For All

Un museo per tutti

Since its opening to public in 2001, Explora has pursued an objective: to become a benchmark for families, schools, boys and girls capable of offering an opportunity to play, experiment and learn in the field.

Explora’s goal is to focus on boys and girls and their potential through occasions for socialisation and education; it also promotes the development of their cognitive and emotional skills.
Explora has always promoted transversal activities, respecting each individuality; today, through a dedicated project, it finds strategies and developments to achieve a new and more inclusive and accessible form.

Works

The project, aiming at acknowledging and valuing the specific needs of users, allows to remove physical, cognitive and sensory barriers, improving accessibility for boys, girls, families and schools to the Museum.

The dedicated works focus on improving the experience of users both on the physical and digital levels.
Sustainable works: all modernisation works of the museum’s facilities comply with the “Do No Significant Harm” (DNSH) criteria, which provides that works in the museums within the domestic PNRR should not cause significant harm to the environment. The modernisation process includes the following:

• • a free-access green area which includes safety surfacing, inclusive games and new signage;
• • Increasing from 1 to 2 parking spaces reserved for disabled placard vehicles and improved accessibility to make it easier for limited mobility persons to enter the playground;
• • toilet facilities accessible to all in the exhibit pavilion,
• replacing the information desk to welcome visitors;
• replacing the reception and ticket office desk to make it more accessible to impaired mobility, hearing, sight disability persons and minors;
  • installing an access ramp for wheelchairs and pushchairs;
• inclusive, accessible direction signs;
• • accessible official website and improving the online ticket sales process;
• • innovative and digital communication to make at least 60 exhibits more available, resulting from design and development of video and audio contents through QR Code, with Braille maps and LIS language;
• • training for internal staff charged with receiving visitors focused on disabilities and inclusion.

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Progetto
Atto d’obbligo
Cronoprogramma

Accessibility project
The chance to improve accessibility comes with the Public Notice for projects intended to remove physical, cognitive and sensory barriers in museums and private places of culture, to be funded within the PNRR – Investment 1.2 “Removing physical, cognitive and sensory barriers in museums, libraries and archives to broaden access to and participation in culture” funded by the European Union, NextGenerationEU, which allows Explora to become a museum “for all”.

The Icom definition includes all aspects that make Explora’s changes in favour of a more inclusive and diversified experience fundamental: “A museum is a not-for-profit, permanent institution in the service of society, that researches, collects, conserves, interprets and exhibits tangible and intangible heritage. Open to the public, accessible and inclusive, museums foster diversity and sustainability. They operate and communicate ethically, professionally and with the participation of communities, offering varied experiences for education, enjoyment, reflection and knowledge sharing ” definition of Icom Musem, Prague, August 24th, 2022.
The very Goal 4 of the Sustainable Development Agenda, reiterates the importance to “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”.

• Acknowledging a Museum as a place of interaction, training and education, it is increasingly necessary to redesign spaces and activities with innovation and new technologies.