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Accessibility at Museums and Libraries

The facilities below offer varying degrees of accessibility.  If you have any specific needs please ring the venue to discuss.

Address
Contact details
Accessibility Information
Ashmolean Museum,
Beaumont Street
01865 278000
www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk
All areas accessible. Shop, Café and Disabled facilities.
Bate Collection of  
Historical Instruments,
Faculty of Music,
St Aldate's
01865 286261
www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk
Ramp to front entrance. No wheelchair access to small part of museum upstairs.
Bodleian Library,
Broad Street
01865 277224 Entrance and Quad level from Catte Street, doors opened by prior request. One step to foyer plus one step into Divinity School. Rest of library not open to public. New visitor centre planned.
Christ Church Picture Gallery 01865 276172 No wheelchair access into museum - 8 steps. Disabled WC.
Oriel Square
Museum of the 
History of Science,
Broad Street
01865 277280
www.mhs.ox.ac.uk
New areas, lift to whole of basement and Disabled WC accessible by lift.
Modern Art Oxford,
Pembroke Street 
01865 722733
www.modernartoxford.org.uk
Fully accessible with lift and Disabled WC.
Museum of Oxford, 
St Aldate's
01865 252761 Stairs to main entrance but can be accessed through Town Hall to one
level. Audio tour available for visually
impaired. A video 'Oxford - The
Story of a City and its People' is
available for those unable to access
the museum.
Pitt Rivers Museum, 
Parks Road
01865 270927
www.prm.ox.ac.uk
Fully accessible with Disabled WC. Entrance by side door from South
Park Road, parking available with
prior notice. Audio guide available for visually impaired.
The Oxford University
Museum of
Natural History, 
Parks Road 
01865 272950
www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/oum
Access for wheelchairs to ground floor only. Entrance by side automatic doors, then wheelchair stairlift. Disabled WC. No direct wheelchair access to Pitt Rivers Museum.
Central Library
Westgate
01865 815509 Auto-doors, fully accessible, lift to all  floors.
Induction loop, large-print section, Braille service to order. Disabled WC







Page last reviewed 24 Jan 2011

Access Officer

Town Hall

St Aldate's

Oxford

OX1 1BX

01865 252531


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