organizers: Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County Association of the Blind
conceived by: Ivo Mileusnić
collaboration and promotion: Filmaktiv Association
Exhibition remains open until 25 September 2024

The exhibition – organized to mark the 75th anniversary of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County Association of the Blind –presents aids for the blind and visually impaired which the Association of the Blind donated to the Museum. Besides these aids, the exhibition also displays the handicrafts and artworks made by the Association’s members during the Creative Workshop led by Mirjana Marin, as well as works by artist Emil Mandarić, the Association’s president and long-time Museum collaborator.
The exhibition’s aim is to raise the public’s awareness of the needs of blind persons in everyday life and present the ways in which the blind can meet their everyday needs, educating themselves and participating in various aspects of social life with the help of aids. Today most of these aids have been replaced by the use of contemporary technologies on computers and smart phones, so the exhibited items constitute an intriguing part of the tiphlotechnical heritage.
The exhibited items serve as testimony about the users of these aids, the blind persons from our region whose life stories testify to the significance of the Association of the Blind for the past 75 years.