The Beatles Story

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We visited The Beatles Story, located at the Royal Albert Dock in Liverpool. As you can probably tell from the name, this is a museum about The Beatles.

The museum itself is located down some stairs. However, there is a small lift available for wheelchair users to use. It is one of those small lifts that will fit one wheelchair and you have to hold a button down to get to the floor you wish to go to. If you use a motorised scooter, it will not fit in the lift but the website does suggest that you get in touch with them if you do use a scooter.

There are concessionary prices for disabled people to get in and carers go for free. After you have paid, you are supplied with an audio guidebook. The guidebook is full of interesting information about the exhibits that you are looking at but, unfortunately, it has a touchscreen to operate it, so if you are visually impaired you may have difficulty in seeing the touchscreen to operate the guidebook. As John has no vision at all, he was unable to use the guidebook by himself. Another issue that John had was that with his hearing loss, he had difficulty in hearing what the guidebook was saying, and was relying on me to both operate the guidebook and tell him what it was saying.

The museum is laid out so that it goes in chronological order from The Beatles’ early beginnings and rise to fame, to what individual band members did after The Beatles split.

I found it really enjoyable and interesting, and would definitely visit again. However, John isn’t sure that he would want to as I don’t think he got as much out of the visit as I did.

The video is below.