Admission to the Museum is free for people with disabilities and their chaperon. Ticket costs may vary during temporary exhibitions.
The main entrance to the Museum can be accessed by individuals with physical disabilities. We also lend free wheelchairs.The entrance doors can be pulled opened manually. Emergency exits are also available: on the ground floor the emergency exits are accessible to the physically disabled.
The Museum also offers an elevator, with floor numbers in braille on all buttons.On the ground floor, visitors can access the multipurpose space thanks to a lift.Restrooms are equipped to accommodate visitors with disabilities.
MAO, attentive to issues relating to museum inclusion and accessibility, offers activities with tours and workshops for groups made up of the blind or partially sighted and visitors with mental disabilities.These activities are designed and led by the staff of the Museum’s Education Department, catering to the needs and specificities of each single group.
The design and realization of the Fondazione Torino Musei web sites followed the guidelines established by law no. 4, January 9, 2004, which determines regulations to favor access to computerized services on the part of the disabled.
In particular, indications regarding accessibility made available by the W3C have been followed.
MAO's new project, 'Finanziato dall'Unione Europea - NEXT Generation EU', aims to break up the pairing of accessibility and disability, eliminating the exclusion that has often derived from it, by offering a series of initiatives and technological, visual and tactile supports that create an opportunity to experience the museum through one's own capabilities, sensibilities, language, culture and point of view. Using a multisensory and multidisciplinary approach, MAO is offering a unique, convenient experience that is accessibile to everyone who wants to discover, in their own time and way, the stories and objects of one of Italy's biggest collections of Asian art.
In addition to the creation of the WebAPP, the museum has also planned by 2026 the inclusion of tactile maps and 3D models within the exhibition path, the placement of wayfindings that make the use of museum spaces more accessible, and the removal of all architectural barriers.
A mutilingual web app designed by the QZR studio and containing, among other things, critical texts edited by Laura Vigo, videos in sign language and audio descriptions of the most significant works produced by the Institute for the Deaf of Turin, is available in the museum. It proposes a variety of itineraries, organized by duration and theme, with in-depth audio and video contributions.
The WebApp was developed as a work in progress, to be constantly enriched with new itineraries and proposals that reflect the growth and changes of the museum itself.
Thanks to an approach that is both multi-sensory and multi-disciplinary, the App proposes a unique experience, accessible to anyone who wants to discover the museum, its stories and objects at their own pace: the contents and devices seek to expand the meaning of fruition, to transform the MAO and its permanent collections into a heritage that is truly for everyone.
Or go to the link: maoapp.maotorino.it
