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French museum entrance vocabulary: tickets, lockers and admission

Edited by Chris Lee · Updated · About the library

Explore ten museum entrance facilities and visitor objects in French. Follow directions for buying tickets, storing a bag and entering the galleries.

In short

Buy your museum ticket à la billetterie, leave a bag dans un casier and show your ticket au contrôle. Le vestiaire is the staffed cloakroom; la consigne can refer to the luggage-storage service or area. Explore ten visible targets and follow the visitor’s route.

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A museum visitor puts a backpack inside an open unnumbered locker while an aunt waits nearby.
Jules leaves his backpack dans un casier. Illustration: Atelier

From the ticket office to the galleries

Spacious museum entrance hall viewed diagonally from above. On the left is a staffed ticket-office desk, and next to it a separate self-service ticket machine.
Three stages of admission
French directionWhat to do
Achetez votre billet à la billetterie.Buy the admission ticket.
Déposez votre sac dans un casier.Put your bag in a locker.
Présentez votre billet au contrôle.Show the ticket at the checkpoint.

Avant la visite

Jules et sa tante arrivent pour une exposition de photographies. Ils achètent leurs billets à la billetterie. L’agent leur indique les casiers : « Pour cette exposition, déposez votre sac à dos ici, puis gardez votre billet à la main. » Jules ferme son casier1 et rejoint sa tante près du plan. Elle prend une brochure dans le présentoir. Au contrôle des billets2, une agente leur montre l’escalier. « La première salle est au premier étage. Vous trouverez les portraits en haut3, à droite. » Jules regarde une dernière fois le plan avant de monter.

Read it in English

Jules and his aunt arrive for a photography exhibition. They buy their tickets at the ticket office. The member of staff points out the lockers: “For this exhibition, put your backpack here, then keep your ticket in your hand.” Jules closes his locker and joins his aunt near the map. She takes a leaflet from the rack. At the ticket checkpoint, a staff member points to the staircase. “The first room is on the first floor. You’ll find the portraits upstairs, on the right.” Jules checks the map once more before going up.

au vestiaireat the cloakroom

Focus: A service desk for leaving coats or belongings

Je voudrais laisser mon manteau au vestiaire.
I’d like to leave my coat at the cloakroom.

dans un casierin a locker

Focus: The individual compartment holding your bag

Mon sac est dans le casier.
My bag is in the locker.

Question 1No account needed
Where can you buy a ticket from a person?Pour acheter votre billet, adressez-vous à l’agent de la billetterie.

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

la billetterie. The instruction names an agent at la billetterie, the staffed ticket office.

Question 2No account needed
Where should the bag go?Déposez votre sac dans un casier.

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

le casier. Dans un casier means inside an individual locker.

Question 3No account needed
Find what you should keep ready.Gardez votre billet d’entrée à la main.

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

le billet d’entrée. Le billet d’entrée is the admission ticket you show to enter.

Question 4No account needed
Where do you show the ticket?Présentez votre billet au contrôle.

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

le contrôle des billets. Au contrôle means at the ticket checkpoint, after purchasing the ticket.

Question 5No account needed
Which route goes upstairs?Prenez l’escalier pour accéder au premier étage.

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

l’escalier. Prenez l’escalier directs the visitor to the staircase leading upstairs.

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