Getting there by public transport
Bus 1, 2, 18; metrobus (Vittoria Stop).
For information on local transport:
Brescia Mobility website
For information on accessible bus stops: tel. + 39 030 3061200.

Parking
The Museum is located in a restricted traffic area, with electronic access control and off limits to unauthorized vehicles.
In the square Tebaldo Brusato, about 30 meters from the museum, there are 4 parking spaces reserved for people with permit for citizens with disability.
For information on traffic and parking in Brescia
http://www.bresciamobilita.it/

Entrance
The Museum is housed in Benedictine monastery of Santa Giulia. The structure occupies the north-eastern part of the ancient city and consists of several buildings: the church of San Salvatore, Santa Maria in Solario, the Coro delle Monache (Nuns' Choir) and the sixteenth century church of Santa Giulia.
From the road, visitors pass through a double swinging gate (150 cm each) and walk for 20 meters along a large paved walkway in the central part (on the two sides the surface is cobbled). Two double swinging side by side (width 82 cm each swinging door) and a ramp (length 300 cm, gradient 5%) lead into the atrium of the museum.

Information for visitors
Free entrance for the person with disability and for his companion.
2 manual wheelchairs are at the disposal of visitors. Guided tours are available (in Italian and English).
Persons with visual disabilities (individual or small groups) can book tours with an experienced staff member. Also available are: audio guides (for temporary exhibitions only); a visual-tactile map placed at the entrance and visual-tactile cards depicting the map of the museum; some embossed plaques along the itinerary, which are accessible to touch reproducing the material on display.
Deaf persons can book theme based group visits, conducted in Italian Sign Language (LIS) by a specifically trained sign language expert specialised in Brescia museum heritage.
For information and reservations e-mail: santagiulia@bresciamusei.com
A virtual tour of the museum (Santa Giulia 360°) is available on the website Brescia musei
For more information on the accessibility of the Santa Giulia Museum

Reception
In the lobby, on the ground floor, there are:

• the ticket office(counter h 125 cm)
• the information point (counter h 125 cm)
• the bookshop (counter h 90 cm)
• the cloakroom (counter h 100 cm)
• reading areas with tables (free space below 75 cm) and automatic refreshment machines are also available

Staff offer information and assistance.

Direction signs
Along the various paths there are directional arrows written in large letters (at least 7 cm) and clearly visible.

Lifts
Santa Giulia offers an exhibition itinerary 1 (the history of the Monastery) and an exhibition itinerary 2 (the City Museum).
Two lifts serve all floors of the two exhibition itineraries (-1, 0, 1, 2, 3).
The first lift is situated is along exhibition itinerary 1 (the history of the Monastery) and has the following features:

• door width 85 cm, cabin space 92x130 cm
• internal control panel in Braille and raised (h 120 cm)
• acoustic and visual signal at landing
• emergency alarm bell (h 127 cm).

The second lift is situated along exhibition itinerary 2 (the City Museum) and has the following features:

• door width 90 cm, cabin space 142x154 cm
• internal control panel in Braille and raised (h 112 cm)
• audio and visual signal at landing
• emergency alarm bell (h 125 cm).

Exhibition layout
Santa Giulia is known as the "Museum of the City", because the history of Brescia is brought to to life there. The tour unfolds through two itineraries, on an exhibition area of about 14,000 square meters.
The first itinerary is dedicated to the history of the Monastery, whose structures document the different periods of the history of the city. The structures are the church of San Salvatore, Santa Maria in Solario, the Choir of the nuns, the church of Santa Giulia and the Renaissance cloisters.
The second itinerary, which is integrated with the previous one, displays materials and works from the city of Brescia and from the territory, ordered in sections ranging from prehistoric age ti the nineteenth century. The exhibition is on three floors: the lower ground floor, ground and first floor.
The two itineraries are generally accessible without obstacles: on the various floors, some rooms or spaces are connected by steps, which may be climbed either via lifting platforms, stairlifts and inclined ramps (with variable gradients from 6% to 12%).
There are architectural barriers only in the following cases: the Basilica of San Salvatore has a step (h 16 cm); the church of Santa Maria in Solario can be reached from the cloisters past 7 consecutive steps (h 14 cm) and a double swinging door (65 cm each); the Nuns' Choir can only be reached via 3 flights of stairs with a total of 39 steps (h 12 cm) and then an inclined ramp (length 230 cm, gradient 7%).
Itinerary 2 offers a tour specially designed for visually impaired visitors. Near some works there are 1:1 scale copies accessible to touch and short texts printed in Braille provide information on features of the exhibition.
On the ground floor, inside the Domus, there are chairs and benches (h 44 cm).

Restrooms
There are three toilets equipped for persons with disabilities, all accessible via the lift.
The ground floor and the second floor toilets have the same characteristics:

• anteroom with swing door width 90 cm
• wall-mounted washbasin (h 74 cm e front space 105 cm)
• bathroom with swing door width 85 cm
• wall-mounted washbasin (h 74 cm front space 108 cm)
• floor-mounted WC (h 53 cm, 180 cm front space, 100 cm right side, left side 30 cm, horizontal grab bar on the right side and hand shower on the left side of the toilet).

Bathroom signs are clearly visible, at eye level and medium-large size.
A third equipped toilet is located on the first floor, near the nuns' choir, and has the following features:

• bathroom with swinging door width 85 cm
• wall-mounted washbasin (125 cm front space)
• floor-mounted toilet (113 cm front space, right side 108 cm, left side 34 cm, horizontal grab bar on either side)
• Symbols of the toilets well contrasted, at eye level, medium to large size.

Emergency exits
Emergency exits are indicated. An acoustic alarm system is installed.