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Pre-School Children

These guided tours are adapted to the needs and skills of pre-school children. To interest them in the fundamentals of biology, children are given the opportunity not only to look at exhibits, but also to get up close and touch them. By comparing the objects with their own world they learn about the size, living strategies, adaptation, and behavior of living creatures.

Compilation of tours for pre-school children (pdf, 47 kb)

Duration:	50 minutes
Price:	€ 5.00 per person, minimum fee € 75.00
Group size:	max. 25 children
Admission:	free of charge for children; free admission for 2 accompanying adults for every 17 children
Booking:	Recommended three weeks in advance +43 1 52177-335 (Mon 14 - 17; Wed to Fri 9 - 12) Registration for groups of 15 people and up without an educational program is required through the registration form.

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Big and Strong

Gorillas, elephants, giraffes, blue whales, golden eagles and giant clams – these are all living creatures of impressive size and strength. Children can compare their own weight with that of various heavyweight animals, test their strength, and even see how they measure up against a whale.

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Favourite Animals

Guided tour à la carte: The group names 4 favourite animals and we accompany the children to the animals. Together we explore where and how they live, what they eat and how they move around. Colourful picture cards and careful observation help us find the answers.

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Forest Animals

Children learn about animals that are native to Austrian forests. Traces of food, excrement, fruits and seeds, leaves and buds gives children the chance to touch and understand this woodland habitat.

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Sea Animals

Together we go in search of animals that are native to the world’s seas. Where do they live? What do they eat? Do they have scales, feathers, or fur? Clam and snail shells, starfish, and cuttlefish bones are waiting to be discovered.

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Fairytale Animals

On a walk through the museum the children meet many animals familiar to them from fairytales. Is the wolf really so bad? Who is quicker, the hare or the hedgehog? And are all frogs really the sons of kings?

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Cats

Most children are familiar with cats. They know their soft fur and their sharp claws. In the museum the children learn about early ancestors of the modern-day domestic cat and many of their relatives such as the now extinct saber-toothed cats, lions, and tigers.

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Our Earth

Fire – water – earth – air – life. This guided tour provides children with lots of exciting knowledge on our planet from our newly renovated Hall 6.

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Dinosaurs

Children can marvel at life-sized models of dinosaurs which they are mostly already familiar with from books and films. Further highlights include touching a real dinosaur bone and learning about other animals and plants that were alive when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

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Monkeying Around

How much monkey do we have in us? The school children learn how our closest relatives – gorillas, orangutans and chimpanzees – live. In the Department of Anthropology they get the chance to see what early humans looked like, how they moved, and which tools they used.

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Mammoths and Mammoth Hunters

Which Ice Age animals did Paleolithic hunters and gatherers meet on the plains? What was life like in the steppe when mammoths were alive? School children can see real skeletons of Ice Age animals, a hut made from mammoth bones and a life-size mammoth with baby.

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Stone Age

Our journey starts during the Paleolithic, the time of hunter-gatherers. The children can see what the site of the discovery of the Venus of Willendorf would have looked like 30.000 years ago. We continue into the Neolithic, passing through Austria's first farming village. The journey ends in the Copper Age, the time of Ötzi the Iceman. Animations and colorful illustrations reveal to the children how humans used to live.

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Animals in Winter

A hunt for tracks in the museum: the traces of animals lead the kids through the museum. Together they can think what strategies different animals have to survive the winter.

Offered 15 November 2023 to 19 February 2024.

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All About the Egg

Whether hard or soft, thick-shelled or rubbery, round or angular – eggs always have something in common: a young is growing within them. In the museum the kids can compare different eggs and match them with the species they belong to. Afterwards we take a tour through the collections, looking at birds, fish, crocodiles, and many other egg-laying animals.

Offered from 21 February to 15 April 2024.

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