No lift in National History Museum: ‘I have to leave my son lying on the ground’, says dad

Eoghan Clonan, 13, has to lie on the ground of the Natural History Museum so his father Tom can carry his wheelchair up to the first floor, because there is no lift in this national building.

“I have four children and one of my children cannot go upstairs to the first floor to see the animals (Mammals of the World exhibition). The reason why he can’t is because he’s a wheelchair user,” Tom Clonan told the Irish Examiner.

“I have to place him lying on the ground, carry his wheelchair up, run back down the stairs and carry him up, with people taking pictures, and put him back in his wheelchair so he can see the animals in the glass cases.”