site.btaDobrich History Museum Partners with Italy, Spain, Cyprus to Help Visually Impaired

The History Museum in Dobrich encourages visually impaired persons to experience cultural valuables as part of an initiative under an Erasmus+ programme. In partnership with institutions in Bari, Spain and Cyprus, the Bulgarian museum takes the visually impaired on specialized tourist routes where they get acquainted with cultural valuables by building a mental puzzle through sound, touch, smell, and taste.

The guides on the tourist routes have been trained to use the Peraltravia – Anotherway method of Italian psychologist Francesco Piccolo, project leader Dessislava Hristova from the History Museum explained. The routes in Dobrich have been tested by visually impaired volunteers and pupils from the local professional high school of tourism. 

The visually impaired tourists will hear part of the radio play on Bulgarian literature classic "Albena" in the Yordan Yovkov House Memorial, and will play the ocarina and touch items used in bread-making at the Old Dobrich Ethnographic Complex.