found on the ground floor, right next to the toilets.

Coat check

Please leave your coats, winter jackets, large bags and umbrellas at the coat check, before you enter the exhibition rooms. Bags and umbrellas constitute a safety hazard, both for other visitors as well as for the objects in the Museum.

Damp clothes inflict significant damage on moisture-sensitive exhibits. Since the humidity in the exhibition rooms has to remain constant, we try very hard to minimize disturbances. We ask your understanding.

Barrier-free

Visitors with wheelchairs can reach all exhibition rooms via elevator or ramp. Wheelchair access to the Museum is available at the side entrance. Please ring the bell there. At the Service Point in the museum foyer, wheel chairs and portable collapsible stools are available. Toilets for handicapped visitors may be found on the ground floor.

No Smoking

Smoking is prohibited in the entire museum building.