More facilities for disabled persons at Antipa Museum

Newsroom 03/10/2012 | 11:05

Antipa Museum launched Everyone’s Museum project, an event where disabled persons can visit and explore the museum’s collection. The Antipa museum had already ramps for those with locomotors disabilities, bas-reliefs in Braille, and six boxes with pieces that can be touched even since the re-launched of the building in September 2011.

Through the Everyone’s Museum project, Antipa offers 20 new bas-reliefs dioramas in Braille, a temporary exhibition named “In the darkness” with animals that are active at night, with a blind guide that presents the exhibition, and workshops for those with locomotors disabilities. Moreover, two curators will be trained to offer information in the sign language. Special tactile carpets will be set up for the safety of the blind persons.

For the “In the darkness” exhibition entrance is free. From Friday to Sunday, between 10.00 and 18.00, the curator will be a blind person, who will present the exhibits. For this event, eleven animals were re-dimensioned to offer the public a better understanding of them.