Swaffham Museum is an independent social history museum providing a wealth of information about the locality. Creating disabled access into the building, TORMAX was recently contracted to install an automatic telescopic sliding door, maximising the available pass-through distance within the limited available space.

“We wanted to encourage passers-by to come in and explore the Museum”, explains Tim Lynch, from the Museum. “The new glass sliding door creates an effective entrance lobby, allowing us to leave the outer door open so that people can easily see inside. It also makes the access much more user-friendly and welcoming to everyone, especially for less-able visitors and those with buggies.”

Delivering smooth operation and exceptional reliability, the entrance is powered by the in-house designed, TORMAX iMotion 2202.A door drive.

Situated in the original Town Hall building that dates back to 1810, the Swaffham Museum opened in 1986 and features five local history and geology exhibitions. Perhaps the most famous local hero who is celebrated in the Egyptology room is Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922.

Being an historic building, Swaffham Museum needed to maintain the existing external entrance, as well as a set of internal wooden folding doors which created a lobby area. However, the folding doors were not very user-friendly and also created a visual barrier to potential visitors walking past in the street.

TORMAX was able to install an elegant automatic sliding door within the existing set of folding doors, maintaining the heritage feature whilst improving accessibility for all visitors.

Aesthetically unobtrusive the iMotion 2202.A door drive combines reliable AC motor technology with a state of the art microprocessor control system in a slender guide track with an installation height of only 100mm.

“TORMAX has a proven track record of delivering automatic entrances to historically sensitive locations,” comments Simon Roberts, MD for TORMAX UK.

“The telescopic solution installed at Swaffham Museum allows a sliding door to be installed in areas where space is at a premium, whilst our range of concealed door drives offer invisible swing door automation.”