Cité des sciences et de l'industrie

Physical disability:
- 32 disabled spaces in the carpark (maximum car height 1.8 m)
- All event spaces are adapted (exhibition and conference spaces, cinemas, restaurants & toilets)
- Exhibitions have easy access (ramps, lifts, escalators, ergonomic exhibition elements) except the submarine Argonaute and certain presentations
- Cinemas, show halls and resource rooms are wheelchair accessible
Reserved spaces for wheelchair users:
- Auditorium: 9
- Cinema Louis Lumière: 3
- Planetarium: 7
- Visit tools: maps indicating vertical traffic
- From the Porte de la Villette tram and bus stops, the Cité can be accessed directly via an access ramp with a gradient of under 4%

Visual impairment:
- Guide strips on the ground outside the parvis and inside
- Tactile and sound model
- Audiodescription and audioguide for navigation
- Exhibitions have diagrams in relief
- Tactile images
- Texts in braille
- Models
- Audio content
- Internship in relief drawing and graphic communication, discovering the NVDA screen-reading tool, IT and Internet training, etc.
- Individual accompaniment offered (contact servicecivique-dqua1@universcience.fr on Tuesday, Wednesdays & Thursdays or servicecivique-ddpc1@universcience.fr on Fridays & Saturdays, or call +33 (0)6 09 51 34 30)

Hearing impairment:
- Exhibitions with films in French Sign Language and films subtitled in French (sometimes in English or Spanish)
- French/International Sign Language interpreters, as well as tactile sign language (for deaf-blind people)
- Exhibitions present many clear and explicit visual elements, audiovisual elements with subtitles and French Sign Language interpreting and films in French Sign Language
- A videoguide in French Sign Language is available for visiting the submarine Argonaute
- The tills, certain information points and the show and conference rooms are equipped with magnetic induction loops
- Audioguides with adjustable volume for the Planetarium and certain temporary exhibitions
- Toilets and other isolated location equipped with visual alarms
- Museum staff speak French Sign Language

Mental disability:
- In exhibitions, the variety and complementary nature of tools and aids (touch models, decoration, films, interactive elements) and information channels (touch, image, sound) helps visitors to understand the content
- Exhibitions have an emphasis on hands-on interaction: easy experiences, models, objects, etc.
- Visitors with mental disabilities can be accompanied without prior booking; adapted visits for groups or individuals can also be booked
Tools for visits can be downloaded:
¤ maps of permanent exhibitions with commentary in French: http://www.cite-sciences.fr/fr/ma-cite-accessible/handicap-mental/aides-a-la-visite/
¤ films in French showing the accessible elements of the ‘Sounds’ exhibition: http://www.cite-sciences.fr/fr/ma-cite-accessible/handicap-mental/films-daide-a-la-visite/les-sons/
- During quality improvement works, standardized signage is displayed to help navigation


Contact for visitors with disabilities:
- Physical disability: +33 (0)1 40 05 70 86 / info.handicap@universcience.fr
- Visual impairment: +33 (0)1 40 05 79 54 or+ 33 (0)1 40 05 75 35 / info.deficientvisuel@universcience.fr
- Hearing impairment: +33 (0)9 70 26 05 15 or +33 (0)9 70 26 05 55 / info.sourd@universcience.fr
- Mental disability: +33 (0)1 40 05 70 86 / info.handicap@universcience.fr