Virtual tours

Modern & contemporary art and accessibility in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Podcasts, videos and sign language… Numerous modern & contemporary art venues in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur offer virtual tours for people with challenges.

Discover the region’s virtual and sign language tours

Short videos

Many videos are available in French sign language (Langue des signes française (LSF)) for deaf and hearing-impaired people, offering an insight into various cultural venues in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, such as the Musée National Fernand Léger in Biot. A commentary on Léger’s work The Tugboat (1923)2 is also available online. Similarly, L’Espace de l’Art Concret in Mouans-Sartoux offers a short presentation of its collection and the site’s history. Exhibition tours in French sign language are published regularly on YouTube. The Musée National Marc Chagall in Nice also offers a presentation video.

Going further

Discover an artist or artistic movement thakns to French sign language and subtitled videos

The Musée Réattu in Arles offers around ten online videos in French sign language on specific artists such as Pablo Picasso and Antoine Raspal, together with insights into various themes including the days of knights and the museum’s history. A holder of the “Tourism & Handicap” label for the four disability types (auditory, mental, physical and visual), the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence has published around thirty videos presenting its collections on YouTube5, including one in French sign language. All videos are subtitled and the series features commentaries on works by Cézanne, Valloton, Dubuffet and Dufy.

Audio content

Podcasts on art in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur

The Nouveau Musée National in Monaco publishes a podcast titled Les formes de l’art revolving around the Riviera’s lively cultural scene, inviting artists, exhibition curators, gallery owners and collectors to discuss art and engage in debates on various themes such as “Vampires, from Bram Stocker to Andy Warhol” or “George Condo’s humanoids“. Audiences are also invited to visit their studios and galleries in person. The Mucem has its own podcast series too called Les Podcasts du Mucem, where you’ll find lectures, debates, insights into unusual objects from the collections, anecdotes and virtual tours. Last but not least, the soundscape creations by Musée Réattu and Arles town council have been prize-winners at the Phonurgia Novac contest two years in a row. You can enjoy listening to them here.