Category: Travel and Tourism
I've travelled to a lot of places, and visited a lot of tourist attractions, especially around the UK. Some have been incredibly good, and the staff incredibly friendly.
among the best were, exeter cathedral, bath abbey, westminster abbey,...actually, cathedrals are incredibbly good value for accessibility, as staff are often incredibly helpful as they are actual parishioners of the church, and therefore are eager to show it off and will allow you to touch things, and will sometimes show you where some interesting statues, monument or graves are.
Edinburgh castle was wonderful and the staff were very friendly and would show the way to all the places and explain things and allow you to handle some of the old weapons and so on, and touch some of the old furniture.
Big Pit Mining museum in wales was great, because they had this fantastic audio guide that you could follow as it moved, and it explained a lot, and you could walk into the workshops and buildings and touch things on display.
I've also done a couple of great walking tours in london, one that was focused on jack the ripper, and another focusing on the horrors tghat london has to offer. these are often well presented, and are a lot of fun. the guides are usually funny and entertaining. at the jack the ripper tour, they made two people reinact the last movements of one of the victems.
if you have any other good places from any country, please add it here.
When I was in the Dominican Republic, I went to an animal adventure park where I got to swim with dolphins, touch them, pet a sea lion, and hold several smaller animals. They weren't hesitant about letting me touch these animals at all.
i went to big pit meusim years ago, and it was great then, don't know if they've modernised the presentation lately, but if it was anything like it was when i went, it was brilliant then.
they modernised the audio tour bit and added some too it. it's actually really easy to follow too if you can't see.
the baltimore children's zoo. Even though I'm a grown up, when I took my kids there as tiny tots, they had all kinds of hands on experiences. My favorite was a mega sized birds nest. The kids could climb in to it and sit on these huge eggs. Gave them kind of a sense of what it was like to be avian.
The aquarium in key west florida has a great touch tank. I got to hold baby sharks and sea urchins as well as star fish.
The Stirling Mines in NJ are great as well as Liberty Science Center. In the mines, the guide was very descriptive and I was able to touch a few things. The Liberty Science Center is bursting full of interesting things, not the least of which is a touch tunnel, which, of course, I could navigate but which gave my clasmates a difficult time and a really neat ball that's suspended by air being blown on it. I really need to go there again, now that I'm an adult.
Ah I remember the touch tunnel. That was cool.
oo Great topic. Thanks for starting one. I would love to know of places that are accessible because someday, I will have enough money to do these things! lol One can dream right?