The Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) is responsible for more than 40 million documents collected over the five centuries of its existence. In addition to books, magazines, photographs, prints, maps, sheet music, audio and audiovisual documents and video games collected through legal deposit, the library’s collections also include manuscripts, coins and medals, and theatre sets and costumes. All intellectual, artistic, and scientific disciplines are represented, in an encyclopaedic spirit.
A place par excellence for the dissemination of knowledge, the BnF, on its various sites (François-Mitterrand, Richelieu, Arsenal and Opéra) offers reading rooms for study and research, and has a cultural programme both on site and online. Each year, it organizes some fifteen exhibitions to promote the richness of its collections and hosts some one hundred readings, lectures, shows and concerts. The François Mitterrand site hosts more than 200 cultural events: talks, colloques, projections, master classes and presents the annual festival Bibliothèque Parlante (in June) where the greatest actors gather for exceptional readings and meetings. The BnF collections can also be discovered through its many exhibitions featuring major literary figures (Proust, Champollion, Baudelaire, Tolkien, the Surrealists …) or major themes (the world of spheres, manuscripts of the extreme, a century of exploration…).
A programme of themed visits and practical workshops for all complements the cultural programme and the resources of the reading rooms.
Open on public holidays
* May 8
* November 11th
* July 14th
* August 15th
* January 1st
* May 1st
* November 1st
* December 25th
* Ascension
* Whit Monday
* Easter Monday
* Pentecost
* Easter

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Accessibility summary
Motor disability:
\- Parking on request and presentation of a disability badge 48 hours in advance (accueil.handicap@bnf.fr), access to staff parking area from Monday to Saturday for arrival before 2.30pm and on Sundays for arrival between 11.45am and 1.45pm (please specify the names of all people attending and the registration number of the vehicle, due to the Vigipirate security plan)
\- Floor-level entrance on Avenue de France and access by lift
\- Lowered and adapted reception desk, access gate allowing for autonomy
\- Adapted communal toilets with grab rail and adapted sink
\- Restaurant with wide aisles and adapted tables for wheelchair users.
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Visual impairment:
\- Secure guiding path with tactile floor and sound terminals from the edge of the site to the welcome desk
\- transparent glass walls/doors marked with contrasting elements
\- no head-level obstacles in the corridors
\- stairs with tactile and visual contrast before first step down with continuous hand rail and contrasting step edges
\- lift with speakers to announce floor numbers, portable electronic magnifying glasses, video enlargers, reading machines, Vocale Presse software, braille and large font
\- adapted exhibitions.
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Hearing impairment:
\- Magnetic induction loop, subscription to a French Sign Language interpreting service and real-time subtitles at all information points (this subscription also allows deaf and hard-of-hearing visitors to contact the Library online before arrival)
\- auditoriums and certain public telephones equipped with induction loops
\- tours and conferences interpreted in French Sign Language, audio headsets with induction loop available
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Mental disability:
\- Trained/educated staff
\- easy to understand and legible signs with pictograms
\- entrance monitored by CCTV and visible from reception.
Useful information
https://www.bnf.fr
contact@bnf.fr
+33 (0) 1 53 79 59 59

Address
Quai François Mauriac, 75706, Paris