Accessibility
Click below to view our virtual tour
- Click the tags to find information about particular areas or exhibits
- Blue tags for information, green tags include audio recordings of that area.
- We will be updating the tour as exhibits change and adding areas to it in due course
- Made in collaboration with GoVirtually
- We'd love to hear your thoughts and keep improving the tour - please let us know your feedback here
We want your experience with us to be as good as it can be so we have lots of accessible facilities.
A prayer room is available on request, please call 0117 915 1000 (Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm, excluding Bank Holidays) to arrange.
Families
Breast-feeding friendly throughout (private space available upon request)
Plenty of places to take a rest throughout
Lockers in the venue (subject to availability and left at owners’ risk)
A pushchair and wheelchair friendly café with high chairs, free bottle and food warming facilities and children’s meals (all freshly made on the premises and sourced locally, where possible)
You can also bring your own food into the venue or eat outside in Millennium or Anchor Square
Visitors with limited mobility and wheelchair users
Free admission for dedicated assistants
Level access, with lifts to all floors
Fully accessibly on-site car park, adapted pay stations and fully-automated doors onto Millennium Square - for vehicles over two metres high, due to height restrictions, please contact us in advance.
Drop-off points for minibuses and coaches
Disabled toilet facilities throughout the venue - accessible toilets and a Changing Places facility
Wheelchair spaces are available in the Planetarium (please contact us in advance to arrange)
Wheelchairs can be loaned for the duration of your visit (subject to availability)
Our venue hire spaces are also fully accessible for people with limited mobility and wheelchair users.
Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing visitors
Free admission for dedicated assistants
For bookings and information, a Minicom system is available on 0117 914 3475
Hearing loop in the Planetarium
We plan to have BSL signers available in the future and will update this page as soon as this is available
Blind and partially sighted visitors
Free admission for dedicated sighted assistants (sighted assistants are recommended for your visit).
Guide and assistance dogs are welcome.
Exhibits have been especially designed to cater for visually impaired visitors; this includes colour contrasts and font size on all the interactive exhibits.
Visitors with autism
- Prepare for your visit by taking our Virtual Tour
- On arrival you can request over-head ear defenders
- We have weighted blankets and a quieter room with low level lighting
- Please note this room doubles up as a first aid room so there are shelves with supplies
- If this is not suitable a member of staff will do their best to accommodate
Changing Places facility
- The Changing Places facility is open to all users to the Harbourside area during our opening hours, regardless of whether you’re visiting We The Curious or not
- It's on the ground floor, just off the exhibition floor beyond the entry tills
- You’ll need a Radar DAR key to access the room, but if you don’t have one, just ask our staff at the Welcome Desk who can help you - they're also trained on how to use the facility
- You'll also need to bring your own sling
- You can find full information and details of exactly what's in the facility on the Changing Places website here.
