“How ironic, I thought, that the sign for the Typological Museum would have a typo in it,” Chris, who writes about weird, offbeat destinations and life as a long-term traveller on his blog One Weird Globe, starts his article.
The Museum, located near Zagreb’s Sheraton Hotel, presents the world of the blind and visually impaired people and is adapted to their needs, so, unlike most museums, “everything that is reachable is touchable.”
The museum collects, stores, researches, documents and communicates tangible and non-tangible materials related to people with special needs, with an emphasis on people with visual impairment, so there are tactile strips leading you through the museum and labels on all exhibits are written in Braille. Their entire website is available in audio format here.
You can see quipu, or knotted ropes, that the Incas used to communicate, and some other languages which were used before Braille was invented, as well as artwork created by blind artists.
Read the blog post here.
You can visit the Typhlological Museum at:
Draškovićeva 80
Phone: 01 4811 102
Opening hours
Winter
Mon – Wed, + Friday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Sat – Sun: closed
Summer (June 1 – August 31)
Mon – Wed, + Friday: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Sat – Sun: closed
Admissions
Adults: 20 kn
Children, groups (more than 10), students: 15 kn
Persons with disabilities, retirees: free
Click here to access our guide through Zagreb for people with disabilities.
