Thanks to the exhibition organized by the Museum Society of Montenegro in cooperation with the Balkan Museum Network, visually impaired people in Nikšić had the opportunity to "touch the heritage", but also to be part of the community that has the opportunity to get to know part of the exhibits of the Museum of Natural History from Podgorica and the museum from Nikšić, Pljevlja, Kotor and Tivat.
"These kinds of activities are very significant because the focus of activities on people with disabilities is not only on the areas of social protection, health and possibly education and employment, but also on other segments of social life, in this case on culture," he said. Goran Macanović, executive director of the Blind Association of Montenegro.
According to him, the exhibition enables visually impaired people to get to know the culture of both Nikšić and Montenegro, and the accessibility of cultural content is, as he pointed out, something that enriches every person.
"I hope that this is just one of the exhibitions that will be adapted to people with impaired vision, and what I would like and what our society should generally strive for is that in the handful of cultural institutions that we have in Montenegro, we experience that any visitor with with blurred vision, whether from Montenegro or a tourist, when he comes and visits one of the cultural institutions, he has adapted contents and the opportunity to get acquainted with the very rich culture of Montenegro", said Macanović.
When the reconstruction of the Nikšić Museum is finished, that possibility will, according to the words Violeta Vukosavljević, managers of the JU Museums and Galleries work unit, to be accessible to people with disabilities.
At the "Touch of Heritage" exhibition, in the foyer of the Nikšić Theatre, each museum participating in the project is represented by three objects placed on one panel via drawings in 2D format, text in Braille and an audio recording that is available to visitors via a QR code. . Exhibits from the periods of prehistory, antiquity and the Middle Ages were presented, as well as examples of flora and fauna characteristic of Montenegro.
"Such exhibitions are very important both for the inclusion of blind and partially sighted people, as an important group of museum visitors, and for connecting the cultural community, which perceives the modalities of accessibility of museum contents in this way, to people with different types of disabilities," Vukosavljević pointed out.
The exhibition was first opened in the Library for the Blind in Podgorica.
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