Accessibility
The Historical Society of Western Virginia is committed to ensuring museum access for all.
Promoting Museum Access For All
Through Museums for All, the Historical Society of Western Virginia is pleased to offer free admission to visitors receiving SNAP or EBT Benefits. While many museums and other cultural access initiatives offer free or reduced admission on specific days or months of the year, the Roanoke History & O. Winston Link Museums offer free admission every day we’re open to the public.
Guide to
Accessibility
The museum has a pre-visit narrative to help manage those individuals and families manage anxiety before their visit. The visual guide offers step-by-step navigation tips tailored for better sensory-specific experience, ensuring a seamless and enriching museum visit.
Sensory Kits
The Roanoke History & O. Winston Link Museums have sensory kits available to check-out for in-museum use. Each kit comes with noise canceling headphones, tactile tools, light reducing sunglasses, and feeling communication cards to help make your visit more enjoyable. See the museum front desk when you arrive to check out a free backpack!
Use our visitor’s guide to navigate the building. If you need a large print guide, or one in a different language, please let us know!
Service animals required for disabilities are permitted. Emotional support animals are not allowed.
The Museums are working toward creating audio guides for blind visitors or visitors with low vision.
Both floors of the Museums are accessible by elevator.
There is seating available throughout the Museums.
There are accessible water fountains across from the elevator downstairs in the galleries, as well as near the restrooms.
All restrooms are accessible and have baby-changing stations.
The parking lot for the Visit Virginia’s Blue Ridge Visitor Center and Museums has one accessible parking space. The ramp into the building is large, and sits directly behind the accessible parking spot.
Large tour buses and school buses are allowed, and can pull into and park in the semi-circle in front of the building.
All admissions are sold onsite in the museum gift shop where visitors enter and exit the museums.
If you are interested in scheduling a group tour, please contact the Roanoke History and O. Winston Link Museums at 540-982-5465 or info@vahistorymuseum.org. Group rates might be available
One wheelchair is available for use in the museum, and is first-come, first-serve.
Manual and electric wheelchairs are welcome in all areas of the museum. Non-motorized mobility devices, like single seat and knee scooters are also permitted.
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