Information

Aallonpuisto

Accessible. The roads on Seminaarinmäki are partly asphalt and partly compacted gravel, and there are some hills in the area.

Aalto2 Museum Centre

• An accessible museum center where you can move around on the elevator to all floors. Strollers, wheelchairs, and walkers are also available for loan during your visit. A changing room and an accessible toilet are located on the first floor.

• If you are traveling by bus with a stroller or similar, the most accessible route is from the bus stop called "Museo 2" located on Hannikaisenkatu (approximately 170 m to the entrance of the Museum Centre).
  When you get off at the Keskussairaalantie bus stop, you will reach the main entrance via the outdoor stairs next to the Museum Center. Accessible access is available through Kramsunkatu, which adds approximately 400 meters to your walk to the main entrance. 
• Guide and assistance dogs are welcome at Aalto2. The exhibitions also feature objects and items that can be touched.

Agora

Parking

• Accessible parking: Rear of parking lot, last lane before parking garage, 5 spaces. From the parking space, access to the main entrance leads directly along the driving lane via the closest and only dropped curb, 40 m away.
• Accessible parking: Parking garage, front of garage, 1 space. 80 m to main entrance.

Entrance

• Accessible solution: Main entrance, left door electrically openable by button, right door moderately heavy, threshold 30 mm high.
• Slightly mobility-impaired solution: Entrance B-wing, threshold 60 mm, moderately heavy manual door.
• Slightly mobility-impaired solution: Entrance on the Mattilanniemi end, threshold 60 mm, but stepped, moderately heavy manual door.

Elevator

• Accessible solution: 20 meters to the left from the main entrance.
• Accessible solution: 30 meters to the right from the main entrance, 8 meters to the left from the B-wing door.
• Accessible solution: Immediately to the right of the door at the Mattilanniemi end.

Restroom

• Accessible toilet. 1st floor, 15 meters forward and to the left from the main entrance.
• Accessible restroom. 3rd floor, from the B-wing elevator, turn right down the corridor approximately 15 meters, on the left side (from the end elevator, turn left 19 m, on the right side). The restroom also has a changing table for babies.

Design Alonen, Pykälistö

The outdoor sculpture park and light gallery are accessible. Two train car galleries can be accessed via a ramp to the door. The restroom is not accessible.

Freetime

The restaurant is wheelchair accessible.

Gallery Becker

Access to Gallery Becker and the art lending library through our main door is not accessible due to high stairs.

However, you can enter via a ramp and by ringing the doorbell through the kitchen door. The route is suitable for standard-sized wheelchairs, strollers, and individuals with mobility issues. The largest wheelchairs may not fit due to a sharp turn in the hallway and high thresholds.

Gallery Ratamo

The gallery is accessible for people with mobility impairments.

Hannikaissali

The entrance is assisted access, and there is an accessible restroom in the property.

Harju Stadium

Accessible.

Hotel Alba

Hotel Alba has two accessible rooms suitable for guests with reduced mobility. The rooms are equipped for wheelchair users or individuals with other mobility impairments, but they do not meet all criteria for an accessible room – for example, the beds in the hotel rooms are not motorized. We serve guests with reduced mobility to the best of our abilities. Read more about our accessible hotel rooms on the Alba website: Click here.

Höyry Gallery

The Gallery shop and summer space has a ramp for strollers and wheelchairs. The Gallery exhibition space is located on the second floor, and it is not accessible.

Jyväskylä Museum of Natural History

Parking

• Accessible parking. One marked parking spot to the left of the entrance, 20 m to the main door.
• Taxis can drive directly in front of the main doors. The address to give when ordering a taxi is Ihantolantie 5.

Entrance

• Slightly mobility-impaired solution. The main door of the building is moderately heavy, with a 30 mm threshold. The museum door is moderately heavy, with a 30 mm threshold.

Elevator

• Accessible solution. To the left of the main entrance of the building.

Restroom

• Accessible toilet. On the second floor, in the restaurant lobby, 7 meters to the right directly from the elevator.

Observation tower

• Inaccessible. The elevator doesn't go all the way up, so there are stairs left to climb.
• Pets are welcome in the observation tower.

Guide and assistance dogs

• Guide and assistance dogs are welcome in the museum's exhibition spaces as well as the observation tower.

Wheelchairs and Strollers

• Wheelchairs can move through the exhibition spaces without obstacles.
• Bringing strollers into the exhibition halls is permitted. Alternatively, they can be left in front of the museum shop next to the coat racks.

Jyväskylä Art Museum

• Nearby parking spaces are located on Gummeruksenkatu, by Kirkkopuisto. There is one accessible parking space on Kauppakatu, in front of Säästöpankki Optia. You can stop in front of the museum entrance, but not park there.
• The bus local traffic center is located on Vapaudenkatu, approximately 200 meters from the museum. The nearest taxi stand is located on Kauppakatu, in front of the museum.
• The Jyväskylä Art Museum is accessible. All floors can be reached by elevator. Accessible restrooms are located on the first floor. A wheelchair can be borrowed for the duration of your museum visit. The nursery room is located in the women's and men's restrooms on the lower floor. Strollers can be borrowed for the duration of your museum visit.
• Guide and assistance dogs are welcome in the museum. The art museum's guides and hall attendants are trained to assist visually impaired visitors. Aids such as flashlights and magnifying glasses are available for loan from the cloakroom.

All guided tours can be tailored to the needs of special groups. Descriptive exhibition tours are available for the visually impaired. You can also book a cultural guide to accompany you on an exhibition tour. Visiting an exhibition with a guide is free for groups of under 5 people. 

If needed, ask staff for advice. You can find the art museum's contact information: Clicking here.

Käsityöläismuseo (Craftsmen's Museum)

Inaccessible: The spaces in the old house are cramped and there are thresholds in the space.

Lounaispuisto

Lounaispuisto is located on a hill, and unfortunately, moving around the park is not completely accessible.

• If you have an assistant with you, they will get free entrance to Puistojuhlat together with the person being assisted.
• There is an accessible restroom in the area.
• There is no induction loop in Lounaispuisto.
• The age-restricted area is unfortunately not accessible: the area is grass-based and located on a slope.
• If you have questions about the accessibility of Puistojuhlat, we are happy to help: kesa@jyvaskylankesa.fi. During the event, our regional staff will answer questions.

Lyseo new side (old school exhibition)

Exhibition is partially accessible. The exhibition space on the 1st floor is accessible, and there is accessible entry to the space through the inner courtyard. The resting and storage areas, as well as all restrooms, including the accessible restroom, are located in Cafe Miriam (Asemakatu 12). 

Courtyard events are accessible. 
The second floor of the exhibition is not accessible.

Mäki-Matti Family Park

Esteetön: Puiston piha-alueella liikkuu päivittäin lukuisia lapsiperheitä rattaiden ja vaunujen kanssa. Lähes kaikkialle pääsee rattaiden ja pyörätuolien kanssa. Pihamaa on tiivistä hiekkaa pääosin ja siinä on helppo kulkea.

Pihlajavesi Wilderness Church

Pihlajavesi's old church is not accessible. The old church has high thresholds and the main entrance stairs are steep and unsupported. The church is accessible with a lightweight wheelchair (not an electric wheelchair) through a side entrance via a ramp that can be installed if needed.

Seminaarinmäki Open Gardens

Accessible. The roads on Seminaarinmäki are partly asphalt and partly compacted gravel, and there are some hills in the area.

Sipinen´s Salonki 

The space is accessible. There is a ramp from the courtyard to the premises, meaning wheelchair and walker users can access it, and there is an accessible restroom.

Soihtu Museum Center

Entrance

• Slightly mobility-impaired solution. Entrance from the rear of the building, from the A building side via a ramp. The outdoor door threshold is approx. 50 mm high, the door width is 690 mm, with a separate door opening next to it.

Elevator

• Accessible solution. The elevator with sliding doors is 12 meters straight ahead, on the right. Elevator car 1410 x 1000 mm.

Restroom

• Accessible restroom. On the first floor, to the right of the elevator doors and through the lobby to the left approximately 8 meters, at the end of the corridor on the left.

Suomen käsityön museo (Finnish Craft Museum)

General

• The assistant or support person of a disability card holder always gets free access to our service.
• Guide or assistance dogs are welcome in our museum. A drinking bowl for dogs is available in the accessible restroom. The museum also has a walker and a wheelchair available for loan. 

arrival

• The local bus transport center is located on Vapaudenkatu, approximately 200 meters from the museum. The nearest taxi stand is located on Kauppakatu, in front of the Jyväskylä Art Museum, about 50 meters from the museum. 
• The visitor parking is on Kauppakatu street, at Kauppakatu 23, in front of the bank.

Entrance & elevator

• The ground floor is accessible by wheelchair. Other floors can be reached by wheelchairs that fit into the stairlift, and staff will assist with its use if necessary. The ground floor connects to the first floor via a stairlift. The stairlift is a platform lift with a floor size of 97 x 77 cm. This should be taken into consideration, for example, when using an electric wheelchair. From the first floor, a larger passenger elevator connects to the lower level and the second floor.

Restroom

• The accessible restroom is located on the street level. All restrooms in the museum are gender-neutral. 

• The need for baby diaper changing has been taken into account, and for example, the open workshop also has a quieter spot where you can breastfeed your baby in peace.

Exhibitions

• In the "Time Travel into Craftsmanship" exhibition, which is part of the museum's permanent exhibitions, visitors can get hands-on with various materials.  
• Some temporary exhibitions also feature soundscapes and interactive elements.

Säynätsalo Town Hall

Säynätsalo Town Hall is not accessible. The office and exhibition floor can be reached by a stair lift in the residential wing with staff assistance. The council chamber can only be accessed via stairs.

Toivola Old Courtyard

Toivola has accessible access to the yard from various entrances. An accessible toilet is located in café Valkoinen puu. Toivola's old yard has some sloped terrain.

Trattoria square

The restaurant is wheelchair accessible.

Vakiopaine

Wheelchairs can access the street-level floor via staff routes. Access to the theater or balcony is not accessible.

Vanha Pappila

Accessible: There is a ramp to the front door and an accessible restroom inside.

Villa Rana: Blomstedt Hall

• There is one marked accessible parking space in front of the doors. Accessible restrooms are located at both ends of the building.
• An accessible entrance to the upper and lower hall for those who need a stairlift is located at the city-side end. The stairlift platform size is 800x1000mm.
• When you need accessible entry and the door is not open, please ring the doorbell. We recommend notifying the event organizer in advance if you require accessible entry. The main entrance is not accessible.

Villa Rana´s Garden

• Accessible. 
• There is one marked accessible parking space in front of the doors. Accessible restrooms are located at both ends of the building.

University Main Building's Ceremonial Hall

Parking

• Accessible parking. 1 spot 25 m from the entrance. Parking is also permitted near the entrance with a parking permit, provided it does not impede other traffic.

Entrance

• Accessible solution: Main entrance is accessible, manually operated doors are heavy
• Slightly inaccessible: There are stairs and a steep ramp (12 %) in front of the Lozzi entrance, and the manually operated doors are fairly heavy.
• Mild mobility impairment solution: Archive / Aalto Library entrance has a manually opening door; it is heavy with a 60 mm threshold.

Elevator

• Slightly mobility-impaired solution: Hall C1 (Ceremonial Hall), approximately 35 meters to the right of the main entrance, near the entrance on the Lozzi side. Elevator cart 990 x 1480 mm. Especially with a larger electric wheelchair, it is recommended to enter the elevator in reverse, as the door to the hall is to the left of the elevator. In the elevator selection, the 2nd floor leads to the Ceremonial hall, and the 3rd floor leads to the stage.
• Slightly mobility-impaired accessible solution: The ground floor is accessible by a stairlift, and from there, an elevator provides access to the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors. The caretaker will open the door and assist with the use of the elevators. Elevator door width is 770 mm, elevator car dimensions are 1330 x 770 mm.
• Slightly mobility-impaired solution: In the Aalto Library, directly from the book deposit/library entrance, 12 meters to the service desk and a vertical elevator behind a locked glass door. Elevator car dimensions: 1420 x 850 mm.

Restroom

• Accessible toilet. 1st floor, approximately 30 meters to the right of the main entrance, behind the coat racks.
• Accessible restroom. Ground floor, 12 m left from the entrance, 15 m down the hallway to the right from the elevator.

Halls

• Slightly mobility-impaired solution: C1 (Ceremonial Hall) The hall is accessible by elevator to both the audience area and the stage. Accessible access is only at the very front, where space is limited.