Blind Museum (Hanover)

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It's winter, the square in front of the school building and the flat, circular fountain are covered with snow, the deciduous trees in front of the museum are bare. In front of us is a three-story, symmetrical building with a sand-yellow facade and a red hipped roof. A part of the building three windows wide juts out in the middle. Below there is a short staircase leading to the entrance door, painted blue, above which a lantern illuminates the steps. On the roof above this part of the building, the outer wall is extended by a further floor upwards and crowned by a separate, smaller hipped roof (so-called "Zwerchhaus"). This highest part of the facade ends in a flat arch, under which a large clock can be seen above a ribbon of windows. This is surrounded on the right and left by decorative ornaments (white on a yellow background). An octagonal turret with a flagpole sits enthroned on the ridge of the dwelling.
The museum for the blind is located in the building of the state education center for the blind

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

A memorial plaque made of dusky pink, polished stone, maybe granite. It bears the text in black Gothic script: “We remember the Jewish pupil Irmgard Weinberg, b. on January 16, 1911. She attended our school from 1926 to 1927. Her trace is lost in 1939. "
Memorial plaque in the blind museum for the Jewish student Irmgard Weinberg , whose trace was lost in 1939

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”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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