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Russian Museum creates app for visitors with hearing loss

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Russian Museum creates app for visitors with hearing loss


13.04.2017

The Russian Museum The State Russian Museum kicks off the initiative to create Do You Hear? mobile application. Amplified Tour for persons with hearing difficulties is going to be developed for the Saint Petersburg museum, TASS informs.

After this app is issued, people with hearing problems will be able to engage in all nuances of Russain Museum's expositions. According to director of the museum Vladimir Gusev, museum's collections are located in historical buildings, and there are no resources to accomodate new technologies. Nevertheless, all possible innovations are applied, Gusev assures. Videoguide is one of the priorities of the Russian Museum today.

Russian Society of the Deaf, social and cultural experts actively participate in this project. The future mobile app is actively supported by social organisations, public figures, actors and all those who are interested in art accessibility to a wide public.

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