At Es Baluard Museu, we understand accessibility to be a fundamental right, and the museum is committed to it, involving itself in its constant renovation in accordance with the demands of society.
Barriers can take on diverse forms, and may be classified in two large groups: physical and intellectual. Some of the measures to be taken by cultural institutions in order to overcome them are, in the case of the physical impediments, ramps and lifts and in the case of intellectual obstacles, programmes and posters for different levels and cognitive codes, as well as the use of multimedia.
The museum is 100% adapted to disabled persons with movement difficulties.
For the most part the museum complies with the regulations for accessibility and the removal of architectural barriers in Decree 96/1994. The museum has installed ramps that run from floor 0 to 2, complying with the limits in terms of gradients of 8%.
In addition, two lifts were installed, one running from floor 0 to the direct exit to the central patio, and another, with 3 cabins, providing access from floor 0 to floor 2.
The museum places a wheelchair at the disposal of visitors who require it to facilitate movement around the different spaces.
Guide dogs and assistance dogs are admitted to the entire museum enclosure.
There are adapted washbasins on floor 0 and floor 1 for visitors with disabilities, in accordance with the conditions of current regulations.
Es Baluard carries out inclusive proposals and projects adapted with and for the different collective, working alongside them. In this way we develop proposals committed to the standardisation and active participation of all of society, taking into consideration those who have all types of difficulties in integrating normally into cultural tours and experiences. Personalised and adapted visits are also provided for groups with special difficulties upon request.
Our aim is to guarantee the attention, quality and full integration of diverse publics, until attaining universal accessibility in all areas (architectural, human and content-related).
Note on inclusivity
An inclusive cultural institution is committed to including all of the agents, communities and diverse groups that wish to form part of it. In basic terms, inclusivity involves both intellectual and physical accessibility issues, materialising for example in the attention the museum pays to generating spaces that are habitable and understandable for all kinds of people. On a deeper level, inclusivity is also connected to the objective of working with the museum’s publics, enabling them to participate and at the same time turning them into agents and a force for change of the institution itself. This has deep repercussions on the very composition of the cultural institution, giving rise to changes in departmental structures, policies of representation and temporal and spatial dynamics.
