Culture, sport and educational opportunities for people with disabilities
Whether visiting a museum or attending an event - Offenbach's city center offers good conditions for guests with limited mobility.
Important streets in the city center have been adapted to meet barrier-free requirements and central disabled parking spaces have been set up. Local public transport in Offenbach also offers barrier-free access: disabled-friendly bus stops are just as much a part of this as barrier-free components in the buses and an acoustic timetable announcement for visually impaired people. This can be called up at the touch of a button at Marktplatz, Offenbach's central transfer point.
Information on barrier-free offers in Offenbach's museums or events organized by the city's cultural management as well as sports and educational offers can be found on this page.
German Leather Museum
Accessibility
The exhibitions at the German Leather Museum are barrier-free with ramps and an elevator. Disabled toilets are available, as are a wheelchair and a walker at the ticket desk. The museum staff are happy to assist visitors and provide seating during a tour.
A journey for the senses - discovering leather objects and types of leather
Guided tour for blind and visually impaired people
The DLM has put together a selection of leather objects especially for this tour, which allows all visitors to experience the material leather through its special feel and versatility. Objects such as shoes and bags from different times and cultures are presented. In addition, in the "This is leather!" project room, visitors can feel exotic leather such as shark, python, ostrich and elephant skin with their hands at touch stations from A to Z alongside the usual types of leather from cattle or sheep.
Participation fee 10 euros, one accompanying person is free.
Emotion and haptics - with all senses
For adults with intellectual disabilities
The museum education team at the DLM meets the special needs of people with intellectual disabilities through short guided tours, objects that can be experienced with the senses and creative activities that do not focus on cognitive knowledge transfer. A visit to the museum becomes an emotional experience through a sensory approach based on the real world. In consultation with the group leaders, the event is designed to suit the learning opportunities of the participants.
Participation fee: 60 euros per hour and group admission
Touching allowed!
Birthday for children and young people with visual impairments
The DLM has also put together a selection of leather objects especially for children's birthdays, which make it possible for children to experience leather as a material thanks to its special feel and versatility. Objects such as shoes or bags from different times and cultures are presented. In addition, in the "This is leather!" project room, children can feel exotic leather such as shark, python, ostrich and elephant skin with their hands at touch stations from A to Z alongside the common types of leather from cattle or sheep.
Afterwards, the children and young people can design small items such as bags or cases from leather according to their own ideas.
To ensure intensive supervision, the number of children and young people taking part is limited to 8.
Participation fee for the group for 2 hours: 100 euros
See-touch-create
Birthday for children and young people with intellectual disabilities
A sensory approach to the DLM exhibitions and workshops also opens up an attractive event for children and young people with intellectual disabilities.
In order to enable intensive supervision, the number of children and young people taking part is limited to 8 people.
Participation fee for the group for 2 hours: 100 euros
Contact
Deutsches Ledermuseum
Frankfurter Strasse 86
63067 Offenbach am Main
Telephone: 069 829798-0
E-mail: infoledermuseumde
Further information:
House of City History
Accessibility
The museum in the Haus der Stadtgeschichte has a stair lift for wheelchair users in the entrance area as well as an elevator.
For people with visual impairments
An audio guide system is available for visually impaired people, which presents all eras and their most important exhibits: for example, the Celtic chariot tomb, the d'Orville doll's house from 1757 or a historical lithographic press.
There is also a rollator and seating for individual visitors.
The museum staff are always happy to help.
Contact the museum
House of the City History Offenbach
Museum
Herrnstrasse 61
63065 Offenbach
Telephone 069 8065- 2446 or -2646
E-mail: haus-der-stadtgeschichteoffenbachde
Klingspor Museum
Accessibility
The Klingspor Museum is a museum for book and literary art in the heart of Offenbach. The listed building in the Büsingpalais is barrier-free thanks to a stair lift, elevator and ramp.
The new permanent exhibition is equipped with low display cases, a low screen terminal and hands-on areas on table surfaces, which are well suited for visitors in wheelchairs.
For people with visual impairments
Many of the museum's exhibits are characterized by unusual materials, surfaces and a special feel, which can be presented and explained to blind and visually impaired people in the reading room.
Appointments by arrangement
Contact the museum
Klingspor Museum
Herrnstrasse 80
63065 Offenbach
Telephone 069 8065 -2164 or - 2954
E-mail: klingspormuseumoffenbachde
Regionalpark Portal Wetterpark Offenbach
Guided tours of the Offenbach Weather Park
The weather is not made in the weather city of Offenbach. But it is analyzed here - by the meteorologists of the German Weather Service. To ensure that an understanding of the sun, wind and clouds is not reserved for experts alone, there is the Weather Park - an interactive adventure trail for the whole family. The route is at ground level and barrier-free.
Amidst young groves of trees, 13 exhibits provide vivid information about weather components and weather observation. The theme park can be explored on your own or under expert guidance. Find out what the earth has in common with an apple. Get to know the colors of the sky. And marvel at the true-to-scale replica of a weather satellite.
Accessibility
There is a wheelchair for hire and an accessible toilet, assistance dogs are welcome and disabled parking spaces are also available.
Guided tours for people with disabilities
On request, the Wetterpark offers guided tours in plain language, guided tours for the hard of hearing and deaf and guided tours with detailed descriptions and buttons for blind and visually impaired visitor groups.
Wetterpark Offenbach will be happy to provide individual advice on the offers and is available to answer any further questions. Please contact the staff at the visitor center in the Wetterpark.
Individual group tours of the Wetterpark are offered, the duration of a tour is between
The duration of a tour is between 90 minutes and 120 minutes.
Maximum group size 20 people, for larger groups we recommend requesting several Weather Park guides.
Weather Park Visitor Center
The exhibition in the visitor center complements and deepens the meteorological knowledge of the Weather Park theme park. Above all, however, the permanent exhibition with its many interactive stations offers exciting and entertaining insights into the phenomena in the sky, regardless of adverse weather conditions.
There is also an exhibition on the RhineMain Regional Park. Get to know the charm of the urban landscape in a playful way or pick up tips and leisure maps for an excursion into the countryside.
Contact and advice
Regionalpark Portal Wetterpark
At the weather park 15
63071 Offenbach on the Main
Telephone 069 83836896
E-mail: wetterparkofinfocenterde
Culinary themed tour
OF loves U "EsskulTour"
OF loves U - is the title of the successful adventure and discovery tours through Offenbach, which provide interesting insights into a city with many cultures and a diverse art and creative scene. The "EsskulTour" is one of the classics on offer and is particularly suitable for wheelchair users. The two-hour tour promises not only a visit to the highest restaurant in the city, but also a little trip around the world: from the Mevlana Mosque and the Bayram market to Suriashani's Indian specialties. This is followed by a detour to the L'Abbate cheese factory and a market tour on Wilhelmsplatz.
The number of participants is limited to 15.
Price: on request
Note: For groups of 15 people or more, tours are offered outside the regular schedule; the dates and content can be arranged flexibly. Please send your request to: tourenoflovesucom
Contact us
Offenbacher-Stadtinformation-Gesellschaft mbH
OF InfoCenter
Salzgäßchen 1
63065 Offenbach
Telephone 069 840004-170
E-Mail: infoosg-ofde
Further information:
Disability and rehabilitation sports
People with disabilities who enjoy exercise, sport and games can request disability and rehabilitation sports offers from the Sports Management Department of the City of Offenbach.
Contact
Office for Culture and Sports Management
Sports Management Department
Berliner Straße 60
63065Offenbach
E-mail: sportoffenbachde
Education
Volkshochschule Offenbach
In principle, all events at the Volkshochschule Offenbach (vhs) are open to people with disabilities. Due to the different teaching locations, interested participants are requested to inform themselves in advance about the spatial conditions and to coordinate any necessary measures with the vhs in advance.
Accessibility
The vhs building, Berliner Straße 77, has a disabled WC and a disabled parking space at the Französisches Gässchen/Glockengasse entrance.
Adult Education Center Offenbach
Berliner Strasse 77
63065 Offenbach
Telephone 069 8065-3154
E-mail: vhsoffenbachde