Simply north of the town centre of Madrid, in Calle de la Coruña, lies a museum with a distinction.
The Museum for the Blind was inaugurated in 1992 and gives a novel expertise for the blind and partially sighted, in addition to serving to to teach others concerning the difficulties confronted by these with visible impairments.
The Museum designed with the blind in thoughts
The Museum consists of 4 rooms and is devoted to exhibiting inventive works and typhlological materials (gadgets designed and developed with the blind in thoughts, based mostly on scientific analysis). These are issues resembling fashions and devices which could be felt via contact.
Entry is free and reveals embody fashions of monuments and buildings of Human Heritage, each nationwide and worldwide, in addition to work, sculptures and textile kind artwork, created by artists who’re both blind or visually-impaired. Artists whose work is featured are of assorted nationalities.
The museum can also be residence to paperwork on the historical past of blind individuals and holds quite a lot of momentary exhibitions protecting something associated to visible impairment.
Museum offers vital perception into the world of the blind
In addition to providing guided excursions, the museum additionally holds occasions and workshops for most people, together with colleges and households wishing to be taught extra concerning the lives of the visually impaired. It additionally runs programs on Braille.
The museum is open 5 days per week from Tuesday to Saturday and presents guided excursions on weekdays.*
*Precise hours could be discovered on Madrid´s official tourism web site esmadrid.com, and could be topic to vary in keeping with the season. The museum is closed on public holidays.
