Wakefield Museums and Castles

You can download a floor plan of the museum.

You can download a sensory map of the main galleries before your visit.

Copies of our sensory maps are available in the Pick and Mix station in the entrance foyer.

There are audio elements in parts of the exhibition spaces. These are not connected to headphones.

Main gallery: There is a film about the Hermitage in the medieval display. There is a screen with 5 short films in the ‘No place like home’ section.

Glass room: There is an AV screen with 3 films. All of these films are operated by push buttons. There are no headphones and audio plays out into the gallery. All films subtitled and there are handheld transcription sheets.

Picturing Pontefract exhibition

There are no audio elements in the Picturing Pontefract exhibition. Some audio may bleed into the special exhibition gallery if a visitor has pressed play on a video in the main gallery.

There is a silent video projection above the main artworks, on the wall that connects to the main gallery. It is a series of slowly panning images showing different maps and manuscripts from the wider collection.

The fire alarm at Pontefract Museum is tested at 10:30am on Tuesdays.