Tate Britain Tour | Access

Material as Message Audio Description Tour

26 May 2023 at 11.00–12.30

Anya Gallaccio, preserve ‘beauty’ 1991–2003. Tate. © Anya Gallaccio. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery.

A tour of the Material as Message display for blind and partially sighted visitors

Join our guide Andrew Lamont for a tour of five major sculptures from the turn of the 21st Century from the Material as Message display.

The tour will include the opportunity to touch two of the five sculptures on display and to access handling objects for the other three.

Gallery stools, earphones for hearing support and Tate staff for arm on arm guiding are all available for this event.

Tate Britain's step-free entrance is on Atterbury Street. It has automatic sliding doors and there is a ramp down to the entrance with central handrails.

There is a lift between the Lower and Main floors. Alternatively you can take the stairs.

Accessible and standard toilets are located on the Lower floor.
A Changing Places toilet is not currently available.
Ear defenders can be borrowed from the ticket desk on the Lower floor.

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