COLLECTIONS

COLLECTIONS

SPECIALLY DESIGNED HALLS

“Touch and Get to know” the Ancient Greek Culture

“Touch and Get to know” the Ancient Greek Culture

The specially designed period rooms/halls of the Tactual Museum are decorated by statues, vessels, figurines, sculptures, objects of everyday use, all identical copies of original artifacts displayed in other Greek and European museums, such as the National Archaeological Museum, the Acropolis Museum, the Archaeological Museum of Delphi, Olympia, Heraklion, the Museum of Cycladic Art, the Louvre Museum e.t.c.

ABOUT OUR COLLECTIONS

Touching the beauty

Touching the beauty

The displayed, free to touch exhibits, provide both sighted and visually impaired visitors with the ideal opportunity to get aware of the wide spectrum of the Ancient cultural creativity as they represent the Cycladic, Mycenaean, Geometric, Archaic, Strict Rhythm, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman Period. Visitors can experience through Touch the Venus of Milos, the Hermes of Praxiteles, the Charioteer at Delphi, the Volamandra Kouros, models of Acropolis (the sacred rock of Athens), the Theatre of Dionysus (on the south slope of the Acropolis) and many more. Additionally, the section with exhibits from the latest Greek history and Modern Sculpture give the visitor a chance of experiential contact with the up to now evolution of Greek Art and History. Apart from our extensive and still growing collection, there is the Byzantine-era section, consisting of a wood carved temple, Epitaphios, icons, a model of a Byzantine church and several other clerical objects.

Roukoutakis Collection

Roukoutakis Collection

Artifacts of visually impaired sculptors

Artifacts of visually impaired sculptors

Sculptures of the late Mister Roukoutakis Petros who founded the Ceramics and Sculpture Workshop of the Lighthouse for the Blind of Greece are housed in the Tactual Museum, along with other creations of the workshops participants.

Accessible information systems for All

Accessible information systems for All

Basic information and a vivid description displayed around each exhibit are offered:

  • for sighted visitors (printed signs)
  • for blind visitors (written in the Braille script)
  • and low-vision visitors (enlarged printing), so that everyone can have access even to the tiniest piece of information.
  • We have also created an automatic guided tour in Greek and English to provide our visitors with an alternative but equally convenient way of information.