INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
On the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Galleria Borghese’s Accessibility Office proposes, starting from Monday, December 1st, a series of activities confirming the continuous commitment that the museum has carried out for years to make its collections accessible to audiences with various disabilities and fragilities. The activities involve the active participation and co-planning of professionals with disabilities who have long collaborated with the museum.
On December 1st and 22nd, the training sessions of the course dedicated to the museum’s reception and surveillance staff, “Galleria Borghese, a welcoming museum,” will take place, with two appointments featuring Luigi Re and Lucilla D’Antilio sharing their experiences as people with visual disabilities. The training course will provide museum staff with the tools for better welcoming and communicating with people with visual and hearing disabilities and various fragilities through meeting, listening, and direct exchange with people with disabilities who participate in the life of Galleria Borghese.
On December 4th, some students from John Cabot University, with which the museum has an active agreement, will take part in a presentation of the main accessibility projects, demonstrating the many relationships the museum has with the Roman territory, including at an international level, aimed at raising awareness among an increasingly wide audience about issues related to diversity, fragility, and inclusion.
Furthermore, on Saturday, December 6, 2025, at 9:30 AM, a new event of the project Stories of Cardinal Scipione and Casa Borghese – Live Masterpieces will take place. For 5 years now, this project has outlined constantly changing thematic paths within the collections, dedicated to deaf and hearing people together, thanks to the co-planning of a deaf professional, the art historian Violante Nonno. The goal is to create, through Art, moments of socialization and cultural growth for diverse audiences and contribute to breaking down prejudice against disability.
The two groups of visitors will follow an itinerary in dual language, Italian and Italian Sign Language (LIS), winding through the sacred-themed paintings of Galleria Borghese, enriched by the interpretation of two deaf actors in Visual Vernacular. An extraordinary opportunity for all participants to live a new experience, where the artworks come to life thanks to the artistic action of Chiara Lucia Conte and Lorenzo Laudo.
Free initiative with mandatory reservation: ga-bor.accessibilita@cultura.
Galleria Borghese thus intends to promote an accessible vision of Culture, in full implementation of the right of everyone to participate in cultural life, particularly those at risk of social exclusion. The exceptional nature of its collections fosters experiences of socialization between different people, cultural growth, and the development of the personal capacities of people with fragilities—cultural welfare, therefore, which the museum has pursued with commitment for a long time.