Accessibility

Access

The Bach Museum is located in a historic baroque building. In the entrance area, there is a drop of approx. 4 cm. The entrance door to the Bach Museum can be opened with a pushbutton.

The entrance door to the museum ticket office is equipped with an overhead door closer with freeswing function. The door can therefore be operated without any effort. If you still have difficulty entering the ticket office, please contact the museum attendants, who will be glad to help you.
The exhibition areas on the 1st floor and the concert hall on the 2nd floor are accessible by lift.

Toilets

There is a disabled toilet in the museum foyer, marked with a pictogram and accessible from both sides.

Cloakroom/lockers

The cloakroom/lockers are located at ground level in the museum foyer.

Wheelchair access

Most of the exhibition areas are easily accessible for wheelchair users. For technical reasons, the large media table in the research laboratory is higher than 100 cm and cannot be moved underneath. The passageway to the Film Cabinet is only 60 cm wide due to the historical building fabric. A sound room is separated from the adjoining exhibition rooms by soundproof felt curtains. The help of an accompanying person is required here. The attendants will be glad to help you enter this exhibition room. There is a place for a wheelchair user in the entrance area of the listening cabinet. The listening station can be swivelled.

Deaf people

You can borrow a multimedia guide with a video tour in German sign language.

The guided tour is also available as a free app in the Apple Store and the Google Play Store.

Hearing aid users

Sound and listening stations are equipped with induction loops, and pictograms indicate the corresponding exhibition areas.

For the audio tour of the Bach Museum, you can borrow a telesling that transmits the tour to your hearing aid. The audio guides and teleslings are available free of charge at the Bach Museum. To use the technology, you need a hearing aid with a T-coil (set the hearing aid to the T or MT position). The audio guide is available in 10 different language versions.

Blind/visually impaired people

A tactile overview map in the museum foyer provides information about the Bach Museum. The map provides information about the service areas, the exhibition tour and the sound, hearing and tactile stations that have been set up for blind and visually impaired people and equipped with Braille.

The exhibition has no guidance system for blind people, but guide dogs are welcome.

In the museum foyer you can also borrow an audio guide for blind and visually impaired people free of charge for a deposit (identity card or similar), which also includes directions. The audio guide can be operated like an iPhone via the voice-over function. Please let us know before your visit if you need audio guides for a larger group. We will prepare the devices for you. The guided tour is also available as a free app in the Apple Store and the Google Play Store.

For groups we offer the »guided tour with touch«. In this museum educational programme, replicas of historical musical instruments, copies of baroque clothing, a bust of Johann Sebastian Bach and the original model of the famous Bach monument by Carl Ludwig Seffner can be explored by touch.

Guided tour with touch: reduced admission, plus € 2.00 guide fee per person; accompanying persons receive free admission.

Learning and mentally handicapped people

We offer an audio tour in easy-to-understand language. You can choose between two different devices. Both are easy to use.

The tour is also available as an app. You can download it free of charge from the Apple Store and Google Play on your own smartphone.

There is a museum guide in easy language. You can find it for download in the right-hand column on this page. The museum guides in easy language are also available at the museum.

For groups we offer guided tours with the museum educators. We will be glad to put together a programme for you. Please contact us!

People on the autistic spectrum (Sensory Friendly)

Together with LunA - Leipzig and Autismus e.V., the Bach Museum Leipzig has developed documents that enable people on the autistic spectrum to visit the museum in a self-determined way.

You can find more information about this under Sensory Friendly.

Contact

Phone +49 341 9137-214
Fax +49 341 9137-205
E-mail museumspaedagogik@bach-leipzig.de