Typhlological Museum

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Description

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The Museum for the Blind (inaugurated in 1992) is a cultural space devoted to the exhibition of artistic works and typhlological material (tools, gadgets, and specific aids for blind and visually-impaired people, models, etc.), which can be felt through the sense of touch.

Today the Museum has four rooms displaying the following: models of monuments and national and international buildings of the Human Heritage; paintings, sculptures, and textile art made by blind and visually- impaired artists; material and documents on the history of blind people, temporary exhibitions of many topics related to blindness, and art exhibitions of Spanish and foreign artists.

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Accessibility

Global

Global Accesibility

The lighting, the colors of the walls and its contrast to the rest of the elements make orientation around the halls easier for persons with visual disability.

Blind persons also have tactile orientation systems - like double pavement texture differentiating the circulation area from the exhibition - and sound system - like elevator information and photocells located at the main entrance and at the access to every hall.

All the written information is in large print and in Braille; and every floor has tactile orientation maps that help recognize the space and its distribution.

Physical

Physical Accesibility

Visual

Visual Accesibility

Hearing

Hearing Accesibility

Psychic

Psychic Accesibility

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Last updated:

Jan 22, 2019

Practical information

Tourist info

Address

Calle

La Coruña, 18

28020

Tourist area

Otros

Telephone

(+34) 91 589 42 19

Fax

Web

http://museo.once.es/home.cfm

museo@once.es

Metro

Estrecho (L1)

Bus

3, 42, 43, 64, 66, 124, 125, 126, 127

Cercanías (local train)

BiciMAD bike-share scheme

Docking stations: 152, 155

Price

Free entry.

Group visits with prior booking (possibility of English guide with prior booking).

Times

Tue - fri: 10am - 3pm/ 4pm - 7pm
Saturday: 10am - 2pm
Monday, sunday and fest: closed

Saturday 20 april 2019 : closed

August 2019:

Tue - fri: 10am - 3pm (1 - 14 august)

16 - 31 august: closed

Type

Cultural venues, Museums

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