Tudor SĂLĂGEAN
Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei
Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography, a representative institution of the Romanian museology, has already built a solid reputation in the field of programs and adaptations addressed to people with disabilities. The most significant achievement in this field was the opening in 2009 of the first permanent tactile exhibition, which become a landmark for the Romanian museology. Participation of the museum, in partnership with the department of Special Psychopedagogy of the Babes Bolyai University, at the project Bridging the Gap between Museums and Visually Impaired Persons (BaGMIVI), founded under the Erasmus+ Program, has led to a significant increase in skills in this fiels, as well as to a significant improvement of the interna land international with institutions and specialists in the area of the project. Moreover, this project was carried aut in parallel with the master planning activity for the museum’s outdoor section, the National Ethnographic Park Romulus Vuia, a museum sector in which are carried out new accesibility projects, in order to offer a better response to the needs of people with visual impairments.
Keywords: museums, open air museums, visually impaired persons, accesibility, master planning
