Accessibility Always a Priority

The USS Midway Museum is dedicated to a complete experience for all guests:

  • Front-row accessible parking spaces, available on a first-come, first-served basis, on Navy Pier directly in front of the ticket booth. Regular parking fees apply
  • Complimentary, loaner wheelchairs are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
  • Elevator access from Navy Pier onto the ship.
  • Elevator access from the hangar deck down to the second deck.
  • Elevator access up to the flight deck
  • Wheelchair-accessible family restroom on the hangar deck.
  • Approximately 60 percent of the museum’s exhibits are wheelchair accessible.
  • Narrated video tour of all museum exhibits is shown continuously in the hangar deck.
  • If an ASL interpreter is required, please notify the museum no later than 2 weeks in advance.  There is no charge for the interpreter.
  • Written audio tour script is available for our hearing impared visitors. 

Welcome aboard!

Fast Fact

150 knots was the catapult launch speed (in less than 3 seconds)

  

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