The RIBA aims to ensure that the Library's services and the collections are accessible to anyone visiting the Reading Room at 66 Portland Place and the RIBA Architecture Study Rooms at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Both sites are accessible to wheelchairs. Please contact us| if you have any questions on access or special requirements.

 

Reading Room 

RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London
(for the Photographs, Books and Periodicals Collections) 

Building

• Guide dogs are welcome.

• Step-free access, via lifts, to all the floors in the building.
• Step-free access to the main entrance on Portland Place, which is accessible to wheelchairs.

• The Reading Room is accessible to wheelchairs. Certain areas such as the upper galleries and rolling stacks are not accessible to wheelchairs, but librarians are at hand to help and will be happy to fetch any requested material.  

Facilities

• Portable induction loops for those with hearing aids are available. Users should ask for them at the reception of 66 Portland Place.
• A disabled toilet is located in the basement.
• Lockers, located on the third floor, are available during the Reading Room's opening hours.
• A screen reader (COBRA) is available inside the Library.

Transport

• Single yellow line restrictions apply outside the Portland Place entrance.
• There are designated disabled parking spaces for Blue Badge holders on Portland Place.
• The nearest London Underground station with step-free access from the platform to the street is Euston (London Overground line).
• More information is available from Transport for London on transport accessibility.

 

RIBA Architecture Study Rooms

Victoria and Albert Museum, London 
(for the Drawings and Archives Collections)

Building

• Guide dogs welcome.
• Entrances to the museum on Cromwell Road and Exhibition Road both have wheelchair accessible doors, and are either level access or served by ramps.
• Lift access to the fourth floor where the Study Rooms are located.

Facilities

• Disabled toilets are located throughout the museum, including in the Sackler Centre.
• Cloakrooms are available in the Sackler Centre and near the Grand Entrance on Cromwell Road.

Transport

• There are designated disabled parking spaces for Blue Badge holders on Exhibition Road.

More information is available on access| at the V&A for disabled people.