Accessible Britain

LONDON
London Transport Museum
ther adapted facilities are available on the lower floor gallery and in the shop, by the
Upper Deck Café and library. Lifts and long (but not steep) ramps, which are suitable
for unaccompanied wheelchair users, provide access to all areas of the museum. The
audio-visual guides are all subtitled or fitted with loops, and there are induction loops
at the ticket desk, cloakroom, library and information desk. The museum website is
informative and worth checking for new features. BSL interpreters can be arranged.
FOOD & DRINK aa The Upper Deck and Lower Deck café bars serve good quality food and
drink. Upstairs you can sit on Northern Line benches and sip a “tube-themed” cocktail
or smoothie; downstairs is a small picnic area where you can eat your own lunches.
013 Royal Academy of Arts
Address: Burlington House, Piccadilly W1J OBD Web: www.royalacademy.org.uk Tel: 020 73008000;
access information 020 73008058 (limited service); disabled parking & wheelchair hire 020 73008058
Hours: daily 10am–6pm; Fri till 10pm; last admission 30 mins before closing Dates: closed 24–26 Dec
Entry: permanent exhibitions and Fine Rooms tour free; prices vary for visiting exhibitions
Tucked in a private courtyard off Piccadilly, the Royal Academy of Arts was founded
by George III and has long been governed by artists – the present board includes David
Hockney and Tracey Emin. Famous for its summer exhibition of some ten thousand
works, to which any artist can submit a piece, it is one of Britain’s premier galleries.
Burlington House, home of the Royal Academy, is an elaborate piece of architecture
that provides a striking setting. Free, hour-long guided tours are offered of the John Madejski
Fine Rooms, a collection of opulent, eighteenth-century salons resplendent with gold
columns, decorative ceilings and other Baroque and Neoclassical features. Works from
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