Access Guide
Access To
- The Caphouse exhibition area is an open area at the rear of the site.
- The distance from the Blue Badge parking bays is 90m.
- The most accessible route has slight ramps or slopes, steep ramps or slopes, uneven surfaces, manual doors and automatic doors.
Exhibition Space
- Exhibits vary between internal and external.
- The following areas have step-free access via ramps or slopes: there are slopes and ramps of varying degree throughout the entire exhibition area.
- Access throughout may include uneven surfaces, manual doors and narrow openings.
- There is some room for a wheelchair user to manoeuvre (150cm x 150cm).
- The following may be experienced here: audio triggered by a sensor and audio triggered by the visitor.
- There may be background noise.
- Lighting levels vary due to the size of the space.
- There is not a hearing assistance system.
- Guided tours are available.
- Access throughout the tour may include uneven surfaces, narrow walkways and narrow openings.
- Wayfinding signage is provided throughout the tour.
- The Underground Tour is accessed via miner's cage lift and is cramped and dark in places.