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Detailed description of the tour for wheelchair users:
The visitors centre is on the right behind the entrance to the museum; it is easily accessible with no steps. Various events are staged here from time to time, as are special exhibitions. This area also contains the display of oil cans. The distillery and cider making room are through a door at the end of the room (and on the left next to the “Viezkarte” –left door – is the entrance to the toilet for the handicapped) and to the wine and sparking wine making exhibition. It is possible to gain access to the next part of the building from this exhibition area, although there are a few steps (one wide step down, six wide ones up). First you pass the grocer's shop, and then you come to the right-hand corner building of the Roscheider Hof where there is an old-fashioned inn, a hairdresser’s and a historical kitchen with lots of interesting items on view. Five steps, wide enough for a narrow wheelchair, take you to the textiles exhibition where the items on display include a historical loom and other items used for making wool and linen. Beyond that are the apartments of the former owner Nicolas Valdenaire. A number of rooms are on view behind glass and contain a part of our large exhibition of bourgeois domestic culture and lifestyle c. 1900. The exhibits include a number of hand-woven textiles, a living room and a bedroom. It also contains a fully equipped seamstress’s workshop and her embroidery machines. The furniture exhibition includes a variety of cupboards and trunks from various periods and a fully furnished dining room, a typical 19th century living room, and a tower clock. The route continues up six narrow, steep – “anti-wheelchair” – steps to the top floor of the building complex. Just a short detour, and wheelchairs can easily get to this part of the collection. A ramp goes from outside the museum directly to the top floor of the wine exhibition. With no further steps, it is easy to see the entire exhibition on the top floor of the building complex – apart from the small area above the corner building. (The religious collection and school museum are the only parts of the exhibition that are inaccessible to wheelchairs because of the steep staircase.) The ramp now takes you into the large exhibition entitled “From grain to bread. Here you will see a sequential display of the equipment used throughout the entire bread-baking process, from tilling the earth, sowing the seeds, harvesting and threshing the grain (there is a wide, shallow wooden staircase with 15 steps back down to the vineyard exhibition). The grand finale is the bakehouse from Polch, which has been reconstructed in the museum exactly as it was in its original location. The heart of this display is the large tiled oven. The final exhibition is of the history of laundry, and tells of the developments in this industry – from the washboard to the automatic washing machine. A shallow ramp now takes you to the “20th century street, the final part of the folkloristic exhibition and which is still under construction. Current exhibits include a dentist’s chair from the first third of the 20th century with the appropriate dental instruments, a fully equipped apothecary, a butcher’s and an upholsterer’s.
The access via the ramp is normally closed. Please contact us in
advance if you would like to see the upper part of the collection by wheelchair.
The Oven and chimney plates exhibition is also on the ground floor, and is accessible from the courtyard – which is cobblestoned. From this exhibition you can see into the rose garden, which has also been accessible by ramp since the spring of 2001 (see the description of the open air site by wheelchair).
General Informations for wheelchair users. Zurück zur Roscheider-Hof-Homepage
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