The Beatles Story
If you love The Beatles, then you'll want to visit The Beatles Story in Liverpool! If you have no vision at all though, you may want to take a guide with you...
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.
Admission: Concessionary prices for disabled visitors, and carers go in free
Mobility: The museum is down some stairs. There is a small lift for wheelchair users — it fits one wheelchair and you hold a button down to move between floors. A motorised scooter will not fit, and the website suggests contacting them in advance if you use one
Audio guide: Included with admission, but operated by touchscreen. John, who is totally blind, could not use it independently, and with his hearing loss he struggled to hear it as well
Where: Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool
Prices and policies as we found them on our visit — always check with the venue before you go.
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.
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