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Accessibility is a priority for the public institution of the Château de Versailles, which is pursuing its action in favour of people with disabilities and reduced mobility, including special tours for visitors with different types of handicaps and the creation of various facilities to improve their visiting conditions.

Contact the special visitors information office
Telephone: 01 30 83 75 05 – Fax: 01 30 83 74 26
handicap@chateauversailles.fr

Free admission and priority access

Admission to the permanent collections and temporary exhibitions of the Château de Versailles is free for people with disabilities and an accompanying person, except for guided tours, and the Grand Musical Fountain Display.

Access to the palace by using the gate A. An access ramp is available for people with limited mobility.

Visitors’ aids

Visitors’ aids

Video-guides in French Sign Language and with French subtitles are available upon presentation of proof for visiting the Grand Apartments of the King and Queen. Audio-guides compatible with induction loop and ear contour hearing aids are available for hearing-impaired visitors.

Visitors with analogue hearing aids that have a T-coil position or others can request audiophones equipped with induction or magnetic loops during individual guided tours.

Château

Château

The itineraries accessible to people with disabilities are the:

  • Grand Apartments of the King and Queen (including the Hall of Mirrors, ox-eye room, king’s bedchamber and Council Room)
  • 18th-century chapel and lower gallery
  • galleries of the history of France
  • apartments of the Dauphin, the crown prince
  • apartments of the royal princesses, Louis XV’s daughters

Trianon and Marie-Antoinette’s hamlet

Trianon and Marie-Antoinette’s hamlet

Contact us for information on access to the different spaces of Marie-Antoinette’s hamlet.
A multimedia room on the ground floor of the Petit Trianon explains how the flying tables ordered by Louis XV worked. The room is accessible to people with reduced mobility in order to present a virtual tour of the château’s floors.
The Grand Trianon’s apartments and the Trianon gardens are accessible.

Download the map of the Petit Trianon (french, Pdf file, 730 Mo)

Warning - Tuesday 23 March 2010

Because of a strike notice, disturbances are expected this day.