THE AUDIOGUIDE IN THE PALACE OF VERSAILLES
The answers to your questions
Do we have to pay for the audioguide?
The audioguide is offered for free to all the visitors of the Palace (groups and individuals)
aged 8 and over.
Table of free use and reduced rates
Languages available
French
Adult
French
Child
Français
LSF
English
German
Spanish
Italian
Russian
Mandarin Japanese Portuguese Korean Polish
Chinese
The audioguide is available in eleven languages (French, English, German, Spanish, Italian,
Polish, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and Korean).
Is there an audioguide for children?
The palace of Versailles proposes a version dedicated to children with its content adapted to
them: the child’s version, available in French. This version is available for children aged 8 and
upwards. Non French-speaking children can use the standard version of the audioguide which
is available in other languages.
Where DO WE obtain and return the
audioguide?
Return
audioguides
Obtain
audioguide
Entrance
A
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Entrance H: for
groups and
disabled visitors
The audioguide is distributed inside
the Palace, after going through the
entry and bag check.
After visiting the Apartments and
crossing the Royal Courtyard, the
audioguide is returned at the counter
by the exit.
French
Kid
WHY TAKE THE AUDIOGUIDE?
For over 300 years, the Palace of Versailles has undergone many changes, leading to its great
diversity and also its complexity. To help visitors to understand the site and to preserve the
authentic atmosphere of the different places of the Palace, an audioguide is made available,
providing informative and lively commentaries. Enriching the visit experience, it helps to
recreate the ambience of the Palace as it was from the 17th to the 19th century.
How does it work?
In the Palace History
Gallery, the films
screened in some rooms
have an audio
commentary. The
commentary is activated
automatically.
In the other rooms of the Palace, after you press the room number on the
keyboard of the audioguide, the explanations begin. The room’s name is
displayed on the screen.
No.000: Instructions
No.200: Introduction
The listening comfort and quality allow you not to have to wear headphones.
Functions: Reading controls / Selection of comments / Adjustment of the volume
Display of the name
and number of the
audio track sur
l’écran
Stop the audio track
Key in the number
of the audio track
with these buttons
For more
information
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Listening zone
of the audio
commentary
Increase the
volume
Lower the
volume
Play - Pause
Which Palace circuits can I visit with the
audioguide?
Depending on the rooms that are open on the day of the visit and the ongoing restoration
work, the audioguide is provided to visitors for the following circuits:
- Palace History Gallery (the visit lasts about 30 minutes)
- The Grand Apartments of the King (and the Queen) (including the Hall of Mirrors, the
Bull’s-Eye Antechamber, the bedchamber of the King and the Council Cabinet Room –
the visit lasts about 1h 15),
- The Apartments of the Dauphin and the Dauphine (the visit lasts about 50 minutes),
- The Apartments of Mesdames, the daughters of Louis XV (the visit lasts about 1h),
- Museum of the History of France (the visit lasts about 1h 15-30 min).
The map of the Palace
Is there an audioguide for HEARING-IMPAIRED
visitors?
The audioguide is also adapted for disabled visitors.
Visit in French Sign Language
The palace of Versailles provides videoguides in French Sign Language with
subtitles, on presentation of a document proving entitlement and payment of a
guarantee for the visits to the Grand Apartments and the Hall of Mirrors.
For the FSL visits, a number is given to each room. The number is accompanied by the FSL
visual. Just click on the screen of the guide to launch the commentary concerned.
Hearing-impaired visitors
Magnetic loops are available for the visitors with devices. Headphones are also
available for hearing-impaired visitors. They are provided on request and on
presentation of a document proving entitlement. The audioguide screen indicates for
each new number the name of the corresponding room.
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Is there An audioguide for SIGHT-IMPAIRED and
BLIND visitors?
Sight-impaired visitors
The screen and the keyboard are retro-lit.
The numbers pressed appear in large characters on the screen.
A tactile and contrasting
display installed in the first
room of the Palace History
Gallery enables blind and
sight-impaired visitors to
understand
the
construction of the Palace
of Versailles.
A
specific
audioguide
enables them to listen to the
audio description of the
tactile display. They must
hit the number indicated on
the different modules of the
display (44, 45 and 46). Track 43 is the instructions track. An audio headset is also proposed.
The same audioguide enables them to access the commentaries of all the visit circuits (except
for the commentaries on the films of the Palace History Gallery).
Is there An audioguide for the Temporary
Exhibitions?
All visitors with a ticket for a temporary exhibition can obtain an audioguide. The service is
included in the price of the ticket.
The visitor does not need to change the audioguide between the permanently opened sections
and the temporary exhibitions.
For temporary exhibitions, three languages are generally available (French, English and
Spanish). The other versions are redirected to the commentaries in English. Ask about your
specific language.
The audio commentaries for the Grand Apartments are proposed in 11 languages.
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Is there An audioguide for the gardens?
The application for the “Gardens of Versailles” visit can be downloaded for free on an
Iphone, Ipod and Android Smartphone. Visitors are free to stroll around at their own
pace.
Is there An audioguide for the Palaces of
Trianon and the Estate of Marie-Antoinette?
The palaces of Trianon and Marie-Antoinette’s Estate have no audioguide. Brochures and
maps for your visit are available at the different entrances.
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