Accessibility is a social responsibility that affects everyone. With the new interactive exhibition "MovAbility - barrier-free travel", the Swiss Museum of Transport, in collaboration with the Swiss Paraplegic Foundation, Cerebral Foundation and Infra Suisse, brings the challenges of getting around in a wheelchair in public spaces to life. The new wheelchair course allows visitors to experience for themselves the obstacles faced by people in wheelchairs and the solutions that exist for barrier-free mobility.

The centerpiece of the exhibition: the wheelchair course
The centerpiece of the exhibition is a specially designed course that includes different floor coverings and means of transport. Visitors can try out four vehicles under supervision: a minibus for public transport, a special driving school car for people with limited mobility, a funicular cabin from Stoos-Bahnen and a historic rail vehicle.

Comments on the exhibition
"The exhibition 'MovAbility - barrier-free on the move' allows visitors to experience the challenges of wheelchair mobility in public spaces first-hand and shows how barrier-free solutions can be implemented in everyday life," said Martin Bütikofer, Director of the Swiss Museum of Transport, at the opening of the exhibition.

"Unfortunately, accessibility is still not a matter of course in 2025," says Joseph Hofstetter, Director of the Swiss Paraplegic Foundation. We hope that this trail will help to raise public awareness of our vision of a world in which people with spinal cord injury can travel independently everywhere."

"The Swiss Museum of Transport is the ideal platform for raising public awareness of the concerns of people with disabilities. It encourages people to ask questions: What is it like to be in a wheelchair? How do you overcome barriers? We at the Cerebral Foundation are grateful to be part of this project," explains Thomas Erne, Managing Director of the Cerebral Foundation.

Selection competitions and the contribution of young road builders.
As a place of education and mediation, the Swiss Museum of Transport is keen to present professions and, in this case, road construction as a future-oriented field. For this reason, the selection competitions for "SwissSkills 2025" took place in the run-up to the exhibition. Over the course of two weeks, 18 EFZ road construction apprentices worked hard to complete the construction work for "MovAbility - barrier-free on the road" as part of these competitions. Teams from German-speaking and Italian-speaking Switzerland competed against each other for the chance to represent the next generation of road builders at the professional championships in Bern. Adrian Dinkelmann, Managing Director of Infra Suisse, emphasizes: "The mobility needs of society are at the heart of the development of our infrastructures. It is very important to our industry that young people are made aware of these demands on the "lifelines" of the transport system. With the project at the Swiss Museum of Transport, we were not only able to select the teams for the Swiss championships, but also set an important example for transport infrastructure construction."