Accessibility

Visitors with disabilities are entitled to free admission to the Museo Egizio, regardless of the degree of disability, upon presentation of valid documentation or a Disability Card at the Ticket Office. Free admission also applies to one accompanying person. To ensure the best possible visiting experience, we recommend booking your visit in advance through the museum website by selecting the free admission ticket. Whenever extended opening hours are available, late afternoon or evening time slots are recommended. Throughout 2026, the museum is open until 8.00 pm every Saturday.

There are 36 tactile panels along the museum visitor route. Each floor is equipped with a tactile panel illustrating the layout of the spaces, services, and the location of additional panels providing detailed information about the collection.

Blind and partially sighted visitors can also explore the collections through the tactile examination of 20 objects, after removing all rings during the handling experience. Each object can be explored alongside an audio description, available in Italian and English, which can be downloaded via QR code and easily accessed on a personal mobile device, including for those wishing to prepare for their visit. These objects may be touched only by blind and partially sighted visitors, who are required to remove all rings during exploration.

The chronological route begins with the Predynastic period on the second floor, where an audio narrative introduces the history of Ancient Egypt. On this floor there are 5 panels and 4 objects available for tactile exploration. The route continues on the first floor, which includes 9 tactile panels, a wooden model of the palace, and 5 objects available for tactile exploration. The third floor is dedicated to the Gallery of Writing, where there are 7 panels and 3 tactile objects. On the ground floor, in the section “Matter. Form of Time”, there are 3 panels and 9 vessel reproductions available for tactile exploration by the public. Also on the ground floor are the Rock-cut Chapel of Ellesiya and the Gallery of the Kings, where visitors can find 2 panels and 6 sculptures available for tactile exploration.

Partially sighted visitors can further explore selected objects through this playlist.

The Museo Egizio also offers dedicated tactile tours led by Egyptologists with specific expertise. For more information, please call +39 011 4406903 or email info@museitorino.it 

The museum welcomes guide dogs for blind visitors, in accordance with applicable legislation on the right of access for blind persons accompanied by guide dogs (Law No. 37 of 1974, Law No. 376 of 1988, and Law No. 60 of 2006).

All audio guide content can be accessed by scanning a QR code and is available in Italian Sign Language (LIS) and International Sign (IS). A LIS version of Pimpa al Museo Egizio is also available.

To use the service, simply select your preferred language in the initial settings on your mobile device via the menu in the top right corner.

For the reception of visitors with complex communication needs, we rely on the expertise of the Fondazione Paideia, which has extensive and well-established experience in this field.

A wide range of tools is available both to help prepare for a visit to the museum and to support independent access to the collections:

• Wayfinding signage using symbols, integrated into the tactile maps available on each floor of the museum


• In viaggio nel mondo egizio, a short guide in CAA symbol-based communication (available on loan at the Ticket Office)


• Pimpa al Museo Egizio, a CAA symbol-based guide (available on loan at the Ticket Office). The publication can be downloaded free of charge via this link


• Three simplified “Easy Reading” thematic sheets (Deir el-Medina – The Journey of the Dead – The Gift of the Nile)


• A downloadable social story, available in English here.

A quiet, soundproof “quiet room” is available on the second floor, where visitors can find a calm space in moments of need. Access is granted by asking a member of staff in the gallery.

To prepare your visit, you can download in advance the web app that supports the museum experience with additional content via this link.

 

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There are no architectural barriers within the galleries of the Museo Egizio, and all floors are accessible by lift. In some areas, visitors may need to ask a member of staff for assistance.

The Museo Egizio provides two wheelchairs free of charge. They can be collected from the Ticket Office on the day of your visit; however, they cannot be reserved in advance.

For safety reasons, only guide dogs and assistance animals involved in animal-assisted interventions are permitted inside the museum, provided that a valid certificate issued by the relevant competent authority is presented.

The Museo Egizio is family and kids friendly. There are routes accompanied by a family-oriented Egyptologist, and routes with specific video guides (“Family Tour”).
The Museum is easily accessible for children. There are no architectural barriers in the rooms: strollers can be brought in without problems.

In the Museum there are:
Nappy changing facilities;
WCs for children (set at child height).

 

In some areas of the museum, ambient fragrance diffusers are used as part of a project designed to enhance visitors' sensory experience. Developed with the involvement of the museum staff, the initiative led to the creation of the Essenza Museo Egizio, the museum's signature fragrance.

The Essenza Museo Egizio contains substances including Geraniol, Linalool, Citronellol, and Eugenol, which are known potential allergens. If you have specific needs or sensitivities to fragrances, we encourage you to contact us for further information at info@museoegizio.it.