Accessibility

Our team at GES-2 House of Culture aims to provide equal access to culture for all visitors, regardless of their individualities, experience or age.

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access@ges-2.org

Adapting our projects and developing special programmes, which are designed to meet the needs and expectations of people with disabilities, as well as other underrepresented groups, we try to involve experts with relevant experience.

This experience allows us to enrich our understanding of the range of possibilities open to our visitors, and assists us in developing and adapting our programmes.

Our goal is to ensure physical and information accessibility for all the projects and activities of the GES-2 House of Culture, and also to create conditions for collective creativity and sociocultural interactions for a wide variety of people.

Accessible and adaptated events 

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Ensuring accessibility 

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Means of adaptation 

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Accessible and adaptated events for:

blind and low vision 

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deaf and hard of hearing 

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neurodivergent 

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Ensuring accessibility

– The GES-2 car park is free for visitors with disabilities and has special large parking spaces for them. Before you leave, please go to the information desk and display a document confirming disability. The employee will cancel the ticket issued at the car park entrance.

– If you require assistance in making your way from the metro station to GES-2, you may use the services of the Passenger Mobility Centre of the Moscow Metro. Please call +7 (495) 622 7341 or +7 (800) 250 7341 (free call) or apply on the mosmetro.ru website.

– We can provide you with an assistant for your visit to GES-2, from the entry to the event and back. You can make a request by email access@ges-2.org or by phone +7 (495) 990 0000, +7 (963) 996 3687 (WhatsApp, Telegram), and also click the appropriate box on the registration form.

– Wheelchairs can be requested in the cloakroom on floor –1, and fold-out chairs are available for visitors in the exhibition space.

– Accessible lavatories are located on floor –1, and also on floor 3 by the classrooms.

– Lifts take people to every floor of GES-2. The floor numbers in all lifts are written in Braille and with raised numbers, and voice messages announce the stops

– On floor –1 there is a baby changing room and a Quiet room for visitors who need a rest.

– At the information desk you can receive a sensor bag with noise-reducing earphones, a cushion, a soft blanket, earplugs and an anti-stress toy.

– We always welcome visitors with guide dogs. If you come to GES-2 with a guide dog, you can ask for a bowl of water at the information desk.

– The GES-2 Library is equipped with a Braille display, JAWS and NVDA screen readers, and also an enlargement device and scanner of paper books for blind and visually impaired visitors.

– On floor 1 opposite the information desk, three tactile models of GES-2 present the architectural concept and surrounding area of the House of Culture. Each model is equipped with inscriptions in Braille and a system with audio descriptions. On the corners of the models there are sockets to hold canes, and you can find earphones under the table on special clips.

Means of adaptation

Easy-to-Read — text materials that adapt information about the exhibitions. Easy-to-Read materials about past and present events (in Russian) are available on the website in the Accessibility section.

Social stories — first-person detailed instructions for visiting GES-2. Social stories (in Russian) are available in PDF format on the website in the Accessibility section.

Simultaneous interpretation into Russian Sign Language. Most of our public events are accompanied by interpretation into Russian Sign Language. At events that lack interpretation, visitors can book an interpreter by email: access@v-a-c.org.

Синхронный перевод на русский жестовый язык

Audio descriptions also accompany a number of film screenings and theatre performances. Availability is indicated on the event page on our website.

Audio descriptions for past and current exhibitions can be accessed on our website in the Accessibility section. You can also request a media player with audio descriptions for any current exhibition at the information desk.

Video clips in Russian Sign Language about the GES-2 House of Culture projects in general and about individual works. The video clips are available on the website in the Accessibility section and on portable media players available at the information desk near the GES-2 entrance from the Square.

We also provide text materials (including exhibition guides) in enlarged print and in Braille. Please inform us of your needs two weeks before the planned visiting date by email: access@v-a-c.org or by phone +7 (963) 996 3687.

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