Massa Marittima Archeological Museum
The Archaeological Museum towards renewal. The first part of the works carried out at Massa Marittima museum was inaugurated yesterday afternoon. The openings of the works will lead to the total re-organization of the collection by the end of the year. The project carried out thanks to regional funds: the Municipality in 2016 had in fact obtained a loan of 17,000 euros from the Tuscany Region, arriving first among 48 applicants on the list among the accredited Museums for the call “Museums of quality at the service of visitors and local communities” .
A work that the Department of Culture of Massa has carried out in several steps: the first that ended in December, involved a work of revising the collection by a Scientific Committee, while the second, inaugurated yesterday, has having seen the installation of an audio guide of the museum in Italian and English on the IZI Travel platform (https://izi.travel/it/italia/guide-di-citta-in-toscana-massa-marittima) and the “talking” reproductions “Of two museum works aimed at creating adequate paths for blind visitors.
The third phase will instead be the one that will lead to the total re-organization of the Archaeological Museum collection. «In the first part of the project some areas never investigated before were studied for the first time, such as the Galli collection and the excavation material by Poggio Castiglione – said the Councilor for Culture Marco Paperini – today we present the unpublished research carried out on the museum collection and in the future we would like to re-use these two collections that are not exposed today to create a new and more complete set-up path».
From yesterday the museum also has two casts of two of the most important pieces in the collection: the stele of Vado all’Arancio and Eracle Callinico found at Poggio Castiglione. These are two casts made with Tooteko’s technology, the startup that transforms tactile models of works of art into talking models, making traditional places of art accessible to the blind.
Tooteko consists of three basic elements: an hi-tech ring, a tactile support equipped with NFC tags (proximity communication) and an application for tablets or smartphones. The hi-tech ring reads NFC tags and, thanks to the Tooteko App, communicates wirelessly with smartphone or tablet.
During the tactile navigation of the supports, when the finger reaches a recognizable hotspot thanks to a button with Braille coding, the ring identifies the NFC tag contained in it and activates the audio track relative to the point touched by means of the App.