- The Museum has a large, spacious lift leading to the exhibition and special toilet
- The ramps installed in the exhibition rooms can be used by persons with movement disabilities, mothers with babies, etc.
- The Museum offers a few dozen copies of the "Touch culture" guidebook for persons with sight loss and impairment. The guidebook contains unique tangible illustrations of selected objects from the Museum's collection, with the possibility to borrow it out of charge. The digital version of the guidebook for persons with sight impairment is available on the webpage www.dotknijkultury.pl
- Possibility to touch selected exhibits
- Possibility to organize museum classes with a guide for students with and without disabilities (educational models for persons with sight loss are available: tangible wooden bricks presenting King Kasimir the Great and a replica of Queen Hedwig's scepter)
- The Museum's employees have been trained by the JU Disability Support Service in proper care over persons with different types of disability: they have learned rules and techniques for assisting a person using wheelchair, and taught to guide persons with sight loss. All employees are familiar with correct disability vocabulary.
- The museum cafeteria "U Pęcherza" offers Braille menus
- For additional support for disabled persons please contact the Museum.
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Accessibility in the Jagiellonian University Museum for persons with sight impairment
In addition to standard tours of the permanent exhibition, the Museum offers workshops which can be attended by prior reservation. Meetings take place around a selected work of art from our collection, prepared for visitors with blindness and other sight impairments within the framework of the project Touch Culture, which was developed in collaboration between the Jagiellonian University Museum and the Jagiellonian University Department for Persons with Disabilities. The first edition of the project took place in 2012. The aim of the event is to enable persons with blindness and other sight impairments to take advantage of the growing offer of the Museum, to raise public awareness of disabilities, and to create a natural space for dialogue and integration in the area of culture.
The first edition of the event saw the promotion of a guidebook to the Jagiellonian University Museum for the blind and visually impaired (version in Braille and with enlarged font). In addition to graphic descriptions of the halls and exhibits, it also contains tactile illustrations of selected museum exhibits. The use of a dual form of communication, text and image, was the first of its kind in Kraków's museums. Presently, visitors can use the guides on site or borrow them to take home, and since 2013 the publication has been available on the Touch Culture website.
Each annual event includes the promotion of a new contextual audiodescription and tactile adaptation of a selected work from the collection of the Jagiellonian University Museum, as well as a joint tour of the museum, during which persons with blindness get to know selected exhibits through touch. It concludes with an open concert in the courtyard of Collegium Maius (entrance upon presentation of a free pass). During the previous editions, the list of guest artists included: Piwnica Św. Norberta, Tomasz Stańko, Dominik Wania, Loch Camelot, Kuba Stankiewicz, Janusz Muniak, Lora Szafran, Aga Zarian with Michał Tokay, Stanisław Soyka and Grzegorz Dowgiałła.
In 2013, the Jagiellonian University Museum and the JU Department for Persons with Disabilities organised, in collaboration with the Jagiellonian University Promotion Office, the exhibition Touch a Painting. Malczewski —Szymborska—Antoniszczak (14 October–6 December 2013). The exhibition was awarded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as part of the annual Sybil 2013 competition.
All existing materials from subsequent editions of Touch Culture, as well as from the aforementioned exhibition, are available as part of museum workshops and for downloading on the Touch Culture website. Tactile materials are also used when visiting the Museum (when booking a visit to the Collegium Maius, a request should be made in advance for adaptations to be available during the tour).
Below is a list of monuments for which context-sensitive audiodescription and tactile adaptations have been created:
- Jacek Malczewski, Rusałki (a series of five paintings), Kraków 1887 r., olej na płótnie - warsztaty
- Nagroda Nobla Wisławy Szymborskiej, medal
- Eugeniusz Delacroix, Duch ojca, Francja 1845 r., olej na płótnie- warsztaty
- Tadeusz Błotnicki, Pamiatkowa plakieta na Jubileusz Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego z wizerunkiem królowej Jadwigi i Władysława Jagiełły, Kraków 1900 r., terakota - warsztaty
- Olga Boznańska, portret Zygmunta Pusłowskiego, Kraków 1913, olej na kartonie - warsztaty
- Olga Boznańska, portret Xawerego Pusłowskiego, Kraków lata 20-te XX wieku, olej na kartonie - warsztaty
- Francisco de Zurbaran, św. Jan na wyspie Patomos, Hiszpania XVII w., olej na płótnie - warsztaty
- Philips Koninck, Uczony w swojej pracowni, tempera/olej na desce dębowej, Niderlandy XVII w. - warsztaty
- Józef Mehoffer, portret Józefa Piłsudskiego, Kraków 1921, olej na tekturze - warsztaty
- Fasada Collegium Maius Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego od strony ul. Jagiellońskiej w Krakowie
- Kabinet Vargueno, Hiszpania XVII w., drewno malowane, intarsjowane
- Makieta w postaci klocków drewnianych przedstawiająca Kazimierz Wielkiego – adaptacja rzeźby monarchy z 1370 r. ze zbiorów Muzeum UJ
- Prototypy adaptacji studentów Wzornictwa Uniwersytetu Pedagogicznego w wykonane w ramach zajęć kursowych m.in.: makiety budynku, makiety sufitów z dwóch sal: Librarii i Auli, instalacje dotykowe