Parking

Designated spaces are available in the parking garage for visitors with disabilities. The clearance is six feet, six inches (6' 6"). Alternate arrangements can be made in advance for visitors with disabilities traveling in oversized vehicles. Please call 212-650-2010, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. See Getting Here for parking rates and hours.

Service Animals

Service animals are welcome in the Museum.

Wheelchairs

The Museum is accessible to wheelchair users and other visitors who need to avoid stairs. Accessible entrances are located at Fifth Avenue and 81st Street and through the parking garage at Fifth Avenue and 80th Street.

Wheelchairs are available free of charge at coat-check areas on a first-come, first-served basis. Advance reservations are not available.

Elevators and escalators are located throughout the building. The Museum's Access Map(PDF) is available at Information Desks.

Arrangements may be made for a volunteer to escort wheelchair users in the Museum.

Assistive Listening Devices

A limited number of FM assistive listening devices (headsets and neck loops) for Museum tours and programs are available at the Audio Guide Desk in the Great Hall.

Induction loops are located at the Information and Membership Desks and at select Admissions Desks in the Great Hall and Burke Hall in the Uris Center for Education, as well as at the Concerts and Lectures box office in the Great Hall.

Real-Time Captioning

Real-time captioning for lectures can be provided upon request. Requests for this service can be made up to three weeks before the date of the lecture; however, this accommodation is contingent upon the availability of captioners.

Sign Language Interpretation

The Museum offers a variety of programs with Sign Language interpretation and in American Sign Language with voice interpretation on a regular basis.

Large Print

Large-print labels are available for some special exhibitions. They can be found in dispensers at exhibition entrances.

Audio Guide

     

Audio Guide players are free for visitors who are blind or partially sighted. Transcripts in regular and large print are also available. 

Public Telephones

Wheelchair-accessible public telephones, as well as telephones with volume control, are located in the Museum. See the Access Map (PDF) for locations.

For Visitors with Hearing Loss

Assistive Listening Devices

Gallery talks, lectures, and symposia with FM assistive listening devices are scheduled on a regular basis. Search the calendar for upcoming dates. You may also sign up to receive a bimonthly listing of these events via email.

A limited number of FM assistive listening devices for other programs are available at the Audio Guide Desk in the Great Hall. The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium and the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education are equipped with infrared sound enhancement systems (with headsets and neck loops). To obtain a headset or neck loop in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, please ask an usher. For headsets and neck loops for programs in the Uris Center for Education, speak to the instructor for the program you are attending. Headsets and neck loops are available free of charge with identification.

Select Information and Admissions Desks in the Great Hall and Diane W. Burke Hall in the Uris Center for Education are equipped with induction loops. Look for the blue signs indicating locations.

Audio Guide players have headsets and volume control. A limited number of neck loops for hearing aids with T-switches are available. Transcripts in standard and large print are available for all Audio Guide programming. Audio Guide players are free to visitors who are hard of hearing, Deaf, blind, or partially sighted.