Accessibility

It’s no problem if people with disabilities want to visit La Pedrera, but it is not easy for them to plan a day and time. They can show up on the day and at the time they want and notify our customer service staff when they arrive at La Pedrera. They will be given priority access to buy tickets without queuing and enter the building without waiting, through the main entrance at Passeig de Gràcia.

Below, you can find everything you need to know about our accessibility services and resources to visit La Pedrera without barriers:

• Priority access via Passeig de Gràcia 62.
• Lifts
• Ramps
• Adapted bathrooms
• Wheelchair lending service
• Tactile spaces
• Service dogs with access to all visitable spaces

The visit to La Pedrera includes lifts and ramps that connect the floors. It is partially accessible for people with reduced mobility and wheelchair users. The maximum width for wheelchairs is 63 cm; if exceeded, please contact us prior to your visit to discuss alternative accessibility options. The courtyards, the Tenants’ Apartment and the Gaudí Space (located in the Attic) can be visited without any obstacles to mobility. The Rooftop is very uneven and although it is accessible by lift and there is a platform right at the exit, it does not allow wheelchair access. However, visitors can get a partial view of the Rooftop from the platform.

The characteristics and morphology of the building make it advisable for blind or visually impaired people to visit it with a companion.

When using the adapted lifts, wheelchair users are guided by La Pedrera’s visitor services staff.

A wheelchair loan service is available to facilitate visits for people with reduced mobility. The service is subject to availability with prior booking: accessibilitat@fclp.cat

The exhibition hall is accessible by lift from the main entrance, via the Passeig de Gràcia courtyard.

For temporary exhibitions, an accessibility resource is available to support people with reduced mobility: portable seats. This support is for visits to the exhibitions and can be borrowed free of charge from the exhibition hall’s customer service staff.

The Laie bookshop can be accessed internally via a ramp and from the Provença courtyard. The Auditorium and the Gaudí Hall are also accessible by lift.

There are adapted toilets on the ground floor, in the Exhibition Hall (main floor), in the Auditorium and in the Gaudí Hall.

The Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation guarantees equal access to cultural content for its visitors. For this reason, La Pedrera offers a series of sensory resources that aim to facilitate the understanding of the contents and integrate audiences with sensory needs.

Sensory resources are continually being updated and introduced both in the building and in the exhibition experiences.

Accessible visits to Casa Milà

• - Videoguides: Several formats of videoguides are available, in different languages and taking into account the different needs and types of audiences. They can be requested free of charge at the videoguide desk, located in the corridor before the lifts. Oral deaf people have access to the content with subtitles and people who use sign language have access to the content in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) and Spanish Sign Language (LSE).
• - Guided tours: Signing deaf people can take a guided tour of the building with a sign language interpreter (LSC and LSE). A guided tour with a specific itinerary is also available for groups of blind or partially sighted people.
• Enquiries and availability at:
    Email: grups@lapedrera.com
    Phone: 93 214 25 76

Touch spaces including:

• - General model of the building with architectural and sculptural details, interior and exterior, which can be found at the beginning of the visit in the corridor between the two courtyards.
• - Tactile maps of each floor of the visit, indicating the itinerary of the visit. These three-dimensional plans are labelled in three languages in ink, relief and Braille. They are located on the ground floor, on the Rooftop, in the Attic (Gaudí Space) and on the fourth floor (Tenants’ Apartment).

Accessible visits to the temporary exhibitions

The temporary exhibition hall offers:

• - Portable induction loop system for hearing aid users with T-position. Available on request at the temporary exhibition counter.
• - Programmes in Easy Reading for people with cognitive difficulties.
• - QR codes with sound itineraries, narrations and essential texts to access the information of the visit.
• - Guided tours with descriptive itinerary and tactile resources for blind and partially sighted people.
• - Guided tours in sign language for deaf signers.
  Enquiries and availability on request:
    Email: accessibilitat@fclp.cat
    Phone: 93 214 25 69

Accessible activities

The activities at Casa Milà that take place in the Auditorium and the Gaudí Hall have:

• - Magnetic loops for individual use which can be requested from the staff.
• - Sign language interpreter service.
• - Priority seating for deaf signers and oralists, in order to be as close as possible to the sign interpreters and to be able to read the lips of the speakers or participants.

A large part of the Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation’s resources and services are aimed at improving the quality of life for the elderly suffering from cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease or other types of dementia through its dignified ageing programme.

La Pedrera attends to the needs for supporting the understanding of people with cognitive impairment.

Accessible visits to the exhibitions

Since 2015, the temporary exhibitions at La Pedrera have offered cognitive stimulation visits and activities for groups with the aim of encouraging memory stimulation before, during and after the visit. With the collaboration of psychologists and neuropsychologists specialised in dementia and familiar with the groups and their needs, cognitive stimulation and socialisation materials are created. These materials include selected works of art likely to be more attractive for working on language, orientation, attention and memory, among other cognitive processes.

These resources, created specially for the participants of the Foundation’s Memory Reinforcement Programme, are also available to other organisations that visit the exhibitions at La Pedrera and that have socialisation programmes to facilitate inclusion and the creative use of leisure activities, such as:

• Associations for relatives of people with Alzheimer’s disease.
• Foundations specialised in cognitive impairment.
• Associations that use art as therapy for mental wellbeing.
• Day centres and residential homes.

For more information about cognitive accessibility visits to temporary exhibitions, please contact: 
Email: accessibilitat@fclp.cat 

Guided tours for people with Alzheimer’s disease

• La Pedrera in memory: This guided tour is adapted for groups of people with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia. It is designed for organisations and groups that care for people with mild to moderate cognitive impairment. Cognitive stimulation materials are provided both to prepare for the visit and to work on after the visit.
  • Maximum 8 people per group and 2 companions.
  • Length of the visit: 1:30 h.

Enquiries and availability at: 
  Email: grups@lapedrera.com
  Phone: 93 214 25 76

• Easy Reading videoguides: For those who wish to visit on their own, an adapted easy reading version in Catalan and Spanish is available in the videoguide. If you need help activating this version of the videoguide, please contact our customer service staff.

Cognitive accessibility resources for download:

La Pedrera: Easy-to-read visitor’s guide