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Disabled will experience new opportunities at Glanmore

  • May 17, 2011 at 2:35 pm

The Glanmore Historic Site tomorrow plans to lift visitors into the past.

The Glanmore Historic Site will have a grand opening of a lift at the entrance of the museum for the city’s elderly and disabled.

“We’re celebrating a pretty significant improvement to our accessibility to the building,” said Melissa Wakeling, education and marketing coordinator at the museum. “Because it is an historic building it can be challenging to make it physically accessible to people with a lot of stairs.”

Wakeling said in an interview that the new lift is not the only thing the museum will be introducing.

“And on the inside we will be premiering our virtual tour,” said Wakeling.

Being a historical house it was built upward with a lot of stairs. The virtual tour will allow people who cannot climb the stairs to enjoy what the second floor has to offer.

“They can sit at a kiosk and watch a tour of the second floor that they would otherwise be unable to see,” said Wakeling.

To fund the project, the Glanmore was given a grant from the Ministry of Tourism and Culture from a fund to preserve Ontario’s heritage. Recipients are for collection-based organizations with tangible historical objects.  Glanmore was part of the 2009/2010 recipients and was awarded $12,000 for their virtual tour project.

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