Exhibitions

Intensive work of the Department and the First Children’s Library for Visually Impaired Children at the Pećine Elementary in Rijeka on the tactile picture book for blind and visually impaired children started in 2008, when and the First Children’s Library for Visually Impaired Children was opened.

It has now been 15 years since the “Dajmo da čuju” charity event, which had moved Croatia in unprecedented ways, having gathered over 17 million HRK for the purchase of cochlear implants.

Stephan Lupino focuses attention again – this time to righteousness and equality with his new artistic expression he calls – Lupinism.

In developed European countries, national institutes for education of the blind opened as early as the 18^th century, particularly after Louis Braille invented the alphabet for the blind in 1825 and it became clear that even the blind can get educated.