A list of the initiatives of the Rome municipal museums to make art accessible: what to see and how to map them.
People used to read movidabilia of news he knows that we love to travel and collect good examples of cities that make it accessible with rigor and innovation all services, including art, culture and entertainment.
With Accessibility Is Cool we're finding that it is not always necessary to go very far and how Italy could be school on accessibility and use of cultural heritage.
Obviously, when the Capital is at the forefront of best practices for accessibility, the rest of the country has a good example to follow in the wheel; so today we own in Rome and active projects with Roma Capitale, Department of Cultural Growth - Capitolina Superintendence of Cultural Heritage, with the museum services Zètema Culture Project.
Here are virtuous and technologically innovative initiatives that we can all enjoy and that you can help us to map.
MUSEUMS OF TOUCH
The project is named "by Touch Museum"It is nothing improvised or left to chance but is the result of an experiment lasted 5 years and has promoted the multi-sensory relationship with artNot only for the blind and deaf but to increase empathy with the work of art for everyone.
If museums from the beginning Tap involved the 4 museums of the Civic Museums System (MACRO, Museum of Rome, the Modern Art Gallery and the Napoleonic Museum), today the network is spreading like wildfire.
in Capitoline Museums you can explore by touch some sculptures and approach to architecture through various aids tiflodidattici, ie plastic and scale models of buildings and monuments, tactile thermoformed panels in relief and braille books in black and braille of works from the collection.
In Museum of Casal de 'Pazzi, for lovers of prehistoric archeology, I'm leaving two paths: the first, for the hearing impaired, resulting in the dubbing in LIS and in the creation of subtitles for all the Museum's media and one for the blind which will use four plastic reconstructive located in the garden area and that of the internal field. These environmental reconstructions can be touched by the visitor who will rely on the way, the audio notes of support tablets.
The accessibility projects in Rome do not concern only some of the ancient art:
The Contemporary Art Museum MACRO it has a Multisensory Room with a permanent tactile approach that describes the works and the way the artists and descriptions with historical-critical information, translated into L.I.S.
The Museum of Casina the Owls, who recently also distinguished for its guided tours for people with Alzheimer's, It is usually visited by users with motor disabilities, visual, auditory, intellectual and hosts guided tours edited by specialized operators, with pathways and educational boards of "touchable" works and Braille guides.
The Museum Montemartini and the Traianao Markets Museo dei Fori Imperiali, the Carlo Bilotti Museum, the Museum of the Casino Nobile, the ancient sculpture Giovanni Barracco Museum, the Museum of the Roman Republic and Garibaldi Memory They have made "tactile" visits to a number of works presented, with the help of blind people and volotnari of Civil Protection, beginning a path that goes to the enjoyment of all the works.
ART FOR THE BLIND
A new entry in this virtuoso roundup of the capital is the project Art for the blind, Opened on March 14, sponsored by Roma Capitale - Department of Cultural Growth - Superintendent Capitolina Cultural Heritage with the collaboration of Antenna – Connecting the world to culture.
The innovative project of its kind, is designed specifically by and for the blind and visually impaired to the Ara Pacis Museum; users will have access to the extraordinary heritage of the museum and get in touch (in the true sense of the word) with del'Urbe mythical past, the history and the altar of Augustus through a new and special multi-sensory exploration.
A route in six points allow visitors to hear a description of the Campus Martius area as it appeared at the time of Augustus to know the characters of the imperial family and, later, thanks to Ara model, exploring the different architectural segments monument as well as the mother earth panels, the processions, the Goddess Roma and Sacrifice of Aeneas.
All this is possible thanks to an innovative technology, it realized with the technical support of Tooteko - Talking Tactile e SIFI with museum services Zètema Culture Project:
The innovative technology behind the project: a ring with special sensors applied alongside the works starts descriptive audio information of each of the museum treasure.
Not only a tablet, with audio notes recounts anecdotes and stories related to the operating segments activated; a thermoform (A tactile map created in collaboration with the Institute of the Blind of Milan) gives information security (eg. Physical obstacles) and drive to the location of the audio-tactile works, for greater autonomy within the museum.
Let's not TO VISIT THESE MUSEUMS: MAPPIAMOLI
Beautiful these projects, right?
Our first call is to visit them, all or in part.
IMPORTANT The second call is to "Mapparli" with us, joining the campaign Accessibility is coolSo as to inform anyone, at any time, accessibility of museums and of the value of these projects.
- Visit one of these museums;
- Snapped a selfie (in areas where it is allowed);
- Pubblicalo su facebook (con geolocalizzazione attiva e privacy pubblica)
- Usa gli hashtag #accessibilityiscool, #movidabilia (e tutti i tag e hashtag che vorrai aggiungere)
L’invito è valido per i fruitori e per i gestori 😉