Attica
Athens Prefecture
Kallithea

Tactual Museum

The Tactual Museum of Athens is a museum for the visually impaired in , , . It was founded in 1984 by the Kallithea-based association Lighthouse for the Blind of Greece to allow visually impaired people to become familiarised with the cultural heritage of Greece.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum for the visually impaired in Kallithea, Athens, Greece.
  • Also known as: “Museum of Touch, Athens” and “Tactual Museum of Athens”
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center and Stavros Niarxos Culture Centre.

Hospital
The Onassio Cardiac Surgery Centre or simply Onassio is a model hospital, specialized in adult and pediatric heart diseases, and is a donation of the non-profit Alexander S. is situated 390 metres southwest of Tactual Museum.

Park
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center is a cultural center complex in the municipality of in , Greece. It includes new facilities for the and the Greek National Opera, as well as the 210,000 m2 Stavros Niarchos Park. is situated 790 metres southwest of Tactual Museum.

Photo: Jeanhousen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is the main public library of , located in . Founded by Ioannis Kapodistrias in 1832, its mission is to locate, collect, organize, describe and preserve the perpetual evidence of Greek culture and its uptake over time, as well as important representative evidence of human intellectual production. is situated 1 km southwest of Tactual Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kallithea and Nea Smyrni.

Suburb
Photo: Dimorsitanos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb in and a municipality in south Athens regional unit. It is the eighth largest municipality in Greece, as well as the fourth biggest in the Athens urban area.

Suburb
Photo: Badseed, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality and a town in South Athens, Greece. At the 2021 census, it had 72,853 inhabitants. It was named after the former Greek city Smyrna, whence many refugees arrived and settled in the area following the 1922 catastrophe…

Suburb
Photo: Pavlos1988, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town and a suburb in the southwestern part of the agglomeration, . Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality , of which it is the seat and a municipal unit.

Tactual Museum

Latitude
37.94546° or 37° 56′ 44″ north
Longitude
23.70002° or 23° 42′ 0″ east
Operator
Φάρος Τυφλών της Ελλάδος
Open location code
8G95WPW2+52
Open­Street­Map ID
way 302592510
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q7674145
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In Other Languages

“Tactual Museum” goes by many names.
  • Greek: “Μουσείο Αφής Αθήνας”
  • Greek: “Μουσείο Αφής”

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Highlights include ΔΟΥ Νέας Σμύρνης and Πάρκο Εθελοντών Αιμοδοτών.

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