Activities in Italy

The Museum of Rome is fully accessible, thanks to the presence of a stair lift (maximum weight supported by the platform Kg. 300) on the courtyard floor that allows access to the elevator leading to the three floors of visits. A wheelchair for those with walking difficulties is available inside the museum upon request. There are also paths for blind people with specific activities.
- Adaptability: 1- Reduced mobility, 3- Visually impaired
- Languaje Available: Local + English
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For visitors with mobility problems, the Vatican Museums offer free wheelchair hire from the cloakroom (subject to availability). To hire a wheelchair, it is necessary to present a valid identity document and deposit. The Museums are accessible also to visitors on mobility scooters and with electric wheelchairs. However, due to space limitations, access or use are not permitted in some museum areas. In this case, the visitor will be invited to transfer to a traditional wheelchair, which may be hired free of charge in the entrance hall. Toilets specially equipped for the disabled are located along the itinerary and at all dining and refreshments points. To rapidly view the locations of washrooms, visitors are advised to consult the museum maps of theVatican. Most of the museum spaces are accessible to people with motor disabilities. To facilitate the visit, the Vatican Museums advise a big itinerary without barriers which, thanks to assistance from the Guard Corps, will enable visitors to easily reach the main services and places of interest. In order to overcome any barrier or discrimination in the enjoyment of the artistic and cultural heritage accessible to visitors, the Vatican Museums have for some time opened their doors to deaf and hard of hearing visitors, offering a free service of guided tours in Italian Sign Language (LIS). The tour, which offers three different itineraries, is guided by deaf educational workers selected by the Vatican Museums through an innovative professional training and employment project. For easier and more extensive access to their artistic patrimony, the Vatican Museums offer blind and partially sighted visitors a free service of tactile and multi-sensory tours. They are offered the opportunity to explore casts and a broad selection of sculptures and original works exposed in the Pinacoteca of the Vatican, the Gregoriano Profano Museum, the Gregorian Egyptian Museum and the Ethnological Museum.
- Adaptability: 1- Reduced mobility, 2- Deaf/hard of hearing, 3- Visually impaired
- Languaje Available: Local + English
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The museum is designed to be fully accessible to visitors with disabilities. The entrance for disabled visitors is located on Lungarno Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici 2; it is necessary to request the intervention of an operator through the intercom. Two lifts and two stairlifts provide wheelchair access to the floors (up to 325 kg). If necessary, there is a manual wheelchair available for visitors. On all floors of Palazzo Castellani there are equipped toilets.
- Adaptability: 1- Reduced mobility
- Languaje Available: Local + English
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A tactile path to give a deep and exciting visit experience even without the help of the view, inclusive and accessible to all visitors within the exhibition space of the museum. For people with autism there are specific paths. The main objectives are: access to a museum, facilitate the observation of the works, communicate and share what is seen, express their liking and their emotions, facilitate the memory of the experience, encourage a pleasant experience.
- Adaptability: 3- Visually impaired, 5- Learning difficulties
- Languaje Available: Local + English
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The Gipsoteca di Arte Antica and the Athenaeum Museum System all pursue a museum policy sensitive to the inclusion and enhancement of all audiences and design, implement and promote activities dedicated to people with disabilities. It is possible to book a guided tour of the Gipsoteca in LIS (Italian Sign Language). Social stories are short written stories that aim to develop the social understanding of children and young people with autism, with the purpose of helping them understand real-life situations, new or known, and react to them by behaving appropriately to their needs.
- Adaptability: 2- Deaf/hard of hearing, 5- Learning difficulties
- Languaje Available: Local + English
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The museum has legally reserved parking spaces for people with disabilities in the streets adjacent to the entrance. All museum spaces are accessible. Free loan of wheelchairs and strollers are available. On the ground floor, fire exits are accessible to wheelchairs. The museum has an elevator, equipped with braille numbering on the interior and exterior buttons. The restrooms on the ground floor (ticket area) are compliant for people with disabilities and are equipped with baby changing facilities. In the Permanent Collections there are multisensory cards with relief images of maps and a selection of GAM's works; through QRcodes it is possible to access audiodescription content in Italian, English and LIS - Italian Sign Language.
- Adaptability: 1- Reduced mobility, 2- Deaf/hard of hearing, 3- Visually impaired
- Languaje Available: Local + English
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The Museum for All Project includes tours, workshops and downloadable cards aimed at improving the reception of people with intellectual disabilities (children and adults) and their enjoyment of the Palace and Gardens. A model of the Reggia, Borgo and Gardens is available to the blind and visually impaired public, and it is possible to tactilely explore some of the works and some of the stucco parts of the route in the Reggia. The Gardens offer by their very nature a multisensory experience, enriched by the tactile exploration of Giuseppe Penone's works. Deaf visitors can also make reservations: -visit with LIS interpreter -visit with lip-reader guide The Reggia and the exhibition spaces designated for temporary exhibitions (Scuderie Juvarriane and Sale delle Arti) are barrier-free and allow independent access to people in wheelchairs and strollers.
- Adaptability: 1- Reduced mobility, 2- Deaf/hard of hearing, 3- Visually impaired, 5- Learning difficulties
- Languaje Available: Local + English
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The Education Department is engaged in several research projects to promote the accessibility of the Museum to all audiences. Collaboration with the Institute of the Deaf in Turin has resulted in the first experiment in Italy (and in the world) dedicated expressly to the encounter between the world of deafness and contemporary art. Since 2014, Castello di Rivoli has been the first contemporary art museum to entrust the conduction of activities in LIS to deaf professionals, after specific training as museum guides. There is also an active collaboration with the Italian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired, with whom a series of experimental multisensory visits to the Castle has been carried out.
- Adaptability: 2- Deaf/hard of hearing, 3- Visually impaired
- Languaje Available: Local + English
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The Egyptian Museum provides specific routes and workshops to meet special needs. The Museum provides 2 wheelchairs free of charge for its users. They can be picked up at the checkroom, but cannot be reserved. The Museum provides tactile tours accompanied by Egyptologists with specific experience. For safety reasons, the only animals allowed in the Museum are companion dogs for differently and able-bodied.
- Adaptability: 1- Reduced mobility, 3- Visually impaired
- Languaje Available: Local + English
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Deaf visitors will be able to visit the house museum with group tours, upon reservation, led by guides who are specially trained in LIS and hold a degree in the arts. Even those in wheelchairs will be guaranteed the experience in its entirety
- Adaptability: 1- Reduced mobility, 2- Deaf/hard of hearing
- Languaje Available: Local + English
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