In the Moscow Museum "Garage" do not allow visitors with wheelchairs

The special correspondent of the newspaper Kommersant Olesya Gerasimenko was not allowed from a carriage to the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art "Garage". When the journalist wrote out the indignant post on his Facebook page, the director of the Museum of Anton Belov came to the commentary and explained that the entrance to the museum was prohibited.

Specialcore "Kommersant" came to the exhibition with the daughter of Agela. Having bought a ticket, she found out that she could not be visited with a pram.

"In the Tretyakov, it is possible through the road, and here it is impossible," said Gerasimenko. The administrator of the Daria Kotov museum explained that at the exhibition narrow passes, and the stroller will not be able to drive them. In response, Gerasimenko was indignant that it was not said about this on the site, nor in the announcement of the exhibition, nor at the entrance to the museum.

"Of course, I shifted Agela to Sling and Bivovarova showed her. At the same time, the narrow passes looked for which the administrator was worried, "even a stroller with twins would fit into them. It is funny that for advertising prospectuses Aglain, the stroller was filmed including in the galleries and museums of Amsterdam - here, they say, urban, narrow, comfortable. But then Holland, and then "garage". There are no ramps, the ribbon is stretched in front of the elevator, and the carriages, please leave in the wardrobe, "the journalist wrote.

Pediatric stroller is a means of transportation, and a wheelchair is a means of rehabilitation. The difference between these two strollers is exactly the same as between the dog and the conductor dog for the blind people. With dogs, the passage of the museum is prohibited, and with handling dogs - it is possible, since this is exactly the same means of rehabilitation for blind people and the necessary means for movement.

Anton Belov, Director of MSI "Garage"

• Another visitor "Garage", Nikita Yeremeyev, complained that he was banned in the museum to take pictures, referring to the Charter of the organization.
• Employee Rambler & Co Artem Platov said that six months ago he was also denied a visit to the museum with a carriage.
• The leading of the first architectural radio station Elena Parsamova remembered that two years ago she was told in the "garage" that attending the conference in the museum with a child in a carriage is not relying, and asked to move away to the exit from the room.

At the same time, for wheelchairs in the "garage" there is no prohibition.

Anton Belov said that the "garage" for the museum is a small building, and the administration is forced to post everything compactly. In addition, on the project, this is the construction restaurant in 1968, and the owners tried to solve several problems of the building themselves and with the help of the architectural bureau.

"I am confident that after the implementation of our second building and the possibility of distributing people's flows, we will be able to provide the highest possible convenience for people with children in wheelchairs. Nevertheless, we will try to improve it earlier, where it will be possible and will not bear the threat to the safety of works and inconvenience to other visitors, "said Belov. He promised that the museum will make an item on ban on visiting exhibitions with children's wheelchairs in the rules.

Director of External Relations "Snob" Ksenia Chudinova noted that the museum made a special program for people with disabilities. Employee of the charity organization "ROOI Perspective" Evgeny Lyapin said that it was more than once in the "garage" on ordinary and electrical strollers and he never had problems with moving inside the museum.

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