National Motor Museum, Beaulieu

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John Montagu Building, Beaulieu, Brockenhurst

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Features:
  • Accessible parking spaces
  • Accessible toilets
  • Personal assistance
  • Step-free access
  • Help points
  • Lifts
  • Changing Places

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ecologisttobe ecologisttobe

The motor museum and Top Gear section are pretty accessible with ramps and lifts available.

The palace house isn’t that accessible except on part of ground floor. It is all gravel to get to the house too.

The toilet I used was small and didn’t flush properly. Red cord was also tied up.

matt85 matt85

The national motor museum houses a wide variety of cars and motorbikes from the early years of motoring to more modern vehicles. There is also an abbey, house, gardens monorail and many other activities. It’s also home to many car meets.
When you arrive there is a separate disabled car park on the left just past the main entrance. The entrance building has level access but has large, glass doors that are heavy to open. Carer gets in for free.
The museum building has a gentle slope leading up to it and in through more large, glass heavy doors. When I last went they had no automatic door entry for the disabled. The entrance is level.
The flooring varies throughout the museum but is either brick, or a grey flat and grippy surface. All easy to wheel on. A shallow ramp connects the two sides of the upper floor and a glass lift takes you down to the ground floor. All exhibits are easily viewable. The wheels ride is not accessible to full time wheelchair users, you have to be able to step onto the ride.
The world of Top Gear is in a large marquee outside the museum and also has level access. Again no automatic doors. The flooring is a hard plastic matting which is easy with a wheelchair.
The gardens are all wheelchair accessible with level ground, the paths are either gravel or tarmac.
The house has access to the lower level only due to it being a listed building so no lift is available to the first floor, the guides can provide you a tablet so you can view the upper floor. There’s two steps down into the dining area and kitchen shop, if you’d like to see these rooms the guides will take you into a private entrance which gives level access.
The lower levels of the Abbey are wheelchair accessible but not the Domus, inside is paved and there’s also an accessible toilet here. The ruins are accessed via a gravel path.
The secret army museum is accessed via a slight incline into the entrance but is fully accessible.
The bus and monorail aren’t wheelchair accessible due to needing to climb the steps to get on.
The cafe is wheelchair accessible via a ramp and the toilets below are accessed via a ramp at the other end of the cafe building.

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