Segell de NahmànidesMuseum of Jewish History

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Accessibility

The Patronat Call de Girona aims to guarantee everyone’s right to participate in culture through universal accessibility and social inclusion. The Museum of Jewish History is a museum for everyone.

How do you access the Museum?

The Museum of Jewish History is located at 8 Carrer de la Força.

  • Access is on foot.
  • The street is cobbled, with uneven paving stones and a slope ranging from 8% to 12%.
  • The Jewish Quarter of Girona is characterized by its narrow streets, steep slopes and stairways.
  • If you arrive by private vehicle, there is 1 free public parking space reserved for people with reduced mobility in Plaça de Sant Josep, 290 metres from the Museum.
  • If you arrive by public transport, bus line L12 stops at Cort Reial (accessible stop on the pavement), 210 metres from the Museum.

  • If you arrive by taxi, you can get off at Plaça de la Catedral, 50 metres from the Museum, or at Plaça de l’Oli, 150 metres from the Museum.

Admission is free for disability card holders and for one companion.

The Museum has a wheelchair available for visitors. You can request it at reception.

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Reduced mobility

Main entrance:

  • Accessible with some difficulty: there is a ramp and three steps of less than 2 cm leading to reception.

Reception desk:

  • Not adapted, but Museum staff can provide assistance whenever needed.

Temporary exhibition:

  • Located on the ground floor, opposite the Museum reception.
  • Accessible via a ramp.

Core exhibition:

  • Located on the first and second floors of the Museum.
  • Accessible with some difficulty: there are steps higher than 5 cm to reach the first floor.
  • It can also be reached by lift after overcoming a step higher than 5 cm. To use the lift, ask at reception. Museum staff will accompany you and explain the recommended route. This service is available Monday to Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. If you wish to visit in the afternoon, please call +34 972 216 761 in advance to check staff availability.
  • The Museum spaces are easy to move around in.
  • There are a few steps between 2 and 5 cm that can be overcome with a ramp.
  • The exhibition is easy to follow.
  • If you take the lift to the first floor, ask at reception how to follow the exhibition in chronological order.
  • The vast majority of display cases and exhibits are at a height visible to wheelchair users.

Mikveh:

  • This is the only space inaccessible to wheelchair users, as it is very narrow and can only be reached via stairs higher than 5 cm.
  • Since 2021 it can be visited virtually through an interactive resource:
Virtual visit to the mikveh
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Visual impairment

  • Lighting throughout the Museum is good.
  • Exhibition furniture does not obstruct circulation.
  • Most texts have good contrast.
  • The size of the Catalan texts is adequate.
  • The size of the Spanish, English and French texts is somewhat small.
  • On the first floor there is an audiovisual presentation with audio in Catalan. The audio guide, without audio description, is available in Catalan, Spanish, English, French and Hebrew.
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Hearing impairment

  • The reception desk is equipped with an induction hearing loop.
  • The exhibition includes explanatory texts in Catalan, Spanish, English and French.
  • The sign-language guide, without audio description, is available in Catalan Sign Language with Catalan subtitles.
  • The audiovisual presentation on the first floor includes audio in Catalan, subtitles in Catalan, Spanish, English and French, and interpretation in Catalan Sign Language.
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  • The audiovisual resources interpreted in Catalan Sign Language can be consulted in our media library.
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Intellectual disability

The Museum provides the content of the permanent exhibition in Easy Reading format. You can download the PDF here:

Core exhibition. Easy reading content

These materials were produced with the support of the Economic Promotion, Local Development, Tourism and Employment Department, Tourism Service of Girona City Council, within the framework of the POCTEFA 2014–2020 territorial cooperation programme (INTERREG V-A Spain-France-Andorra), financed with European funds.

We recommend the Tourism for All Guide and the Accessible Tourism Map.