Visually impaired people have for a long time been excluded from museum visits. The mediation of an expert during exploration sequences of an artwork is a useful guidance and has been studied through the lens of the multimodal interaction analysis (Kreplak & Mondémé 2016). In this paper, I present two researches on multimodal practices in tactile exploration at museums. Two settings are analysed: (a) a multisensorial visit in a French museum garden with visually impaired children, accompanied by two teachers, and (b) a tactile exploration of the reproduction of artworks in an Italian contemporary art museum. In the first situation, the guide is not trained and this is visible through the accomplishments of repairing “right” gestures by the teachers, while they lead the activity of reading a Braille sign by specific haptic configurations on the pupils’ hands (Ticca & Ursi 2019). The second setting is a tactile visit involving several visitors, with and without visual impairments. A guide facilitates the exploration of a tactile picture through her hands and her words, with a special focus on the translation of certain details from the original painting. The fine-grained multimodal analysis of verbal resources, touching gestures and tactile practices shed light on the collaborative activity of artwork discovery through multisensoriality (Mondada 2019). The experiences analysed here are precious initiatives in favour of social inclusion (vom Lehn 2010) and awareness rising towards alternative routes in museum visits, also for sighted and non-disabled people. ------------------------------------------------------------------------RÉFÉRENCES------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ KREPLAK, Y. & MONDÉMÉ, C. (2014). Artworks as touchable objects. Guiding perception in a museum tour for blind people. In M. Nevile, P. Haddington, T. Heinemann & M. Rauniomaa (Eds.), Interacting with Objects. Language, materiality, and social activity. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 295-317. MONDADA, L. (2019). Contemporary issues in conversation analysis: Embodiment and materiality, multimodality and multisensoriality in social interaction. Journal of Pragmatics 145, 47-62. TICCA, A. C. & URSI, B. (2019). Le toucher dans une visite guidée avec des enfants malvoyants : orientation, transition, expérience. In A. Mazur-Palandre & I. Colón de Carvajal (Eds.), Multimodalité du langage dans les interactions et l’acquisition. Grenoble: UGA Éditions, 253-280. VOM LEHN, D. (2010). Discovering ‘Experience-ables’: Socially including visually impaired people in art museums. Journal of Marketing Management 26 (7/8), 749-769.