Guided tours at the University of Vienna

The University of Vienna was founded in 1365. The building we're hosting uxcon vienna in is a spring chicken by comparison — finished in 1884 and built on a scale that only the 19th century would consider reasonable. Six centuries of university had to fit into it, and you can feel that.

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We're offering two tours, and they're quite different:

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The main building tour takes you through the arcaded courtyard and the Great Ceremonial Hall with its reproductions of Gustav Klimt's ceiling paintings. Along the way you'll get the story of the building and the university inside it – including the parts that aren't comfortable, like the years under National Socialism.

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"Women at the University of Vienna" follows a much less told thread. The first faculty didn't open its doors to women until 1897, and it took another hundred years before they got a monument of their own in the courtyard. The tour is a critical look at that long road, with a focus on the first generation of women scientists, from Elise Richter to Berta Karlik. It doesn't stop in the past either.

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Both tours are free for everyone with a ticket. Just turn up at the meeting point (entrance hall) and come along.

Spots are limited and it's first come, first served.

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Meeting point: Entrance hall (check-in area).