Video
Museo Omero: a model of accessibility
Aldo Grassini, President of the Museo Omero, talks about the uniqueness of the Museum, its international collaborations and what it can export.
The video opens with a view of the earth from space. The camera zooms in to show Ancona and the Mole Vanvitelliana, that houses the Museo Omero. Aldo Grassini's presentation is accompanied by a series of images of the collection, people exploring our sculptures, architectural models and design objects, photos of our international collaborations as well as of the typhlo-didactic workshop where relief reproductions of paintings and tactile books are made.
The video closes with the Museum logo, titles and credits. Its accessible version is realized with the collaboration of Rai Pubblica Utilità.
IS Interpreter: Davy Mariotti.
The founders
Aldo Grassini and Daniela Bottegoni talk about the Museo Omero: its beginnings, its mission, its protagonists, its activities, its future. The video shows images of Aldo and Daniela in the Museum rooms and some archive photos.
The video opens and closes with the Museum logo and the titles and credits.
Collection Design
Short video created by Fabio Fornasari for the Adi Design Museum.
Reading works of art by touch
Andrea Socrati, the Museo Omero's accessibility manager, explains how to use your hands to read various kinds of sculpture: true copies, bas-reliefs and original works.
The video opens and closes with the Museum logo, titles and credits.
Its accessible version is realized with the collaboration of Rai Pubblica Utilità.
IS Interpreter: Davy Mariotti.
Reading architectural models by touch
Aldo Grassini, President of the Museo Omero, explains how to read an architectural model while he explores the wooden volumetric model of Florence Cathedral and the architectural model of a section of its famous dome, with his hands.
The video opens and closes with the Museum logo, titles and credits. Its accessible version is realized with the collaboration of Rai Pubblica Utilità.
IS Interpreter: Davy Mariotti.
The Museo Omero’s “Tactile books” workshop
The video presents some of the Museum's tactile books and shows how they are created.
The narrator is Maria Giulia Mengarelli of the Museum's Learning Department.
The video opens and closes with the Museum logo, titles and credits. Its accessible version is realized with the collaboration of Rai Pubblica Utilità.
IS Interpreter: Davy Mariotti.
The Museo Omero’s tactile books
The video presents some of the Museum's tactile books and shows how they are created.
The narrator is Maria Giulia Mengarelli of the Museum’s Learning Department.
The video opens and closes with the Museum logo and the titles and credits.
Typhlo-didactic services
Andrea Socrati, our accessibility expert, is shown in the Museum rooms as he illustrates the services offered by the Museum. He explains how the special aids for people with visual disabilities are created for the museum itineraries and elsewhere. The video then shows Massimiliano Trubbiani in our typhlo-didactic workshop where he can be seen modelling plasticine to make a three-dimensional version of a painting, and creating a relief drawing with the help of an infrared oven.
The video opens and closes with the Museum logo and the titles and credits.
Its accessible version is realized with the collaboration of Rai Pubblica Utilità.
IS Interpreter: Davy Mariotti.