Services

Accessibility Map

Sign-Language Interpretation

Docent Tour & Tactile Exploration

Large-print Labels & Braille

Service Dogs

Morning at the Museum Tour

Accessibility Map

One of the most notable features of the original Carnegie Mansion property, the enclosed garden—named the Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden in 1991—is accessible to the public from the museum’s East 90th Street entrance and to museum visitors through the Taralucci e Vino Cafe.

Entrance

Cooper Hewitt is accessible to visitors with limited mobility through our East 91st Street entrance and the Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden entrance on East 90th Street. From the garden, there is an entrance to our Tarallucci e Vino Cafe, where an elevator is available to bring visitors to the first floor.

inside museum

Inside Museum

Inside the museum, a passenger elevator brings visitors to all four floors of galleries. Standard manual wheelchairs are available free of charge on a first-come, first-serve basis at our coat check, located immediately to the right of the museum’s East 91st Street entrance. All of Cooper Hewitt’s restrooms are wheelchair accessible.

Sign-Language Interpretation

Sign Language interpretation

Let us know in advance

Sign-language interpretation is available for Cooper Hewitt programs. email the museum or call 917.809.6732. This service is free of charge. Two weeks advance notice is appreciated.

Docent Tour & Tactile Exploration

For visitors who are blind or have low vision, our daily docent tours provide dynamic verbal descriptions of the exhibitions on view.

Docent Tour

For visitors who are blind or have low vision, our daily docent tours provide dynamic verbal descriptions of the exhibitions on view.

a book with Tactile

Tactile Exploration

For details, please inquire at our Visitor Experience desk. To schedule a free guided group tour for visitors who are blind or have low vision, please register at least six weeks in advance of the desired tour date using the tour registration form. email the museum or call 917.809.6732 for all further inquiries.

Large-print Labels & Braille

Large print labels

Large-print Labels

Large-print labels are available at the Visitor Experience desk and also can be downloaded from our website.

Braille is available on all our facilities signage.

Braille

Braille is available on all our facilities signage. Online, our Object of the Day blog includes a spoken-word audio recording of the curatorial text for each blog item.

Service Dogs

a black training service dogs

Welcome

Visitors with disabilities are welcome to bring to the museum a service dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks.

Morning at the Museum Tour

Morning at the Museum Tour

information

Morning at the Museum is a free Smithsonian public program for visitors with cognitive and sensory processing disabilities that takes place on select Saturdays one hour prior to the museum opening, Cooper Hewitt’s Morning at the Museum program provides pre-visit materials for participating families, a gallery scavenger hunt, design activities, and a “take a break” space.