Visual impairment

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Accessibility and services

Walking sticks with rubber tips are authorized throughout the itinerary.

Guide dogs are welcome at the Museum. Dogs undergoing training are also admitted. Official documentation may be requested.

Visiting the collections with optical aids is permitted, but must be reported to the supervisory staff present (The Museum doesn’t lend optical aids.)

Audio-described Tactile tours

The Museum organizes tours of its permanent collections and certain temporary exhibitions led by a Museum guide. These tours are based on audio description and touching relief images.

Tour themes:

It’s also possible to visit the Museum’s temporary exhibitions (in French only).

For a more comfortable visit, we recommend that you limit the number of participants to 5 blind or vision-impaired people and 5 chaperones maximum.

View all possible visit arrangements on our Practical Information page.

Book for a group

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 5 blind or vision-impaired people and 5 chaperones maximum.

View all possible visit arrangements on our Practical Information page.

Book for a group

Contact

For any further information please contact us by email at [email protected] or by clicking on our online contact form.

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