# Typhlological Museum Zagreb

Zagreb Typhlological Museum

The Typhlological Museum is special in many ways, so we will present it below and provide you with important information that may interest you and "invite" you to visit.

This Museum is one of the few special museums in Europe. The Typhlological Museum deals with the problems of people with disabilities, especially visually impaired people.

The museum's new permanent exhibition opened to the public in January 2008. Together with the expert staff of the museum, today we can invite the public to come to such a unique institution.

The mission of the museum

The Typhlological Museum is a public state institution that collects, preserves, studies, documents and communicates material and intangible material related to persons with disabilities. The focus is on visually impaired people.

Through its activities, the Typhlological Museum seeks to introduce the social community to the world of visually impaired people. In this way, we want to highlight the problems that people with disabilities face on a daily basis, and to encourage harmonious and tolerant relationships between people. Our mission is to encourage mutual respect for each person. In addition to the museum's expert staff, we invite all interested persons with disabilities to become actively involved in its activities.

Museum collections:

Special Education and Rehabilitation Collection - A collection of items related to specific areas of education, rehabilitation and daily life for people with disabilities, especially visually impaired people.

Collection of printed matter on relief letters

Donation by Wagner

Fine Art Collection - In addition to paintings and certain sculptures by more or less well-known sculptors, one large part of this Collection is made up of self-taught blind sculptors.

Ophthalmic Collection - The ophthalmic collection is made up of ophthalmic-optical devices and diagnostic aids from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These items were once part of the eye clinic inventory.

Photo Collection - This collection contains and documents photographs related to the daily life of visually impaired people.

Archives Collection - The primary task of this collection is the systematic collection, protection, professional processing and museological presentation of archives of various contents in the field of care history for the visually impaired and the blind and their upbringing and education.

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