Accessibility

The museo marino marini of florence for people with alzheimer’s and for those who care for them.
To open the museum and make it accessible to everyone, also people living with Alzheimer’s, means that art – thanks to its communicative and emotional power – can help to overcome some of the difficulties of the illness. to propose emotionally engaging and stimulating activities, adapted to the desires and abilities of people with cognitive decline, gives us a way to know their inner world and foster the relationship between the participants: because, even whilst facing the challenge of the disease, they can continue to live an intense meaningful life, integrated within the social and cultural life of the community.
The project, which launched in 2012, also developed a dissemination program: a training course for museum educators and geriatric workers, funded by the region of tuscany, which assured that programs like this were not just the initiative of a few willing museums, but instead were implemented as region-wide program of museums.
we also propose special visits dedicated to family members and professional caretakers to provide them with effective ways of communicating with people with alzheimer’s starting with the encounter with art.
The art in your hands has attracted international attention. it was presented at the new york (outreach refinery, march 2014), the palazzo strozzi in florence (the 2nd international multi-party conference, november 2014 and workshop “art accessible”, November 2016), the zurich kunsthaus (symposium, February 2015), the aja (long live arts, May 2015), the summer school of the italian association of psycho-geriatrics (pistoia, June 2015), at the convention ma&a (florence, march 2016 and May 2017), at the 16th congress aip (florence, april 2016) and at the international conference on the creative age: global perspectives on creativity and aging (washington d.c., september 2016).
From September 2015 to August 2017, the Marino Marini Museum developed the MA&A project as the lead partner: Museums Art and Alzheimer’s with funding from Erasmus +.

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Guide dogs are permitted inside the museum.
Guided tours are available for the visually impaired. These consist of a tactile based visit by reservation, open not only to those with vision impairment, but to all those who would like to experiment with an approach to getting to know the works of art based on the sense of touch.

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Guided tours in Italian Sign Language (LIS – lingua italiana dei segni) are available:
The guided visit keeps its form, creating a dialogue focused on the museum collection together with a museum educator, and an italian sign language interpreter. All of the participants are involved in an experience recounting knowledge of the works of art through a conversation that develops in the group and to which everyone can take part, even if they are not art experts.

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A project developed with a group of Florentine museums, (Natural History Museum, Galileo Museum, FIRST Fondazione Scienza e Tecnica, Archimedes Garden – Mathematics Museum, Horne Museum, Casa Buonarroti, Florentine Museum of Prehistory, and the Museo Marino Marini), that has obtained funding from the Region of Tuscany. The WELCOME project (We Encourage Living Collective Open Museum Experiences) is dedicated to hospitality in museums, inclusion, and accessibility.
www.welcome-musei-firenze.blogspot.it/
With funding from the project the Museo Marini has carried out the following:

a “design for all” postcard with raised imagery and caption in braille

a video presentation in LIS

museum activities with the transportation service for the elderly that live in care homes (those which are not equipped with a mode of transport for group outings), and activities in residences and day centers

maintenance and restoration of the museum’s narrative paths guided by sound, to enrich the visitor’s experience

two boxes equipped with specific materials to bring “the museum outside of the museum”

4 puzzles from Marino Marini’s paintings to encourage observation through play and doing

various training events dedicated to museum educators of the 8 museums, on issues related to inclusion and accessibility

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The creation of a project dedicated to children with autism and their families is currently underway.
In the next few months it will become available on the calendar for activities for families.

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