Disabled Access Day returns on Saturday 12 March 2016
The annual Disabled Access Day is set for its second year on Saturday 12 March 2016 and aims to encourage disabled people, their friends and families to visit somewhere new, whether that’s a coffee shop, cinema, museum, gallery, sports centre or anywhere else.
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums is joining over 100 venues that have already signed up to take part in the day, with many special treats planned for visitors with disabilities.
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Disabled Access Day - What's on and where?
- The Twisting Ducks Theatre Company for people with profound learning disabilities presents a new tactile exhibit featuring Freda the Musical Octopus.
- Blind and partially sighted people and their friends and families can enjoy free guided tours of the Newcastle Story and Story of the Tyne galleries (advance booking essential).
- Disabled people and their friends and families can go behind the scenes of the Great North Museum: Hancock with a free guided tour of its Resource Centre at Discovery Museum (advance booking essential).
- 20 free places are available for disabled people and their friends and families to view the exhibition Leonardo Da Vinci: Ten Drawings from the Royal Collection (advance booking essential).
- Disabled people and their friends and families can enjoy a free guided exhibition tour of The Extraordinary Gertrude Bell (advance booking essential).
- Deaf people/BSL users and their friends and families can enjoy a free illustrated talk about the many treasures at South Shields Museum. An optional tour of the museum’s brand new Treasures gallery follows (advance booking essential).
- Disabled people and their friends and families can enjoy free admission to Segedunum, the most excavated fort along Hadrian's Wall.
The following venues are also open for visitors to browse:
