The Classroom pressroom at the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum is now accessible to a broader group of community members, courtesy of the Two Rivers Rotary.

A Rotary grant paid for the purchase of new height-adjustable tables and chairs, and for the addition of wheels to existing tables.

Rotary members also helped to unpack, assemble, and install the new ‘universal design’ equipment in the museum’s educational space.

Adjustable-height equipment is essential for an inclusive learning environment. This supports wheelchair users, individuals with reduced mobility, and people of all ages and heights, because we all benefit from personalized, ergonomic access. And the wheeled tables provide us with the flexibility to configure workshop spaces in locations that are the most convenient and accessible for the participants and for the processes and materials being used.

The new equipment has already proven to be useful over the course of various workshops.

Hamilton workshops bring about 650 people to the museum each year to create art with historic wood type and presses as part of our mission to preserve history for creative use today. Our education spaces have a high impact on our community, and the accessibility upgrade of our classroom space broadens the reach of that impact. We are committed to being an inclusive cultural anchor in Two Rivers: a place for people to learn, imagine, and create together.