In every museum in the world it is forbidden to touch, in this museum it is not. Why? Because knowing through touch is also an extraordinary opportunity to understand the world, art, and design for everyone who can see, who can visit blindfolded, and it is a way to allow people who cannot see to know through their hands what everyone else knows through their eyes.
This museum is home to a collection of wooden tactile models that-as if they were a three-dimensional encyclopedia to be leafed through with the hands-reproduce aspects of landscape, architecture, from art, archaeology, and design.
With a visit to the Varese Tactile Museum, one has the opportunity to verify how tactile models have a dual function: didactic and emotional: knowing through touch one discovers a new world.
In addition to the models, the museum hosts multisensory paths and installations, capable of reconciling fun with an interest in experimentation. These are paths in which the visitor has the opportunity to verify, while having fun, how the senses speak a special language capable of giving us a better and deeper understanding of all aspects of reality.
The world becomes a kaleidoscope of possibilities, which here asks to be “listened to” with all the senses: fun aspects and new forms of knowledge of reality, monuments and tactile games, sensory emotions and art, didactics and experimentation.
