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Created using a universal design approach, the museum is for everyone!

The museum route has been created using a universal design, or ‘quality use for all’, approach that ensures that our amenities are accessible to as many visitors as possible. It has been awarded ‘Tourisme et handicap’ certification.

The museum features numerous multimedia installations and games. These help ensure the accessibility of the museum by developing technical solutions (headphone sockets, video player control, etc.) and by offering a multi-sensory approach that meets the needs of as many people as possible, diversifies learning channels and promotes user-friendly experiences that encourage sharing and inter-learning.

For blind and visually impaired visitors

The museum provides plates in Braille and large print and three-dimensional designs throughout the route on the main themes:

  • The art foundry
  • The periodic table at the Monnaie de Paris
  • Chasing and burnishing
  • Engraving with the reducing lathe
  • Hammer striking
  • Screw-press striking
  • Press striking
  • Manufacturing money: an outline of the production stages
  • Key coins and symbols
  • Other traditions, other currencies.

Certain objects are available for visitors to touch (with headings in Braille and large print).

  • Engraver's tools for direct cutting
  • Engraver's tools for modelling
  • The stages involved in striking, finishing and burnishing a medal
  • The stages involved in manufacturing a decoration (Légion d’honneur)
  • The stages involved in lost-wax casting.

Educational or historical sound videos offer an educational image montage and a particularly descriptive audio commentary, enabling visitors to understand the theme with sound only. A transcription of videos with audio commentary has been implemented: image and sound are linked and repeated, facilitating visitor comprehension.

Audio stories, sound experiences (workshop sounds) and olfactory installations (recreating the smells associated with certain workshop activities) are also offered on the museum route.



Illuminating magnifying glasses of different enlargements, guidebooks in Braille and in large print and easy to read and understand booklets (practical information and visiting the museum) are also available to borrow from the ticket office. The booklets can also be downloaded from our resources page.

Finally, the Monnaie de Paris, in partnership with the CRTH, enables blind and visually impaired people to access its cultural resources around the museum thanks to its ‘Souffleurs d’Images’. The concept: art students or artists will accompany visitors, free of charge, to describe to them the objects they are unable to see.

For deaf and hearing-impaired visitors

All sound videos are subtitled and translated into French sign language – more than two hours of video in total – on varied themes and with various content: artisans’ accounts, animated educational or historical videos, words from coin experts and a short documentary about the Pessac plant and contemporary manufacturing.

A headphone socket is offered for all sound installations, enabling you to connect either your own headset (standard jack), or an audio induction neck loop, on loan from the ticket office, for people equipped with a hearing aid fitted with a ‘T’ function.

For visitors with general learning disabilities

The museum route has been designed to promote user-friendly experiences that encourage sharing and inter-learning (in-situ screens of sufficient size for two or three people to consult them together), with several levels of reading and consultation (handling, spectator, etc). The texts respect good editorial practices as much as possible: simple short sentences using familiar and tangible vocabulary, simple constructions (active form, limitation of the noun, etc.) and the creation of a glossary available on all interactive terminals.

The multimedia design has followed good practices: the development of simple interfaces that limit the time spent getting to grips with the tool via a ‘flat’ content tree structure, the possibility of returning to the homepage at any time, animated ‘instructions’, simple text + images when needed.

Particular attention has been paid to designing an ergonomic and graphic charter, which has been followed throughout the museum.

Ten plates in Braille and large print and three-dimensional designs throughout the course on the main themes, providing a simplified and graphic reading of the themes (see ‘For blind and visually impaired visitors’, above).

Objects to touch and practical experiments (pantograph, hammer striking, screw-press striking etc.), enabling the visitor to participate fully in the experience, provide step-by-step explanations of the processes and mechanisms of making coins, medals, decorations and decorative cast iron.

Finally, educational or historical videos have a player that enables you to pause the video at any time to provide additional information or go back.

For visitors with reduced mobility

The entire museum experience is accessible to everyone. People in wheelchairs have access to the whole museum. Seating areas are available throughout the museum. Wheelchairs and portable seats are available on loan from the ticket office.

The museum is part of an evolving approach to design-thinking, enabling improvements to be made continually to its contents and amenities. We welcome your comments and suggestions. 

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