Blindenmuseum Hannover
Museum on the history of education for the blind at the State Education Centre for the Blind in Hanover, with around 6,000 exhibits.
Have only individual sections read aloud
About the museum
Hanover has had a school for the blind since 1845; it was founded as the Royal Institution for the Blind of the then Kingdom of Hanover and is today the State Education Centre for the Blind. Its school building on Bleekstraße was built between 1912 and 1914. For the institution's 150th anniversary, the museum for the blind was set up there, or redesigned, in 1995.
The collection comprises around 6,000 objects and shows how blind people have been taught since the mid-19th century and how they manage their everyday lives. It includes relief models, tactile globes and atlases, old textbooks in various embossed printing methods, geometry boxes, writing and reading devices ranging from historical braille typewriters to electronic reading aids, as well as household appliances and white canes. A memorial plaque commemorates the Jewish pupil Irmgard Weinberg, whose trail disappears in 1939. There are only a few museums of this kind in Germany; the Deutsches Blinden-Museum in Berlin is comparable.
Highlights
- Around 6,000 exhibits on the education of the blind since the 19th century
- Historical and modern writing and reading devices for braille
- Tactile relief models, globes and atlases
- Old textbooks in different embossed printing methods
- Founded
- 1995
- Operated by
- Landesbildungszentrum für Blinde Hannover
Admission & discounts
Admission is free.
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