Integration and adaptation of persons with disabilities


Educational services have been offered at the State Darwin Museum for over 80 years. The founder and the first director of the Darwin museum Alexander Fedorovich Kohts gave many guided tours for blind students since mid 1920es. During the Great Patriotic War, the museum was visited by different groups of injured and disabled people. The director A.F. Kohts often worked with them personally. 

А.Ф. Котс ведет группу инвалидов войны (1942 г.)

Currently, the Museum regularly receives visitors with various forms of disability:

-          Mobility impairment

-          Hearing-impaired

-          Blind and visually Impaired

-          Intellectual disability and autism





The director of the museum Anna Iosifovna Kliukina gives a guided tour for the disabled visitors. The director of the Russian disability non-governmental organization (NGO) “Perspektiva” Denis Rosa (in the centre) and the disabled visitors: Natalia Prisetskaya and Valeriy Shkolnikov.

The Darwin museum is especially equipped for disabled visitors. If necessary, the museum staff will assist you.

There is a special lift for visitors with mobility impairment and an especially equipped toilet of a larger size.

A special route around the exposition was devised for blind visitors; the route includes tactile study of sculptures and reconstructions of ancient people and extinct animals. 









A number of exhibits was selected for tactile study of the blind. These items reflect the funds of the Museum, including the ones on display or inaccessible to public: invertebrates, bones, stuffed birds and animals, pieces of fur of various mammals.








A number of exhibits was selected for tactile study of the blind. These items reflect the funds of the Museum, including the ones on display or inaccessible to public: invertebrates, bones, stuffed birds and animals, pieces of fur of various mammals.


The State Duma Deputy O.N. Smolin, visually disabled of the 1 group, examines a stuffed pangolin.


Mr. Colin Low, the President of the European Blind Union, examines the stuffed owl.   

The museum regularly hosts exhibitions, presenting the works of artists with disabilities and children with autism and delayed development. The achievements of the museum in the field of creating a comfortable environment for disabled persons was marked at the “REHA-2003” exhibitions in Düsseldorf (Germany), and at the Sokolniki exhibition complex in Moscow (the “Invatekh-2003”, “REHATECH-2005” events).