The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya is a beneficiary of the  Programme POCTEFA (2014-2020) ARTIS (2019-2022).

The European Cross-Border Cooperation Programme has been created to promote the sustainable development of the border territory of Spain, France and Andorra. Among its priority axes the aim is to strengthen skills and social inclusion in the territories. Within this axis, the ARTIS project corresponds to the Investment Priority of the European Union, whose area of work is the improvement of access to social, health, cultural and leisure services.

The ARTIS project proposes that the cultural sector responds to the challenges of inclusion and accessibility that improve access to the cultural resources of the population at a greater risk of exclusion either due to disability (visual, auditory, cognitive or motor) or social reasons, developing the mechanisms of accessibility of cultural spaces and facilities.

The actions boosted from the Museu Nacional:

The Museu Nacional, in its desire to deepen its social dimension, has as a priority aim the development of the museum's Accessibility Plan that guarantees universal access for people to art and culture by eliminating any barriers, either architectural, sensory, cognitive, sociocultural or economic.

That is why the ARTIS project will guarantee, with the actions that are developed, sensory access to the collections:

•     Fitting of magnetic loops at ticket sales counters, information desk, access to offices and the Library to ensure clear communication between the staff at Customer Services and people with low hearing.
•     Development of tactile and inclusive resources to guarantee access to the Palau Nacional building, its architecture and history for a wide range of audiences, from families to visually impaired adults, through the production of material with educational proposals on the Palau Nacional building.
•     Production of a tactile model of the Palau Nacional building and a plan of the museum's foyer and its layout.
•     Development of 21 tactile tablets distributed among 4 collections of the museum: Romanesque art, Gothic art, Renaissance and Baroque art and modern art. Each of the collections will have an introductory or contextual table and 4 developed works, which can be paintings or sculptures, except for the modern art collection, which will have 5 tables. Each of the selected works will have an audio description.

Project co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER).

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