An exhibition mounted at the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History, a ceramic workshop and several films became accessible to persons with hearing and visual impairments in the framework of a project implemented in June-December 2020.

Victor Koroli, executive director of “Infonet” Alliance that presented the results of the project on December 29, has told IPN that an exhibition centering on “Nature” that was staged at the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History was made accessible to these persons. The information about Moldova’s steppes, fens and forests was interpreted in sign language. For persons with visual impairments, the text was sonorized in Romanian, Russian, French and English.

Any visitor of the museum will be able to scan with the mobile phone the QR code that is available in the exhibition hall and will this way access information about the exhibition in sign language or the audio file in four languages, noted Victor Koroli.

As part of the same project, there was held a ceramic workshop that was also interpreted in sign language and sonorized.

According to Victor Koroli, for the implementation of this project, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research allocated 162,000 lei.

Within a similar project financed by a Polish NGO, an animated cartoon about a deported person, the films “Maria Mirabela”, in Romanian and Russian, “Dimitrie Cantemir”, in Romanian and Russian, an ethnographic film about Călărași and a Georgian film were sonorized.

In Moldova, there are about 5,000 persons with hearing impairments and approximately 15,000 persons with visual impairments.