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.
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: