Mundolingua, Language museum in 6th arrondissement, France.
Mundolingua occupies the ground floor and a vaulted cellar of about 100 square metres in the 6th arrondissement. Its five sections use touchscreens with headphones, games and objects: a large head that lights up the place of articulation when a phonetic character is pressed, a booth where recordings of 1700 languages can be heard, 3D family trees on the cellar ceiling, a Rosetta Stone facsimile and an Enigma machine. A sign above the wooden door reads "Musée des langues Languages and Linguistics".
The museum was founded by a New Zealand linguist who developed the concept starting in 2010 and opened it in 2013 with the mayor of the 6th arrondissement present. This founding brought a fresh type of language museum to Paris.
The museum displays how people use language to express feelings and ideas through sections on slang, wordplay, and invented languages. These areas show how creative and alive human communication truly is.
The museum occupies two levels: a ground floor with the language and learning rooms, and a vaulted cellar of about 100 square metres divided into three sections. School groups follow two dedicated visit plans with questionnaires and a workshop; a separate plan exists for children and another for blind visitors. Thematic evenings with lectures and debates are also held.
The basement holds a life-sized facsimile of the Rosetta Stone made by the British Museum, and a large model of the braille alphabet lets visitors read a phrase by touch. A giant Scrabble board and a Second World War Enigma coding machine sit in the games room.
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