Visitors enter the theater at the Hammer Museum

Accessibility

The Hammer Museum welcomes all visitors and wants to help you make the most of your visit. If you have any needs not addressed below, we encourage you to call 310-443-7000 or email accessibility@hammer.ucla.edu for assistance.

Assistive listening devices (ALDs) are available for use at the museum. For lectures and other programs in our theaters, these can be picked up at the box office. For other programs, and to ensure availability, please call 310-443-7020 or email accessibility@hammer.ucla.edu in advance.

Large-print texts of the interpretive labels in many of our galleries are available upon request. Ask any gallery attendant or staffperson for assistance.

Services such as sign language interpretation, live transcription, and alternate format materials can be arranged. Please contact us at least 10 working days before your visit at 310-443-7020 or accessibility@hammer.ucla.edu to discuss your needs.

Service Animals

Trained service animals are welcome in all spaces throughout the museum. We welcome other supervised and leashed domesticated animals only in the museum’s courtyard.

Getting Around the Museum

All of the museum’s galleries are accessible to wheelchair users and other visitors who cannot use stairs.

Street Entry

Street-facing entries to the museum are located on both Wilshire Boulevard and Lindbrook Drive. Both entries include accessible ramps. 

Accessible Parking

Accessible parking spaces are located on Level P1 of the museum’s parking garage. Accessible spaces on P1 are located on the parking entry level, directly across from the lobby entrance.

Drop-Offs

Visitors may be dropped off and picked up at the curb outside the entrance on Lindbrook Drive, where there is an accessible ramp up to the courtyard level.

Drop-offs are discouraged in the parking garage as there is no grace period for entry, and cars will be charged posted parking rates.

Elevators

From the parking garage, visitors may take the elevators to P1 and enter the museum lobby via its parking garage entrance. Once inside the museum lobby, visitors may use the elevator for access to the courtyard level (including Lulu and the Billy Wilder Theater), or the gallery level (including the Hammer Store and the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts).

Wheelchairs

Two wheelchairs are available first-come, first-served at the welcome desk. You may call ahead to reserve a wheelchair at 310-443-7020 or email accessibility@hammer.ucla.edu. Wheelchairs are disinfected before and after each use.

There are six wheelchair spaces with companion seating in the Billy Wilder Theater. Four are in the back of the theater and accessible from the theater lobby on the courtyard level. Two are in the front row. Inform the box office of your preference and one of our ushers will escort you. For assistance and questions about wheelchair seating, please call 310-443-7020 or email accessibility@hammer.ucla.edu. 

Learn more about attending a public program: see Know Before You Go.

Seating and Resting Areas

Portable stools are available for use in the galleries. Just ask any Hammer ambassador stationed in the galleries.

Feel free to sit and rest in our open courtyard or on benches located on the third level.