Access in museums

Anna,

Yes, there are elevators at the Louvre & Museum d'Orsay & Versailles Chateau & all of them have access for the disabled.

You may check the Paris Museum Pass website for more information on each of the museums/monuments that you'd like to visit.
When you check each of the museums by name, you can see the disabled access icon towards the bottom of the descriptive page: http://en.parismuseumpass.com/rub-m-by-name-5.htm

Here is the information you seek:

• http://www.louvre.fr/en/accessibility

• http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/espace-particuliers/private-individuals/disabled-visitors/welcome.html

• http://en.chateauversailles.fr/plan-your-visit/accessibility/individual-visits

I think you will have to email those places directly. I noticed you can rent wheelchairs or push chairs at the Louvre.

Hopefully others can refute this, but in all my trips and all the places I've been I have never seen a motorized wheelchair or scooter like you mean anywhere, even on the street or sidewalk.

In fact, I can't recall ever seeing anyone out and about in a wheelchair under their own power. I have only seen people being pushed.

You might take a look at this forum discussion from a few years ago: https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/general-europe/renting-a-wheelchair-in-paris.

I have also not ever seen a scooter in Paris, but the Louvre is very well equipped for wheel chairs with elevators for every staircase (there are lots of staircases). Some of the spaces at the Orsay are rather cramped for something needing as much space as a scooter, Hope you can get the needed information.

Anna,

I'd also suggest you contact the museums you'd like to visit & ask if your electric scooter will be allowed inside.

If your electric scooter is not allowed inside the museums, you may borrow a manually operated wheelchair at each of the sites on your list.

Here is the information found on the Louvre website:

"Manually operated wheelchairs and folding seats are available for loan free of charge at the information desk in exchange for an ID card or passport. No reservations required."

From the Versailles website:

"Non-motorised wheelchairs are available free of charge to visit the inside rooms of the Palace only, subject to availability and the temporary deposit of an official identity document.
The wheelchairs cannot be used outdoors"

From the Orsay website:

"Wheelchairs, folding chairs and pushchairs
are available at the cloakroom"

You may also contact Sage Traveling for more information.
- http://www.sagetraveling.com/Paris-Disabled-Access

Hope this helps...