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    Sensory Museums for the Family

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    Sensory museums, also known as multisensory museums, are designed to engage multiple senses, providing a rich and inclusive experience for all visitors, including those with disabilities. Here are some notable sensory museums and sensory-focused exhibits around the world:

    Museum of Senses – Various Locations
    Locations: Bucharest (Romania), Prague (Czech Republic)
    Highlights: Interactive exhibits designed to challenge perception and stimulate the senses of sight, sound, smell, and touch.

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    2. Dialogue in the Dark – Worldwide
    • Concept: Visitors experience daily life in complete darkness, led by blind guides.
    • Highlights: This experience shifts focus from visual stimuli to sounds, smells, textures, and tastes, promoting awareness and empathy for the visually impaired.
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      Color Factory NYC – Manhattan, NY, USA
      1. Concept:  14 immersive art exhibits as stunning as they are colorful. Fun for all ages, each colorful room is designed in partnership with local and international artists and collaborators.
    2. Highlights:  Funfetti room and ball pit 
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    4. SENSORY Labs – San Francisco, USA
    • Location: Exploratorium
    • Highlights: A space within the Exploratorium dedicated to exploring sensory perception, offering hands-on activities that engage all the senses.
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    2. Musée de l’Invisible – Paris, France
    • Location: Palais de la Découverte
    • Highlights: An exhibit where visitors use touch, sound, and smell to navigate and understand the environment, often in complete darkness.
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    2. Sensorium 360 – Singapore
    • Location: The ArtScience Museum
    • Highlights: Offers interactive exhibits that engage multiple senses, including touch, sound, and smell, often with a technological twist.
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    2. Museum of Feelings – New York City, USA
    • Highlights: An immersive pop-up museum where rooms are designed to reflect and evoke different emotions through sensory experiences, including scent, light, and sound.
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    2. Tactual Museum – Athens, Greece 
    3. Highlights: Focuses on tactile experiences, allowing visitors, especially the visually impaired, to explore replicas of famous sculptures and artifacts by touch.
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    2. Museum of the Senses – Prague, Czech Republic
    • Highlights: Offers various interactive exhibits that engage sight, sound, touch, and smell, designed to challenge and delight visitors of all ages.
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    2. Sensory Room at the Science Museum – London, UK
    • Highlights: A dedicated sensory room designed for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and other sensory processing disorders, providing a calming and engaging environment with interactive exhibits.
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    2. Il Museo Tattile Statale Omero – Ancona, Italy
    • Highlights: One of Italy’s few tactile museums, where visitors, especially those with visual impairments, can touch and feel sculptures and artworks.
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    2. Museum of Illusions – Hamburg, Germany
    • Highlights: A museum offering various interactive exhibits that engage touch, sight, and sound.

     

    These sensory museums and exhibits emphasize inclusivity, making art and science accessible and enjoyable for everyone by engaging multiple senses and offering unique, immersive experiences.