MUSEUM FOR THE BLIND
Address
Basement of Sv.
Mykolas Arkangelas church.
Nepriklausomybes
a. 14, Kaunas.
Museum can be entered through the back entrance of the church.
Museum
hours
Museum is open during church
service hours, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Free entrance.
Exposition
In the frame of international
exchange project “Catacombs of 21st Century”, organized by the students of
Kaunas University of Technology (September 10-20, 2005), Lithuanian and
foreign students have created Museum for the Blind under supervision of
the sculptor, the National prize winner – Robertas
Antinis. The idea of this museum is the sensual experience and means of
its expression (such as hearing, smell, touch). Exposition “Catacombs of
21st Century” that evokes the spatial installation, includes 8 different
parts: passing, manhole, garden, first step, border, second step,
fragments, memory. Exposition is absolutely invisible; visitors can only
perceive it through sounds, smells and touching. According to R.
Antinis, visitors of this museum must work through hanging objects,
elastic stripes, spaces of sounds, smells and touching.
Visitor information is in Braille and in common writing.
Visitors who can see are also invited to conquer “Catacombs of 21st
Century”.
Museum was opened September 19, 2005 and will be open for the next three
years. This is the first museum for the blind in the Baltic States and one
of the first among museums of Eastern Europe.
