The İzmir Touchable Barrier-Free Museum of Modern Art was set up by İzmir Metropolitan Municipality within the Örnekköy Social Projects Campus, and its purpose is access: to culture and art, for blind and deaf people above all but for everyone in the city.
What is displayed are not original paintings but ceramic relief replicas, faithful to the originals and made by the artists of the İdol Art House, of works by well-known painters from the various movements of the modern period. Because they are reliefs they can be touched. A QR-code system adds audio description for blind visitors and sign-language commentary for deaf visitors.
It stands in Örnekköy, at No: 379/A on Baş Pehlivan Karaali Caddesi, in the Zübeyde Hanım neighbourhood.
When to go
- Climate
- Across İzmir as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 8.9 °C in January to 28 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in April, May, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (146 mm) and lightest in July (4 mm). Long-term means for 1938-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
Visiting hours
- Hours
- Weekdays 09:00 - 17:00
