The new National Museum of Archaeology of Reggio Calabria, located in the centre of the city, is one of the rare examples of a building designed and built to contain museum collections. The MArRC is now a modern museum that complies with international quality standards, both in terms of layout and of its multimediality, interactivity and display areas. It is one of the most representative archaeological museums for the period of the Magna Grecia. It is known throughout the world for its permanent exhibition of the famous Riace bronzes, but it also has a vast display of relics from all over Calabria. The museum route starts at the top, with a section dedicated to prehistory and continues down to the ground floor with exhibitions of the great Templar architecture from the areas of Locri, Kaulonia and Punta Alice.

The aim of the Museum is to “tell” the visitor, whoever they may be, the story of Calabria. The MArRC has created a video guide in Italian sign language to allow deaf visitors to enjoy their museum experience to the full. The Italian Sign Language video guide includes 120 videos and is available on three different digital platforms:

– integrated into display islands (touch screen multimedia systems that comprise the multimedia equipment of the MArRC);

– installed on 20 tablets made available to deaf visitors at the MArRC Bookshop;

– usable over the internet as a Web App by mobile devices and personal computers.