The work on the creation of an audio guide for the blind and visually impaired is completed in the Nizhny Novgorod Technical Museum (a branch of the Nizhny Novgorod State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve), the press service of the governor and the Government of the Nizhny Novgorod region reports.
The Ministry of Culture of the Nizhny Novgorod Region and the Nizhny Novgorod Central Special Library for Blind, with the support of the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Center for the Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities, acted as the preparation of special audio socketsia.
"We are all accustomed to the fact that the exhibits in museums can not be touched by their hands, which means that for the blind people, visiting exhibitions becomes almost inaccessible. The uniqueness of the technical museum is that its exhibits can be studied tactile. Including, therefore, he became an ideal site for creating an audio guide, "Vyacheslav Hurtin shared the Director of the Technical Museum.The preparation of the audio guide was divided into several stages. First, with the help of the "Camerats" experts, the exhibits were selected for tactile studies, according to which the Specialist of the Technical Museum, Ivan Bogomolov, has prepared a text version of the excursion. The next step will be the entry of texts in a special sound format in the studio of the Nizhny Novgorod Music School. M. A. Balakirev. Moreover, the excursion will be recorded separately for children and for adults: the children's version will be announced by the pupil of the theater studio "Operation" 10-year-old Elisha Ligai, and the adult is a teacher in the scenic speech of the Nizhny Novgorod theater School. E. A. Evstigneeva Olesya Eidelstein. The full version of the audio guide will be recorded: for its sounding, students of the second year of the theater school of the department "Actor of Drama Theater and Cinema" Ilya Providokhina and Daria Roznov will be invited.
"Now we are with the library for the blind, we make the first serious joint steps. And it is very cool that they lead us to interdepartmental interaction. The audio guide has become a product of the library and the Technical Museum, this example showed very brightly that, uniting, we can make significant and socially important projects of a fundamentally new level. We have all the resources and opportunities for this, "the Deputy Minister of Culture of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Elena Lupina told.Work on the creation of audio accounts for blind and visually impaired is planned to be completed by March 8, when the audiogides are solemnly awarded the technical museum. On this day, the first test tour will be held at the museum, and the guys from the Theater Studio "Operation" will be shown on the works of A. P. Chekhov "Tears, dreams and curiosities".
Creating an audio guide will become a significant project in terms of an increase in the comfort of the urban environment for people with disabilities.