Accessibility and services
The entrance for visitors with reduced mobility is to the left of the main entrance.
It is possible to park a vehicle close to the Museum subject to a request made at least one week in advance via email ([email protected]), attaching the following documents:
- A scan or photo of the mobility card (or foreign equivalent)
- The vehicle’s number plate
- The make and color of the vehicle
- The date and time at which the visitors wish to arrive at the Museum
To access the Museum, vehicles must enter through the Tuileries Gardens via the gate on Avenue du Général Lemonnier (on the Louvre side). Inside the Tuileries Gardens, vehicles must drive very slowly with warning lights on.
All the Museum’s exhibition areas and services (café and book and gift store) are accessible by people with reduced mobility.
Special accommodations are available: Accessible toilets, access ramps, automatic doors and elevators.
The Museum lends wheelchairs, folding seats and walking sticks free of charge. You can ask for them when you make your booking or upon your arrival at the Museum.
Service dogs are welcome at the Museum. Dogs undergoing training are also admitted. Official documentation may be requested.
To help you find your way around the Museum you can download the Museum’s guide map below. The printed version of the guide map is available free of charge from the reception desk. Please contact our staff if you have any questions.
Guided tours
Come and discover our temporary exhibitions and permanent collections with a Museum guide!
The itinerary will be adapted so as to ensure all participants’ comfort.
Tour themes:
- In discovery of the Musée de l’Orangerie (in French or English)
- In Discovery of Claude Monet’s Water Lilies (in French or English)
- Portraits and Figures (in French or English)
It’s also possible to visit the Museum’s temporary exhibitions.
For a more comfortable visit, we recommend that you limit the number of participants to 15. Unfortunately we cannot accommodate more than 5 people in wheelchairs per group.
View all possible visit arrangements on our Practical Information page.
Self-guided tours
Explore the Musée de l’Orangerie at your own pace on a self-guided tour (without a Museum guide) in the permanent collections or temporary exhibitions.
If you want to guide your group yourself, you must have authorization to address the group. View the conditions for obtaining such authorization here.
For a more comfortable visit, we recommend that you limit the number of participants to 15. Unfortunately we cannot accommodate more than 5 people in wheelchairs per group.
View all possible visit arrangements on our Practical Information page.
Contact
For any further information please contact us by email at [email protected] or by clicking on our online contact form.