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This pre-visit guide has information about the exhibition spaces to support your accessible visit. It is designed to help people with disability or neurodivergence prepare for their visit with detailed room descriptions.
As you enter through the Waterwall entrance on St. Kilda Road, the Women Photographers 1900–1975: A Legacy of Light exhibition is on the right-hand side or north end of the building.
A security team member will scan your ticket at the entry to the exhibition. The scanners have a light and make a beeping sound when scanning.
The exhibition has two sections or two large rooms with a small hallway in between.
The exhibition follows a set pathway.
Please do not touch the artworks.
The exhibition spaces have white walls and a bluestone floor. Photography artworks are displayed on the walls and in display cases. There are a number of small moving image screens on the walls, some have quiet audio.
There are Bentwood-style seats in the first space.
There is a small area between the two sections of the exhibition. The walls in this space are painted black.
There is a bench seat in front of a large moving image screen with sound playing.
There is a glass walkway overhead which may have people walking across.
The exhibition continues into the second section. These spaces have white walls and a grey laminate floor.
Photography artworks are displayed on the walls and in display cases. There is one small moving image screen without sound.
There are Bentwood-style seats.
The exhibition concludes at the north-end of the building. When you exit the exhibition, you can walk either direction to loop back to the Federation Court and Information Desk.
Map showing the exhibition layout including the locations of audio-visual content and seating.
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