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Christmas Eve kids specials at Viennese museums

By Thomas Hochwarter

Museums and other institutions across Vienna are offering various opportunities for the entertainment of children on Christmas Eve while parents make preparations for the big celebration at home.

Cookie-baking and handicraft courses will be on offer at City Hall until 5pm on 24 December while a puppet theatre will give performances at 1:30pm and 2:30pm.

There will be performances by a puppet theatre at the city’s Hofmobiliendepot five times between 10:30am and 3pm on Thursday. Organisers have announced it is necessary make reservations by sending an e-mail to info@hofmobiliendepot or calling +43 1 524 33 57-0 to attend the performances. Tickets for the Hofmobiliendepot puppet theatre "Der verschwundene Weihnachtsbaum" (The disappeared Christmas tree) cost 4.50 Euros.

At the Kindermuseum Schloss Schönbrunn (Schönbrunn Palace Children’s Museum), children will learn how members of the Habsburg family used to celebrate Christmas.

Bosses at Vienna’s aqua terra zoo "Haus des Meeres," meanwhile, have announced children can stroke and feed lizards, monkeys, birds, snakes and other animals between 10am and 5pm.

The Technical Museum will stage spectacular high-voltage experiments on 24 December. The museum will be open between 9am and 3pm on Christmas Eve, it has been announced. Children aged 16 or younger can enter the museum free of charge.

Austrian Times

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