Blind Museum (Hanover)
The Blind Museum in Hanover is a special museum in the capital of Lower Saxony . The museum, which opened in 1995, is located in the school building of the State Education Center for the Blind , which was built between 1912 and 1914, at Bleekstraße 22. In Germany, there is only a museum of this type in Berlin.
description
Over 6,000 exhibits are presented. They are intended to give an impression of how the blind education was carried out from 1843 until today and what it means to lead a life in blindness . On display are teaching aids as well as everyday aids for the blind and information on Braille . In the museum for the blind, visitors can see or feel: relief representations in models, globes and atlases for teaching; Writing and reading devices, some old, some ultra-modern; old textbooks in different printing (line printing, bar type printing, pearl printing); Geometry boxes for teaching the blind; Automatic typing machines with connected braille output and electronic reading devices that make cursive writing tangible with the sense of touch; Household appliances, long sticks and much more. With these exhibits, the Hanover Blind Museum is unique in Germany.
history
There has been a school for the blind in Hanover since 1845. At that time it was called "Asylum for the Blind" - more precisely: "Royal Asylum for the Blind". It bore this name until 1866, because the " Kingdom of Hanover " existed until that year . In 1995 the museum for the blind was redesigned on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the “State Education Center for the Blind”.
See also
- Prussian Royal Institute for the Blind, Berlin
- Dialog Museum Frankfurt am Main, a " museum for the blind"
- Dialogue in the Dark Hamburg
Web links
- State Education Center for the Blind - Museum ( Memento from June 10, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
- Blind Museum Hannover - State Education Center for the Blind
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eckart Roloff and Karin Henke-Wendt: Insights into the world of the blind. (Das Blindenmuseum Hannover) In: Visit your doctor or pharmacist. A tour through Germany's museums for medicine and pharmacy. Volume 1, Northern Germany. Verlag S. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2015, pp. 87-88, ISBN 978-3-7776-2510-2
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '44.9 " N , 9 ° 48' 17.4" E