Museo Omero in Ancona, founded by blind couple Aldo and Daniela Grassini in the early 1990s, is Italy's only publicly funded tactile museum, where visitors touch replicas including Roman and Greek statues and the head of Michelangelo's David. Since 2012 it has occupied the 3,000-square-meter Mole Vanvitelliana.
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El único museo público táctil de Italia invita a tocar el arte

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El Museo Omero en Ancona, fundado por la pareja ciega Aldo y Daniela Grassini a principios de los años noventa, es el único museo táctil de financiación pública en Italia que permite a los visitantes tocar réplicas de estatuas romanas y griegas, así como la cabeza del David de Miguel Ángel. Desde 2012 ocupa la Mole Vanvitelliana.

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