‘Specific needs’ or inclusion and beyond
In order to promote a culture of acceptance and participation of all audiences, Muve Education designs educational proposals according to criteria of maximum inclusion. However, these can be further remodelled and customised to meet any specific requests.
SUGGESTED MULTI-SENSORY VISITS
Ca’ Rezzonico – Museo del Settecento Veneziano
Eighteenth-century rooms and masterpieces
The tactile itinerary at Ca’ Rezzonico begins in the Spazio ‘700 – Muve for All space, a fully accessible room where it is possible to explore the scale model of the palace and the reproductions of The Veiled Lady by Antonio Corradini and Allegory of Light by Andrea Brustolon, which have captions in Italian Braille. The visit also includes an exploration of Giusto Le Court’s Allegories of Autumn and Winter and other valuable original furnishings and fittings.
Palazzo Mocenigo
Venice and perfume: essences in your hands
A multi-sensory itinerary that develops mainly in the section of the museum dedicated to perfume and its history. Real emotional and sensorial experiences are provided through tactile and olfactory exploration of materials of natural origin, including those that the ancient Venetians found in the Orient along the ‘Spice Routes’. These routes can be retraced thanks to a relief map showing the itineraries of the Mude, the maritime caravans organised by the Venetian Republic to procure these precious substances and bring them to market. The reading of some extravagant sixteenth-century recipes will reveal the ‘secrets’ of the ancient Venetian art of perfumery, with its cosmetics, medicine, science and magic. Recognition and tests of association, finally, will bring us closer to the world of fragrances that underlie the complex ‘olfactory families’ from which all perfumes are born. The tour ends with the composition of a perfume as a memento of the experience.
Natural History Museum in Venice
A touch of nature
The Natural History Museum is a ‘container’ of suggestions, capable of communicating information and contents of a high scientific level through multi-sensory experiences. The itinerary winds its way through the exhibition halls among fossils, ethnographic collections, and natural artefacts that can be handled and which narrate the evolution of life on earth, the complexity of nature and of living forms.
Doge’s Palace
A poem in stone
The ancient medieval capitals preserved in the Museo dell’Opera at the Doge’s Palace offer an extraordinary and poetic 3D account of the city’s stories, beliefs, customs and ancient trades. The tactile exploration focuses on the decorative apparatus of some of these works and, in particular, on the life-size reproduction of the ‘capital of the trades’, which allows us to understand the representation of the individual guilds depicted. The experience also takes place on important architectural elements of the Palazzo, preserved there, and using a model that can give a feeling of the dimensions, spaces and particular structure of the entire building.
Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art
The Forms of the Modern. Sculpture at Ca’ Pesaro
The itinerary includes a tactile exploration of representative works from Ca’ Pesaro, the museum with the largest collection of plastic arts of the twentieth century (and slightly earlier and later) in Venice. After a tactile analysis of particular architectural elements of the palazzo, the visit continues on the first floor of the museum with the exploration of some original sculptures by artists including Medardo Rosso, Adolfo Wildt, Max Klinger, Arturo Martini and Henry Moore. It will also be possible to explore the reproduction of the painting by Marc Chagall called Rabbi No. 2 or Rabbi of Vitebsk, which, thanks to different textures and reliefs at different heights, allows us to understand the composition of the fabrics, colours and outlines depicted in the painting on the one hand, and the details of the face and generally those of the figure depicted, the ritual clothes worn and the light, on the other. The reproduction is assisted by a tactile QR code that activates an audiovisual description in Italian and English, with subtitles and LIS interpretation, captions with highly legible characters, raised lettering and braille, and Test Me font suitable for dyslexic and visually impaired people.
RECEPTION TOOLS
We are preparing social stories for independent museum visits, downloadable from the website, with practical information and AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) images accompanied by short, highly readable texts, to facilitate the experience of all visitors.
SOCIAL STORY – CA’ PESARO
SOCIAL STORY – CA’ REZZONICO
Discover the social story for the visit of the ground floor of Ca’ Rezzonico – Museum of Eighteenth-Century Venice, which also includes the template to reconstruct a 3D copy of the SPAZIO ‘700 – MUVE FOR ALL space and preview the layout of the various interactive stations that are rich in sensorial stimuli.
All the proposals, offered free of charge, are carried out by in-house curators and specialised museum educators.
Reservations are required at: education@fmcvenezia.it or at 0412700370.