Museums that will be interesting for both children and parents. Visiting the animals Outdoor pool

What: science and technology museum
Age: from 0 to infinity
When to go: on weekdays. You can also go on weekends, but be prepared for the fact that there are a lot of people in the museum. At the same time, there is enough space for everyone!
English: excursions in English are possible, there are no signs in English
For people with disabilities: Yes
Exposure: 10 of 10
Friendliness of the staff: 8 out of 10
Prices: children's ticket from 250 rubles, adult - from 350.

"Experimentanium"- this is a science museum where you can touch, grab, press everything. There are no “museum” grandmothers here, no ropes that you can’t go behind, and no “do not touch” signs. You can touch everything! Moreover, both children and parents are involved in all experiments; everyone is interested here.

In Europe and the USA, this format of museums has been popular for a long time (Exploratorium, Kopernik, Eureka). Moreover, even in European classical state museums there are many exhibits that can be touched. In our country, something similar was created in 1935 in Leningrad by the famous Perelman, but during the siege of Leningrad everything was destroyed. So this format of museums in Russia is just beginning to develop.

Two years ago, in March 2010, several friends invested their own money in the creation of this museum so that Moscow children would have the opportunity to understand that scientific processes are interesting! A year later, in March 2011, the museum opened.

The museum has about 250 exhibits, all of which are in working order. Although sometimes it’s scary to look at how visitors treat the exhibits. But the museum management regularly repairs and updates everything! And nothing prohibits it.

In addition to the main exhibition of the museum, there are entertaining lectures, shows, a spherical cinema, and scientific classes for children. It is possible to organize classes in accordance with the school curriculum.

The area of ​​the museum is about 2000 sq.m., there are a lot of exhibits in the museum! Visiting time is about 2 hours, but you can walk much longer.

Strobe - a device that quickly produces repeating bright light pulses

Mirror with a very thin layer of metal. Such a mirror surface reflects half of the light falling on it, and transmits half of the light. If the lighting on your side is brighter, then your face will be visible to the person sitting on the other side of the mirror. If the lighting is the same on both sides, then this interesting effect is obtained.

Near each exhibit there is a sign with a description of the physical phenomenon and instructions on how to conduct the experiment! So even if you don’t know physics, explaining a physical phenomenon to a child will not be difficult

There's only one row of light bulbs! The effect of an endless corridor is achieved due to the fact that the mirror consists of two parts, while the front part is translucent.

Plasma ball

Magnetic chips

The soap bubble show happens twice a day (shown for a fee, 50 rubles)

The show is interesting and beautiful, but the museum employee will give any museum grandmas a run for their money! At some point, when the children, in front of whose noses she was blowing soap bubbles, began to get up from their seats and pop bubbles, the girl sternly threatened that she would not show anything else.

At the end of the show, all the children were lined up and each was given the opportunity to be inside a soap bubble. Even the little ones!

And this is a small tornado

A chair with nails to sit on

Using this exhibit as an example, you can explain to a child about friction on various surfaces

On the left is a bicycle, on the example of which you can see how a dynamo works.
On the right is a dancing chain that wriggles as if alive when touched.

Hall with soap bubbles

A hall dedicated to the structure of the body. This is what caries looks like.

And here you can take the hand stability test!
There are stands for small children, but they are still a little lacking

How does a piano work? The museum has a whole hall with musical instruments!

Ball flying above the air flow

Real truck cabin and car interiors

Drawing pendulum

And this is a new exhibit - a living wall

Maxwell's pendulum

Optical illusions. Both circles are spinning!

At the exit from the museum there is a slide, a store with smart toys and a cafe.

By the way, the museum promises that it will be very interesting for couples in love on February 14th. Come on a date!

Experts in early childhood development unanimously repeat: the more a child learns about the world by “touching and feeling,” the brighter and more complete the picture of the surrounding reality he will form in his head.

Photo: AiF / Valery Khristoforov

This applies not only to kids - remember, for example, how you forever imprinted Crimea in your memory by smelling cypresses and magnolias or touching a boulder heated by the sea with your hand. In general, there is still time until the end of the “summer release” from kindergartens and schools, so choose interactive museums in Moscow and go there with your children. Believe me, after touching a dinosaur tooth, they will learn and remember much more about its predatory owner than just looking at a picture in an encyclopedia.

Feel everything!

Darwin Museum (Vavilov St., 57, metro station "Akademicheskaya") ➊.

Remember how, as a child, in natural history museums, you painfully wanted to touch the tail of a stuffed fox, but the vigilant grandmother-keepers stopped any research impulses... Our children were much luckier. For example, in the Darwin Museum you are allowed not only to look at stuffed animals of all types and sizes, but also to go through the “Path of Evolution”, during which you not only can touch everything, but you must.

What if they... are alive? Photo: AiF / Valery Khristoforov

Together with your children, you will travel back 3.5 billion years, touch the fossilized imprints of plants and the first living organisms, touch shells and weigh a mammoth tooth in your hand, sit in the site of a primitive man. By answering questions, you will go through the entire evolution of the flora and fauna of the Earth - in just a few hours! And at the end you can climb the ladder onto the trunk of an old oak tree and find out who lives in it.

“Experimentanium” (Butyrskaya st., 46/2, metro station “Savelovskaya”) ➋.

Having visited the Experimentanium, your child will never in his life associate the word “museum” with something dusty, austere and monstrously boring (and, to be honest, this is exactly what many of us thought about museums in childhood). Because there is everything that children love and respect as adults: soap bubbles, a mirror maze, optical illusions. A child can launch a Foucault pendulum, play with patterns made of magnetic dust, pick up any musical instrument, visit the darkest room in the world and sit behind the wheel of a giant truck. Adults, looking around guiltily, also secretly try to create a cloud or look into a model of the human eye - because it is impossible to resist. It is important that all this is not just “entertainment” - while playing and laughing, children learn and remember the basic laws of physics, chemistry, etc.

Photo: AiF / Valery Khristoforov

“Lunarium” (Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya str., 5, building 1, metro station “Barrikadnaya”) ➌.

It is better for children to go here with their mothers. Why? Because women who watch their kilograms (and, according to statistics, 99% of them) can find out their weight here on... other planets, and it is this that, if the cosmic scales have played in your favor, indicate, for example, on dating sites. “Lunarium” is two-story, divided into two departments - “Astronomy and Physics” and “Comprehension of Space”. Here, too, as in the Experimentanium, you can create tornadoes and clouds (it seems that this is becoming a typical Moscow entertainment - Ed.), consider the Black Hole, the Ferrofluid Hedgehog and the Magic Hyperboloid Wand, and also visit in the lunar laboratory, look at stars and planets through a telescope, shoot at asteroids and even launch a rocket. In addition, your children can send a message to aliens - this will greatly stimulate literacy and the desire to write in general... outside of the school year!

Be surprised and touched

"Innopark" in Sokolniki Park (PKIO "Sokolniki", metro station "Sokolniki") ➍.

After having a blast on the rides, Sokolniki is a good place to have a snack and unobtrusively take the children to Innopark. In just 30 minutes, your child will be able to blow a giant soap bubble, control a robot and take part in gravity races. The guides guarantee that 90% of children who have been on “foreign excursions” show an increased interest in physics and chemistry, which is understandable: scientific experiments begin right at the entrance, and it is impossible not to participate in the process. An explosion in a flask, a robot - a friend for watching cartoons, a soap bubble that does not burst for 3 hours and even made it home - prepare your child for the Chemistry Department of Moscow State University!

Museum of Soviet slot machines (Baumanskaya str., 11, Baumanskaya metro station) ➎.

Even the “tablet generation” likes slot machines. Photo: AiF / Valery Khristoforov

Nowadays, you must admit, it is very difficult to tell modern children about your childhood: stumbles begin with the USSR and end with pioneer ties. The best way to immerse your beloved child in nostalgia is to take him to an interactive slot machine museum.

You can't light a lantern without a ladder. Photo: AiF / Valery Khristoforov

It is unrealistically difficult for 5-10 year olds with their daily available computer games to imagine how we begged our parents for 15 kopecks for months to fight in “Battleship”, but here they can really feel it! “Safari”, “Basketball”, “Highway”, “Winter Hunt” plus soda from the machine - a rare chance to plunge into retro childhood and colorize modern childhood, because the children of 2014 in this museum are first surprised and then touched.

“Lights of Moscow” (Armeniansky lane, 3/5, building 1, metro station “Chistye Prudy”) ➏.

You and your child can be a lamplighter, make and paint a candle, learn how to light a fire, attend a candlelight ball and walk around the center of Moscow at dusk with a special lantern. You can move back to 1812, try yourself in the role of a dispatcher at the lighting control panel, or touch the “vegetator with a torch.” Another option (these are additional programs) is to learn to write with a quill pen, play Cossack robbers (with an unobtrusive study of the history of Moscow streets) and even find a treasure! Apogee - tea from a coal samovar. Children squeal with delight and look at electric kettles at home with contempt.

It’s hard to surprise Muscovites with exotic animals. The city has public and private zoos, where miniature hummingbirds and huge gorillas are kept. A raccoon in the Moscow Zoo will not surprise anyone either. Come any day, look, just don’t touch it with your hands.

It is risky to enter a cage with lions, but everyone wants to hold and stroke meerkats and raccoons. Don't violate the ban on regular zoos; come to an unusual one. “Raccoon Country” is a place where you can touch a raccoon in Moscow.

Differences between wild and domestic raccoons

Raccoons, although predatory, are very cute animals. Many have heard about the habit of little animals to twirl objects in their paws and rinse them in ponds. Images of raccoons adorn T-shirts and notebooks; the animals are adored all over the world, but few have seen them in real life.
In the wild, the animals are poorly distributed in our country, although there have been attempts to breed them. They live in the North Caucasus, in the Volga region. In their historical homeland - the USA and Canada, where there are plenty of raccoons, people are in no hurry to contact the animals. If a smart and extremely impudent raccoon gets into someone's house, residents prefer to call a special service for catching wild animals. The fact is that raccoons are often carriers of various infections due to their habit of rummaging through garbage cans. When showing aggression, they may bite or scratch.
However, raccoons born in captivity are very amenable to training and keeping at home. Therefore, a large number of these animals can be seen in zoos and animal parks.

Pros of visiting a petting zoo

Petting zoo with raccoons provides an opportunity for everyone to get to know these little animals better, observe their habits and funny washing habits. Individuals born in captivity do not pose any danger; they can be petted, hand-fed with food purchased here, under the supervision of a specialist.
Communication with raccoons gives a lot of positive emotions. Visitors have a unique opportunity to participate in pet therapy petting zoo with raccoons in Moscow. There is a whole network of similar establishments in the capital, which have a common schedule and the same operating principles. Pet therapy, that is, close communication with animals, is indicated for people suffering from loneliness and stress. After visiting the zoo, children become calmer, more affectionate, and attacks of sudden aggression disappear.
Accustomed to constant contact with humans, the animal does not show natural protective qualities; it happily twirls in its hands, caresses and poses. From birth, the animals are supervised, they are vaccinated, and examined by veterinarians. At the slightest suspicion of illness, the animal is sent to quarantine until complete recovery.
Petting zoo with raccoons in Moscow It’s worth a visit to lift your spirits and satisfy your need for affection and hugs. Adults and children will be delighted by communication with the mustachioed stripes.

Where in Moscow you can pet a raccoon

“Raccoon Country” is a network of zoos in Moscow, each with friendly and touching animals, including, of course, raccoons. They have a special role in the petting zoo - to delight and entertain those who are tired, upset, have not been outdoors for a long time and cannot get a pet.

The raccoon's homeland is America. In the 20th century, Soviet scientists tried to resettle animals throughout Russia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, and Kyrgyzstan. It turned out badly and there is no dominance of raccoons in any country in the post-Soviet space. But within the walls of the Raccoon Country zoo there are a lot of them and everyone is happy to make contact with a person.

The zoo's pet raccoons were born and raised in captivity. From early childhood, animals were accustomed to being handled. Veterinarians closely monitored the health, vaccinated and monitored the development of pets. Healthy and non-aggressive raccoons ended up in a petting zoo, became tame and are happy to participate in pet therapy.

Pet therapy at the Raccoon Country Zoo is a session of communication with tame animals. You can feed them with treats purchased here. The keepers are happy to tell you what their pets love and also share funny stories about the zoo’s inhabitants. Pet therapy includes a visit to an enclosure with raccoons, roaches, degus, squirrels and other local inhabitants.

A petting zoo with raccoons in Moscow awaits guests every day from 10:00 to 22:00. Come to the zoo yourself or with your children, bring your friends and advise your colleagues. The touching look of a raccoon will melt everyone's heart. The American cunning man's manner of rinsing everything, not just food, in water will amuse you. Why does a raccoon rinse everything and why in apartments where raccoons are kept they even put locks on the closet doors - ask the caretaker when you come to pet a raccoon in Moscow.

Russia's first "Sensory Garden of the Five Senses" opened in the botanical garden of Moscow State University "Apothecary Garden". It is intended for visually impaired, deaf-blind, blind and mobility impaired people. Similar projects are gaining popularity all over the world, and now a living corner of nature has become available to Muscovites.

The smell of thyme

The sensory garden is the only place where you can and should touch plants to get acquainted with their smell and even taste. There are a total of 15 types of fragrant herbs in the garden, which are planted in special raised beds that resemble tables. Visitors do not have to bend over to look at them - everything is before their eyes and hands. You can also drive up to the tables in a wheelchair; nothing will interfere with your knees.

This is the only place where plants can be touched and even tasted. Photo: Arkady Kolybalov/ RG

And so, walking along such beds, Muscovites recognize catnip, cilantro, rosemary, peppermint, fragrant geranium, which smells of rose oil. Marigolds, lemon balm, immortelle, thyme, thyme and bergenia are also collected here, which does not smell of anything, but its large cool leaves are simply pleasant to touch.

The garden is very popular. There are up to 500 visitors a day, most of whom are people with disabilities. And in total there are about 1.1 million of them in Moscow. Adults and children reluctantly tear themselves away from the plants to talk with the RG correspondent.

“What thin leaves,” the visually impaired Muscovite Vera Filatova marvels, tasting the rosemary with her hand. According to her, it is very convenient to study unfamiliar plants here. Standing in one place, she reaches out her hand and rubs the leaves of different herbs in turn, enjoying their aroma. At the same time, he tastes not everything, but only what is familiar by smell.

The chief landscape architect of the "Apothecary Garden" Artem Parshin reassures that absolutely all the herbs here can be eaten. They were specially grown in Moscow nurseries without chemicals. But he doesn’t recommend trying immortelle: its smell is reminiscent of curry, and its taste is sharp and resinous.

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We can say that we have become reacquainted with rosemary, because here you can taste it in its pure form, but it is difficult to find it fresh in the store,” says Muscovite Sergei Lelekov, who came to the garden with his companion Galina Karnaukhova. - We usually take dried herbs, but rosemary, like coriander and basil, changes its taste when dried, and some herbs even lose it altogether.

Sergei regretted that he did not take vegetable oil with him for the salad. After all, his professional interest brought him to the garden; he loves to cook and participates in various culinary competitions.

Walking here, almost everyone has the desire to make a light summer salad. But the administration does not welcome picnics in the garden, unless these are organized excursions with tasting. Usually, after gatherings, a lot of garbage remains, and the plants in the sensory garden are not grown for harvesting, says Artem Parshin.

So far, one replacement of beds is provided per season, and, probably, this will be enough, because visitors to the garden behave delicately, and the herbs actively grow on their own.

The only thing Muscovites complain about is that there are not signs with the names of plants everywhere, and where they are, the names of the herbs are indicated in Latin. The organizers promised to sign all the plants in the near future and, possibly, make signs with signatures in Braille. At the same time, statistics claim that among the blind, only 5% can read Braille. Therefore, organizers are more inclined to the idea of ​​​​providing audio accompaniment in the garden. Most likely, this will be a special application that anyone can download for free to their mobile phone. By opening the application, you can find out where and what herbs grow in the garden, as well as get detailed information about each species and its characteristics.

Where the maple makes noise

“Sensory Garden of the Five Senses” is just a piece of a 7-hectare garden, which is considered the smallest in Moscow. Back in 1706, by decree of Peter I, an apothecary garden was established here for growing medicinal plants. A century later, the vegetable garden was purchased by Moscow University and acquired the name Botanical Garden of Moscow State University "Apothecary Garden". All plants here are grown without chemicals; organic residues are not removed, but remain as fertilizers.

More than 5 thousand species of various plants, collected from all over the planet, grow on the territory of the botanical garden. On the way to the sensory garden, you can see the largest water lily in the world - Victoria Amazonica. And at the very end of the small garden there is a pond where a larch tree grows, planted by Peter I himself. In the middle of the garden stands an honored plant of Russia - a 200-year-old oak tree, the seedling of which was brought by the first director of Moscow State University from Germany. Also here you can find collections of birches, maples, ferns, magnolias, medicinal plants and others. The greenhouse of tropical plants, where unique palm trees are collected, deserves attention.

The raised beds are easy to access in a stroller, and you don’t even have to bend over to the plants - they are at your fingertips

The Apothecary Garden is open all year round, but the sensory garden will only be open until frost. Next year it is planned to resume its exhibition and supplement it with new herbs. Moreover, Muscovites will be treated here not only to plants, but also to tactile floor surfaces on which they can walk barefoot. For example, there will be forest paths strewn with pine cones, soft wood sawdust and sand, and there will also be an imitation of the shore - a path strewn with pebbles. So for visually impaired, blind and mobility impaired people, a walk through the garden will be a real adventure.

How to get there

The garden is located a five-minute walk from the metro station "Prospekt Mira" ring. Passengers with limited mobility are helped up and down the escalator by inspectors from the Passenger Mobility Center. They are on duty at the station daily from 8.00 to 11.00 and from 17.00 to 20.00. You can get help with mobility at other times by first filling out an application on the website mosmetro.ru.

There is only one exit from the metro; on the street you will unmistakably find yourself on Mira Avenue, along which you need to go left for 350 meters. There are no intersections or transitions on the path. The three-story building of the "Apothecary Garden", through which you need to pass to get to the garden, is equipped with a ramp. Moscow is gradually becoming adapted for the movement of low-income citizens. Evidence of this is the people we see on the street, in public places and at public events: these are mothers walking in parks with baby strollers, a man with a white cane in the subway, and a customer in a store in a wheelchair. In the capital, for this purpose, constant work is underway to create a barrier-free environment. “In the city, about 85% of socially significant public buildings have already been adapted for people with disabilities and this work will continue,” the head of the Department of Labor and Social Protection of the City Population told RG Moscow Vladimir Petrosyan.

Specifically

Anyone can enter the “Sensory Garden of the Five Senses” during the opening hours of the “Apothecary Garden” daily from 10.00 to 21.00. An entrance ticket costs 300 rubles, a discount ticket costs 200 rubles. Admission for visitors with 1st and 2nd disability groups is free.

At the tactile Anteros Museum in Bologna, famous Italian Renaissance paintings are made into relief plaster copies.

Today, July 6, the foundation for supporting the deaf-blind “Connection” presents at the Moscow Flower Festival of Gardens and Flowers Moscow Flower Show a model of a tactile garden for deaf-blind and blind people.

This is an interesting project and a good start. We have already written about the exhibition project at the State Tretyakov Gallery. Now we decided to tell you what other museums and exhibitions there are in Russia and Moscow, where a comfortable exhibition has been prepared for visually impaired people, and which museums can be considered truly accessible.

According to experts, in large cities (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg) today there are from 150 to 800 visually impaired and blind schoolchildren, and the corresponding museum programs cover from 20 to 60 people. Until the last decade, visually impaired and blind children ended up in the museum by accident. Or - through the efforts of their teachers and enthusiasts from university departments of correctional pedagogy.

Experience of the Saratov Museum: come and paint!

Come to the Saratov Museum! Photo from the site saratov.revizor.com

— For the first time, a group of visually impaired children came to our Saratov Museum of Fine Arts. Radishchev in 2001,” says Galina Borisovna Guseva. – One of the teachers from the Department of Correctional Pedagogy at Saratov State Pedagogical University brought this group to our museum. I showed them the building and told them about the paintings. They liked it and wanted to come again. Now we “looked” at sculpture, dishes, furniture, and ancient picture frames with our fingers. This is how our cooperation began."

...Galina Guseva, first category methodologist at the Center for Museum Pedagogy of the Saratov Museum of Fine Arts. Radishcheva, visually impaired. She knows better than anyone else what difficulties these children face when viewing an art museum exhibition, and how much these children need these artistic impressions. Today, at the Saratov Museum of Fine Arts, she is implementing a special project - teaching blind children to draw. Since 2011, they have been creating amazing compositions by painting with their fingers on glass. Many art museums in Russia use her book on how to teach drawing to visually impaired children. Moreover, among Galina Borisovna’s students there are two completely blind children.

Galina Guseva with children during a lesson at the museum

Saratov Museum of Fine Arts. Radishchev has allocated a special didactic fund for classes with children: it includes ceramic objects, wooden sculpture, and designer dolls in historical costumes. Children can get acquainted with all these things by picking them up and feeling them. Museum teachers willingly take the opportunity to conduct such an activity with sighted children: after all, picking up an antique porcelain cup is a real adventure for any child!

Moscow: where you can touch polar bear fur

In the hall of the Darwin Museum: see a horse Photo from the site darwinmuseum.ru

State Darwin Museum

In natural science museums, programs for the visually impaired that focus on the sense of touch are considered promising. For example, soft labels in the zoogeography hall of the State Darwin Museum are equipped with samples - pieces of polar bear and seal fur, images of these animals, and the inscription “Can be petted.”

After touching the animal sculptures at the Darwin Museum, visually impaired visitors can stroke samples of their fur. This, however, brings great pleasure to sighted visitors of all ages.

Moscow Zoo

A special case is an exhibition of live exhibits from the Moscow Zoo. In petting zoos and at some specialized exhibitions, visually impaired children can pet animals, pick up live insects, and touch beetles and butterflies.

Central Museum of the Armed Forces

You can have an interesting time at the Central Museum of the Armed Forces (Moscow), where visitors are allowed to hold different types of weapons from the Great Patriotic War. But, of course, you must notify about your visit in advance.

Russian State Library for the Blind

Russia: “Be sure to touch with your hands!”

Tanais Museum-Reserve

If you want to bring joy to a visually impaired child, take him to the archaeological museum. Today they create special programs for children with special needs.

You can explore many interesting things with your own hands at the Tanais Museum-Reserve (Myasnikovsky district, Rostov region). The reserve was opened in 1961 on the site of the ancient settlement of Tanais, which once flourished in the Don Delta. There is something to touch here: sixteen and a half thousand ancient amphorae, antique marble slabs with inscriptions, ancient stone sculptures. Under the guidance of a museum teacher, children have the opportunity to become familiar with ancient ceramics, touch real antique amphorae, and learn how to sculpt dishes from clay.

Literary museums

House-museum of Korolenko in Dzhankhot. Photo from the site s-kub.ru

Some literary museums allow you to pick up and touch exhibits. This can be done in the “House of the Korolenko Family” in the village of Dzhanhot near Gelendzhik, where the writer V.G. visited. Korolenko,

In Moscow, the methodological center for sociocultural rehabilitation of disabled people is the State Darwin Museum. Already in the 20s of the 20th century, excursions were held here for people with special needs. The museum cooperates with various correctional schools: under an agreement with the Department of Social Protection, it prepares exhibitions for them and brings children on free excursions. The State Darwin Museum trains museum staff to serve visitors with disabilities.

From a manual on serving people with special needs:

• “Please note that all special techniques aimed at organizing museum services for people with disabilities are needed for all museum visitors (a ramp is needed for the elderly and children, a low counter in a cafe is for children). By caring for people with disabilities, we take care of ourselves.”
• Among museum guides, a group should be identified that should specialize in serving disabled tourists. Other museum staff should also be able to provide assistance.
• It should be taken into account that disabled people of all categories experience strong psychological stress and may become agitated while traveling to the museum.
• In the wardrobe, the number should not be placed on the counter; it is better to place it in the hand of such a visitor
• When meeting, the museum employee introduces himself and extends his hand first (if the visitor does not have a right hand, you can shake his left)
• The technique of tactile demonstration to a blind person is that they are brought to the exhibit and place their hand, preferably both hands, on the object and allow them to calmly study it, giving a clear explanation of what is under their fingers. You should not move the hand of a blind person over the object being examined; it is advisable not to rush him... It would be correct to name the colors of the exhibits during the story. Many people have residual vision or an idea of ​​color. It is quite appropriate to use the verb “look”. It should not be replaced with the verb “feel”

World: Renaissance in 3D

In the halls of the Institute. Francesco Cavazza in Bologna

On the websites of the world's largest museums, sections with a list of services that people with special needs can use in the museum have long become commonplace. The programs developed by the Departments of Museum Pedagogy are intended for all ages: from children with autism spectrum disorders to older visitors suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's disease (today, the social group of older people is considered especially important and promising for museum professionals around the world). The world's largest art museums provide visitors with a floor plan of the museum and some exhibition brochures in Braille.

It has long been possible to “see” exhibits with your hands in the Louvre, in museums in Germany, Great Britain and the USA. To achieve this, art museums open special tactile galleries in which works of art can be touched. Some psychologists advise starting to introduce children to the world of beauty through touch. Exhibits at the Elizabeth Morse Tactile Gallery at the Art Institute of Chicago (USA) are sculptural busts from different eras, covered with a protective layer of wax. For visitors to the tactile gallery there is a mandatory requirement: remove rings, watches and bracelets.

The Art Institute of Chicago has developed a technology for translating paintings into plastic reliefs. (3D printed replicas). Thanks to her, famous paintings are turned into bas-reliefs.

The charming “Sisters” by Auguste Renoir, printed on a 3D printer, in their tactile version, are a red relief board that can be felt with your fingers.

Experienced teachers teach blind people to see all the meanings of famous Renaissance masterpieces

In 1999, at the Italian Institute for Rehabilitation of the Blind. Francesco Cavazza (Bologna) created a tactile museum with the collaboration of teachers and artists Anteros, offering visitors 40 famous paintings of the Italian Renaissance, executed in the form of relief plaster copies. Experienced teachers teach visitors to “read” the painting with their hands, gradually revealing all its meanings - from geometric construction in space to the most complex iconographic details. Visually impaired museum visitors Anteros receive training that gives them the opportunity to independently study reliefs with their hands in museums in Italy.