Musei Toscani per l'Alzheimer

Without barriers

During the last years, many museums in Italy developped specific itineraries for people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia and their carers. Musei Toscani per l’Alzheimer is a project involving various Tuscan museums offering special activities.

Museum operators, healthcare professionals operating in nursing homes and geriatric staff were trained to become cultural operators with specific competences and let people with such a disability discover the pleasure of art and museums.

In Florence, these are the museums participating to the project Musei Toscani per l’Alzheimer: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, i Musei Civici Fiorentini / Associazione MUS.E, Museo Casa Rodolfo Siviero, Museo di Storia Naturale, Museo e Istituto Fiorentino di Preistoria "Paolo Graziosi" and Museo Marino Marini. Moreover, in the surroundings of Florence, visits are also available at BeGo, Museo Benozzo Gozzoli in Castelfiorentino and MuDEV, Museo diffuso dell’Empolese Valdelsa.

Discover all the details and reserve a tour/workshop in the websites mentioned below. Notice! Most the activities may be in Italian.

Quick info

Municipalities

Capraia e Limite

Castelfiorentino

Cerreto Guidi

Certaldo

Empoli

Firenze

Fucecchio

Gambassi Terme

Montaione

Montelupo Fiorentino

Montespertoli

Vinci

Useful informations

Accessibility

accessible

Stages

The places

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Stages

Palazzo Strozzi

The project for people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and their carers is named "With Many Voices" and offers these people the opportunity to express themselves through art, proposing a model for communication that is still possible. Fondazione’s Education Department in partnership with expert geriatric educators hold these workshops.

Piazza degli Strozzi, 50123 Firenze FI, Italy

https://www.palazzostrozzi.org/en/

Musei Civici Fiorentini - Associazione Mus.e

Florentine Civic Museums and Mus.e Association develop activities to facilitate access to museums for people with Alzheimer, their families and professional carers. Palazzo Vecchio, Museo Novecento, Santa Maria Novella, Museo Bardini, Forte Belvedere and Museo Bartali welcome older people with dementia and help them to observe, remember and express their emotions.

Piazza della Signoria, 50122 Firenze FI, Italy

http://musefirenze.it/en/

Museo Casa Siviero

The project named “At Casa Siviero” has been designed for people with dementia and their caregivers and includes special activities focused on their needs.

Lungarno Serristori, 1, 50125 Firenze FI, Italy

http://www.museocasasiviero.it/ww4_siviero/casasiviero.page?country=ENG

Musei di Storia Naturale

The project includes the museums of Geology and Paleontology, Anthropology and Ethnology and the Botanical Garden and is intended to expand accessible services for individuals with dementia and facilitate their entertainment, socialization and expression of abilities.

Via Giorgio la Pira, 4, 50121 Firenze FI, Italy

https://www.sma.unifi.it/ls-13-natural-history-museum.html

Museo Fiorentino di preistoria Paolo Graziosi

Museo Fiorentino di Preistoria in partnership with a geriatric nurse educator offer a series of multisensory workshops for people with Alzheimer's and senile dementia as well as for those who are caretakers. The fascination of the archaeological find and the multi-sensory programs, above all the hands-on activities, help to pleasantly live in the “here and now”, rediscovering a present, active and communicative body.

Via dell' Oriuolo, 24, 50122 Firenze FI, Italy

https://www.museofiorentinopreistoria.it/en/social-archeology/universal-accessibility

Museo Marino Marini

The program dedicated to people with Alzheimer's and their carers aims to foster relationships among participants, focusing on the emotional and communicative power of art; to propose to these people enjoyable, stimulating and appropriate activities; to allow them to remain as long as possible integrated in the community’s cultural life.

Piazza di S. Pancrazio, 50123 Firenze FI, Italy

https://museomarinomarini.it/en/accessibility/

BeGo Benozzo Gozzoli

The project sets out to promote and support the participation of fragile people at risk of social exclusion in museum activities, and to promote new strategies and tools for presenting the museum heritage to elderly people affected by dementia.

Via Agostino Testaferrata, 31, 50051 Castelfiorentino FI, Italy

http://www.museobenozzogozzoli.it/en/musei-per-l-alzheimer.html

Musei dell'Empolese Valdelsa

The Museums of Empolese Valdelsa participate to the experimentation of new communicative approaches and relationships between people suffering from dementia and the cultural institutions of our community. Activities, workshops and experiences are regularly organized to make art accessible to all and facilitate their socialization and expression of abilities. Please, explore all the museums network on the official Website.

Piazza Vittorio Veneto, 11, 50056 Montelupo Fiorentino FI, Italy

https://www.museiempolesevaldelsa.it/en/musei-per-lalzheimer/