Accessibility
Everyone Has Access to Puppetry Arts
We’re committed to ensuring that our facilities, exhibitions, and services are accessible to all individuals, including those with disabilities. If you have any questions about accessibility at the Museum or would like to request an accommodation, please contact us.
How We Embrace Accessibility
Sensory Friendly
Events Designed for those with Autism Spectrum Disorder
We proudly offer sensory-friendly experiences to guests with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
On sensory-friendly days, guests will be welcomed by staff members trained to interact with patrons with ASD and lighting will be adjusted throughout the facility.
During shows, sounds are low and consistent, children can talk and leave their seats, and there’s a quiet zone in the lobby to bring quiet, contained beverages and peanut-free snacks.
Create-A-Puppet Workshop™ classrooms will be quieter and use simplified puppet designs. Meanwhile, the museum will integrate activities like touch tables and guided storytelling.
Fidget toys, social stories, sound-reducing headphones, and sunglasses are also available. Contact us if you have questions or concerns.
Please call 404-837-3391 or email accessibility@puppet.org
Wheelchair Access
Navigate Our Atrium, Museum, and Other Facilities with Ease
The Center for Puppetry Arts is wheelchair accessible with ramp access and elevators for users by visitors with mobility concerns. If you have any additional questions about accessibility, don’t hesitate to contact our ticket office to ask questions.
Please call 404-837-3391 or email accessibility@puppet.org
Customized Experiences
Contact the Ticket Office for Special Accommodations
We are happy to customize performances and tours to maximize the experience for those with a specific accessibility concern. If you or someone in your group has a disability, please notify the ticket office so special arrangements can be made.
Please call 404-837-3391 or email accessibility@puppet.org.
Puppetry for All!
Learn more about our ASD Sensory-Friendly, American Sign Languge-Interpreted, and Audio Described Performances!
Prepare for Arrival with Our Social Story Visitors Guide
This comprehensive social story will walk you through our facilities from top to bottom, inside and outdoors. It will also highlight accessibility accommodations so you and your guests are prepared for arrival.
Accessibility Statement for the Center for Puppetry Arts
This is the accessibility statement for the Center for Puppetry Arts.
Measures to support accessibility
Center for Puppetry Arts takes the following measures to ensure accessibility of the Center for Puppetry Arts:
- Include accessibility as part of our mission statement
- Provide continual accessibility training for our staff
- Assign clear accessibility goals and responsibilities
- Provide Sensory-Friendly programming, audio-described programming, and ASL-interpreted programming as a part of regularly scheduled season events.
- Take active steps to update and modify the website to support accessibility.
- Provide tools and resources such as adaptive art supplies, noise-reducing headphones, light-reducing sunglasses, fidget toys, and social stories upon request. (And work to add to and edit this back of tools/resources based on the needs of our patrons.
Conformance Status
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) define requirements for designers and developers to improve accessibility for people with disabilities. It defines three levels of conformance: Level A. Level AA and Level AAA. Center for Puppetry Arts is partially conformant with WCAG 2.1 level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully conform to accessibility standards.
Feedback
We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of the Center for Puppetry Arts. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers at the Center for Puppetry Arts.
Email: accessibility@puppet.org
Visitor Address: Center for Puppetry Arts, 1404 Spring St. N.W., Atlanta, GA 30309
We will try to respond to feedback within 2 business days.
This statement was created on June 1, 2022.