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Information for wheelchair users and mobility impaired visitors

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Entering Pontefract Museum

Pontefract Museum is in its own dedicated building.

There is level access into the building and throughout.

The main entrance is through a pair of non-automatic doors.

There is a bell by the main entrance if you need help opening the doors.

Moving around Pontefract Museum

You can download a floor plan of Pontefract Museum.

Pontefract Museum is level access throughout. The foyer floor is from 1904 and made of small smooth mosaic tiles. The main gallery floors are made out of parquet flooring (smooth wooden tiles).

There is an initial entrance foyer to the museum. The main gallery is through a set of double doors on your left. These are a little heavy. There will be a member of staff in the welcome space to help you open the doors if you need it.

You can reach the temporary exhibition gallery from two places. One is the single door at the back of the main gallery. The second is directly from the foyer.

If you turn right from the foyer and go down the corridor, you will find the accessible toilet on your left and the Reference Room on your right. At the end of the corridor is the Glass Room. The doors to the Reference Room and the Glass Room are usually kept propped open.

Seating at Pontefract Museum

There are some plastic seats in the foyer space.

There are seats around the activity tables in the main gallery.

There are two wooden benches in the middle of the temporary exhibition gallery.

There is seating around the main table in the Reference Room.

There is a seat by the light box in the Glass Room.

There are some collapsible, portable stools as you enter the exhibition from the entrance foyer. There are also two more portable stools available in the main gallery.

Pontefract Art Club exhibition

The Pontefract Art Club exhibition is fully level access. It is wheelchair and pushchair accessible.

The exhibition is in the special exhibition gallery. This space can be accessed by a door from the entrance foyer and a door at the back of the main gallery. These are both single manual doors. They are wide enough to fit wheelchairs through. Please ask a member of staff if you need help opening the doors.

The exhibition space is a rectangular room with smooth parquet flooring. The artworks are fixed to the walls at varying heights. Most of the artworks are framed and glazed. Some of the glass is slightly reflective.

In the middle of the gallery, there is a waist-height activity unit with surfaces at two different heights. There a range of tactile and sensory resources on this unit.

There are also two wooden benches in the middle of the gallery next to the unit.

There is ample wheelchair access around each of these central structures.