Accessibility
Open House Lisboa is a festival open to everyone. Our aim is to make the experience as inclusive as possible. We believe architecture is discovered through all the senses — by touching, listening, breathing, and moving through spaces.
Accessible visits
Because Open House Lisboa aims to reach everyone, this year’s programme includes four accessible tours tailored to various audiences with specific sensory, cognitive and functional needs. This year’s edition features two sensory tours enriched with tactile materials and audio description for blind or visually impaired people, and easy-to-understand language aimed at people with cognitive disabilities, as well as younger visitors and their families. In addition to these, there is a Relax tour for people with neurodivergence, older people and families with babies, conducted at a leisurely pace in a peaceful indoor and outdoor setting. A specialist-led tour will feature interpretation in Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) for deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
The selection is made in partnership with Locus Acesso, which also carries out awareness-raising work with the volunteer team.
- Relaxed Tour
– Saturday, 11.00 am – Beau Séjour Palace - Tactile tours with audio description and easy-to-understand language (running alongside the junior activity)
– Saturday, 3.00 pm – Padre Cruz Neighbourhood Market
– Sunday, 11.00 am – starting at HortaFCUL and ending at Pimenta Palace – Lisbon Museum - Tour with interpretation in LGP – Portuguese Sign Language
– Sunday, 3.00 pm – Verride Palácio de Santa Catarina
Information and timetables can also be found on the venue’s page under VISITS.
Bookings via email at acessibilidade@trienaldelisboa.com or by phone on 932654213 until 8 May.
Physical access
On each venue’s page, under General Information, you will find details about accessibility for visitors with reduced mobility:
- Total access;
- Partial access — some areas may present physical barriers (such as steps or no accessible toilet);
- Restricted access — the space has significant physical barriers and is not adapted.
You can also filter venues by accessibility using the search options on the Open House Lisboa website.
Year-round
Before or after the event, you can explore our accessible content year-round. We recommend the sound walk through the Alvalade neighbourhood, narrated by Tomás Wallenstein, with audio description developed in collaboration with Locus Acesso. You can listen at home or follow the route on site, accompanied if needed.
