The ‘Inclusive Museums!’ network renders culture throughout Bavaria accessible in comfort and without obstacles. It consists of just under 15 museums which are dedicated to many different topics. The range of inclusionary amenities includes audio guides for families, tactile audio stations and brochures, wheelchair rental and tours in sign language. Accessible and inclusionary! Your customers can find out about all these amenities online at museen-inklusive.bayern/de/museen (So far only available in German).
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Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm
Art museum, children’s museum and adventure areas which create completely new perspectives: this museum, named after the artist and college professor Edwin Scharff, born in Neu-Ulm in 1887, has many facets. Scharff was among the most eminent sculptors of the first half of the 20th century, and the museum provides an overview of his oeuvre.
Your customers can also look forward to the estate of the artist Ernst Geitlinger (1895-1972), with many works of abstract art. There is also a special museum for children, with changing interactive exhibitions that invite them to join in, touch things and try things out. People with impairments are also thoroughly welcome. For them, this inclusionary museum has tactile maps and brochures, a booklet in simple language and various audio guides.
Edwin Scharff Museum
Tel.: +49 731 7050-2555
E-Mail: esm@neu-ulm.de
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Franconian open-air museum, Bad Windsheim
A paradise from ancient times: the Franconian open-air museum in Bad Windsheim shows its visitors what life used to be like in rural Franconia. On a large plot with gardens, fields, orchards and livestock, there are more than 100 original buildings from the last 700 years – including historical farms, breweries, inns and mills, sheep farms and handicraft houses.
The inclusionary amenities offered by the open-air museum include exhibitions, which can be understood and experienced by your customers with all their senses, and also audio guides, information in braille, a booklet in simple language, a video in sign language, films, sample audios and hands-on programmes that also appeal to children and families.
Franconian open-air museum
Tel.: +49 9841 6680-0
E-Mail: info@freilandmuseum.de
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Museum in the culture loft
The former granary at the old harbour has been converted into an art museum which has very few barriers. Today, it is home to two completely different collections. One of them is devoted to concrete art and its geometrical shapes and colours, and is the largest private collection of its kind in Europe. The other – the municipal collection – exhibits paintings and sculptures by artists from the region in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. During the conversion of the old storehouse with its floor-level guidance system and a lift for the visitors, tactile models of two paintings, three sculptures and a drawing were also created. There is an app that takes visitors through the museum, and information in simple language is available too.
Museum in the culture loft
Tel.: +49 931 3 22 25-0
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Glentleiten Open Air Museum
The whole of Upper Bavaria in one place – and what a place it is! The Glentleiten open-air museum stretches over a large area with meadows and woods above the Kochelsee at an altitude of 750 metres. Just under 70 historical buildings have been rebuilt in the original with their furnishings in this picture-book landscape. They provide insights into the rural everyday life of the people of Upper Bavaria in times past. Traditional livestock breeds and old species of fruit and vegetables also form part of the ‘collection’ at this museum. Because the museum is on a slope, your customers can rent wheelchairs with an electric pushing aid. Other inclusionary amenities include audio stations and tactile objects, guided tours with a sign language interpreter and explanations in simple language.
Open-air museum Glentleiten
Tel.: +49 8851 185-0
E-Mail: freilichtmuseum@glentleiten.de
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Museum of art, Bayreuth
The art of the modern age and the 21st century in the old baroque town hall: the location of the Bayreuth Museum of Art is every bit as fascinating as its exhibits. The latter include works from various different art movements: expressionism, constructivism, surrealism and action art. To give everyone a chance to come and appreciate this, there is an information post in the entrance area of the museum with spoken texts, words in braille, tactile images, videos of a sign language interpreter and sample images. The amenities available to your customers also include the so-called green dwarf, a wheeled trolley with explanatory material that users can push along while also using it to steady themselves.
Museum of art Bayreuth
Tel.: +49 921 76453-10
E-Mail: info@kunstmuseum-bayreuth.de
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Celts-and-Romans Museum, Manching
Ancient cultures presented in a modern atmosphere: first the Celts, then the Romans – as from the 4th century B. C. – settled in Manching, as some spectacular finds in the Celts-and-Romans Museum reveal. The Celts department provides evidence of the immense wealth in the cultural heyday of Manching in the Iron Age – for example magnificent glass jewellery and a unique Kultbäumchen (sacred miniature tree). The Romans department provides exciting insights into life in a Roman military camp and the civilian settlement that went with it.
The highlights here are two patrol boats which are thought to be the best preserved Roman military vessels north of the Alps. One way to experience this modern museum building is in a wheelchair. People with visual impairments also have easy access, so that they can visit the museum without taking part in a guided tour if accompanied by a seeing person and equipped with a special museum case. Tactile tours and guided tours in sign language can be booked too.
Celts-and-Romans Museum, Manching
Tel.: +49 8459 32373-0
E-Mail: info@museum-manching.de