Take your time visiting the United Nations headquarters in Vienna

Rates

Minimum of 20 tickets per booking; prices incl. online booking fee

Adults: 23.85€ per person

Students, Retirees, Military, People with disabilities: 20.67€ per person

Children, School pupils: 11.13€ per person

Accompanying person for groups of minors: 2 accompanying persons free per class (3 for integration classes).

Private tour for small groups <20 people: Flatrate equal to the cost of 20 tickets

Duration

An extended UN Vienna tour takes about one and a half hours.

Languages

Subject to the availability of tour guides, group tours may be requested in Arabic, Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Hausa, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Turkish.

About

A one-and-a half hour tour offers visitors the opportunity to visit the inside of the United Nations complex in Vienna's 22nd District and learn about the work of the Vienna-based organisations of the United Nations.

Tour outline Each tour is led by one of our multilingual tour guides who can easily tailor the tour to any level of prior knowledge.

He or she will introduce the United Nations organization and its efforts to 'transform our world' through the Sustainable Development Goals. The Vienna International Centre is home to members of the United Nations family working on many aspects of peace and security, human rights and development. They seek to use atoms for peace and development, to reduce poverty through inclusive and sustainable industrial development, to ban nuclear testing, to bring the benefits of the peaceful uses of outer space to every part of the world, to remove legal obstacles to international trade, and to make the world safer from drugs, crime and terrorism.

The tour will also take in the history and architecture of the Vienna International Centre, and explain exhibits along the tour route illustrating the work that goes on here. Visitors will usually have a chance to see one of the conference rooms where international negotiations take place, and can enjoy some of the fine art works on display at the Vienna International Centre, such as an original Hundertwasser. A highlight for many young visitors is a real moonrock on loan to the UN in Vienna from NASA.

The tour route can vary for operational reasons, so requests for specific areas that interest you should be communicated before the tour.

Teaching resources Teachers visiting with a school group receive a free printed reference guide to on-line teaching resources and other materials at the end of the tour.

Important Information

When preparing for an on-site visit to the VIC, please bear in mind the following:

• You will have to pass a security check requiring a valid official identification document (national ID card, passport or driving licence; a paper copy or a photo of the ID is not acceptable).
• As the security check might get busy, we recommend arriving at the VIC at least 15 minutes before the scheduled starting time of the tour.
• Small bags may be carried on tour. For security reasons there is no possibility to store luggage at the VIC.
• The Visitors Service is closed on weekends and the official UN Holidays and there are no tours during the year-end period (21.12.2024-5.1.2025). 

Contact

Please email us at tours.vienna[at]un.org in case of any questions about your booking.

More information about visiting the United Nations in Vienna: www.unvienna.org/visit