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Opening of the exhibition will take place on 10.15.2015 at 12:00 in the West University "Vasile Goldis" Baia subsidiary Mare.Bd Culture No. 1-5.
At this exhibition were invited: officials of Maramures, Maramures members of the Association of Blind and Visually Impaired High School students in Cluj Napoca.
Pictures from the event can be found here .
The first museum exhibition of Romania, organized the benefit of people without sight, will be open to the public starting Wednesday (September 30 2015), the Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania (MET).
This event was financially supported by the National Cultural Fund Administration, a partner at the MET School for the Visually Impaired in Cluj-Napoca. The pieces on display at MET come from acquisitions made by the museum's specialists in the field work done by her and donations.
The objects in the exhibition are indicative of lifestyle and peculiarities of material and spiritual culture of the population in Transylvania, but were selected and tactile impact that you can generate. If there was another possibility, they were made replicas of pieces representative of MET heritage.
Visitors will receive specialized guidance and a leaflet plasticized in Braille. Access to the exhibition is tailored to the specific needs of people with no view.
Also, for better orientation, the entrance of the museum is located a tactile model of the exhibition space, which will help visitors better intuit the structure of space. The specialized staff of MET, which has worked on this project, believes that for those living drama not see the surrounding world and perceive it only tactile, auditory or olfactory exhibition is a chance to establish contact with a cultural environment so rich in sensations and mental generator through cultural and ethnic sense of belonging that triggers it.
sets of artifacts for tactile intuition will form the basis of museum pedagogy activities, each thematic area can be presented in detail in a separate session.
Making this exhibition unpublished artifacts tangible will be an asset in addition to attracting to the museum and visitors accustomed and children eager to touch and manipulate pieces from the universe Village Transylvanian traditional, much more because they were designed for two corners and playgrounds where waiting dolls dressed in traditional folk costumes and a number of other authentic wooden toys delight identical to those children in the villages of yesteryear.
All these toys are replicas of pieces from the patrimony of the museum, being carried out by staff of the institution. The exhibition at the MET lay the foundations for long-term collaboration with the School for the Visually Impaired in Cluj-Napoca.
MET will expand further the range of services designed to broaden access to cultural values traditional categories as varied audiences and has primarily in view people with different types of disabilities, which, unless special conditions are created, visiting a museum is extremely difficult or even impossible.
During this year, the Department pavilion of MET, the Hoia, will be mounted ladders with platforms that will allow access to disabled people in the exhibition space.
The exhibition "Living Treasure Maramures,"
In the above link you can find pictures taken during the exhibition.