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Accessible Circuit<\/h3>\n

The\u00a0Interactive\u00a0Interface<\/strong> Accessible Circuit <\/strong>consists of a permanent exhibit at the Mines and Metal Museum\u00a0\u2013 MM Gerdau, including the Wise Stones interactive interfaces and other previously existent accessible museum collections. Please check below the visitor\u2019s guide, listed by floor, having in mind that the institution has an accessible elevator.<\/p>\n

Liberdade Square Floor \u2013 (First Floor, Street Level)<\/h3>\n

Liberdade Square\u2019s Sensory Model<\/h4>\n

Liberdade (Liberty) Square, where the Mines and Metal Museum \u2013 MM Gerdau is located, lies in the very heart of the city of Belo Horizonte, and is the city\u2019s most important square since the foundation of the new state capital in 1897. The square\u2019s sensory model has Braille subtitles, mobile parts and varied textures that help the visitor in the identification of gardens, fountains, bandstand, pedestrian crossings, statues, streets and alleys.<\/p>\n

Accessibility:<\/strong>\u00a0Complete for physically and visually impaired visitors and partial for hearing-impaired visitors (only Portuguese subtitles).<\/p>\n

Wise Stones Interactive Interface: Talc<\/h4>\n

This display allows the visitor to handle three mineral samples. When the button corresponding to the sample to be explored is pressed, a video is triggered on the screen, presenting enlarged images of the sample\u2019s details, animations, audio narrations, texts in Portuguese and a sign language translation. Learn, at this interactive interface, the scientific information, texture characteristics and curiosities about talc, galena and rhodonite.<\/p>\n

Accessibility:<\/strong>\u00a0Complete for physically impaired visitors.<\/p>\n

Quartz Druse<\/h4>\n

A \u201cdruse\u201d consists of an irregular grouping of crystals, taking some amazing forms. This sample of quartz druse (SiO2<\/sub>) was collected at Serra do Cip\u00f3, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. It weighs 1,120 lb., and both its size and varied textures are impressive. Contrary to what it may seem, the crystals\u2019 smooth facets formed naturally, without any form of artificial cut. Visitors have permission to touch the druse.<\/p>\n

Accessibility:<\/strong>\u00a0Complete for physically and visually impaired visitors and partial for hearing-impaired visitors (only Portuguese subtitles).<\/p>\n

Djalma Guimar\u00e3es Mineral Collection\u2019s films and audio recordings<\/h4>\n

This exhibit has 430 items, including mineral samples, gems and meteorites. In this gallery, visitors have access to 20 windows containing films and audio recordings, in which they can learn about physical\/chemical properties and curiosities about the items. Two items can also be touched by the visitors, \u00a0one quartz (SiO2<\/sub>) sample collected in the city of Aimor\u00e9s (MG, Brazil) and the great Bocai\u00fava meteorite, found in the homonymous city (MG, Brazil) in 1961.<\/p>\n

Accessibility:<\/strong>\u00a0Complete for physically and visually impaired visitors and partial for hearing-impaired visitors (only Portuguese subtitles). Assistance to visually impaired visitors is recommended in their transit from one interactive window to another.<\/p>\n

Mines Floor \u2013 2nd<\/sup> Floor<\/h3>\n

Wise Stones Interactive Interface: Gibbsite<\/h4>\n

This display allows the visitor to handle three mineral samples. When the button corresponding to the sample to be explored is pressed, a video is triggered on the screen, presenting enlarged images of the sample\u2019s details, animations, audio narrations, texts in Portuguese and a sign language translation. Learn, at this interactive interface, the scientific information, texture characteristics and curiosities about magnesite, gibbsite and baryte.<\/p>\n

Accessibility:<\/strong>\u00a0Complete for physically impaired visitors.<\/p>\n

Limestone mine\u2019s film and audio recordings<\/h4>\n

In the films and audio recordings of this interactive interface, Fern\u00e3o Dias, a bandeirante<\/em> from the 17th<\/sup> century, retells the story about the discovery of limestone in the state of Minas Gerais. It presents curiosities and the uses of limestone, composed by calcite, the most important ingredient in the manufacture of cement. Audio\/video duration: 6 minutes.<\/p>\n

Accessibility:<\/strong>\u00a0Complete for physically and visually impaired visitors, but not accessible to hearing-impaired visitors (without Portuguese subtitles and sign language translation).<\/p>\n

Bauxite (aluminum ore) mine films and audio recordings<\/h4>\n

Aluminum is among the world\u2019s most consumed metals, and Brazil is one of its most important producers. This display consists of a wheel of screens and audio narrations, by which the visitor immerges into the metal\u2019s life cycle, involving its extraction, transformation and recycling. Learn some amazing curiosities about the most abundant metal on the earth\u2019s surface! Audio\/video duration: 7 minutes.<\/p>\n

Accessibility:<\/strong>\u00a0Complete for physically and visually impaired visitors and partial for hearing-impaired visitors (only Portuguese subtitles). Assistance to visually impaired visitors is recommended for a safe positioning at the center of the immersive audio wheel.<\/p>\n

Audio\u00a0Mirages<\/em><\/h4>\n

This exhibit presents optical illusions of some minerals, while the visitor enjoys the poem \u201cO Romanceiro da Inconfid\u00eancia\u201d (Cec\u00edlia Meireles), in the voice of Fernanda Takai.<\/p>\n

Accessibility:<\/strong>\u00a0Complete for physically and visually impaired visitors and partial for hearing-impaired visitors (only Portuguese subtitles, poem in audio format only).<\/p>\n

Metal Floor \u2013 3rd<\/sup> Floor<\/h3>\n

Sculpture:\u00a0Sharp Tongue<\/em><\/h4>\n

L\u00edngua Afiad<\/em>a (Sharp Tongue), a metallic sculpture with surprisingly large dimensions,\u00a0occupies great part of one of the museum\u2019s halls. The visitor can better understand this magnificent sculpture\u2019s proportions by means of a tactile model.<\/p>\n

Accessibility:<\/strong>\u00a0Complete for physically and visually impaired visitors and partial for hearing-impaired visitors (only Portuguese subtitles).<\/p>\n

Wise Stones Interactive Interface: Quartz<\/h4>\n

This display allows the visitor to handle two mineral samples. When the button corresponding to the sample to be explored is pressed, a video is triggered on the screen, presenting enlarged images of the sample\u2019s details, animations, audio narrations, texts in Portuguese and a sign language translation. Learn, at this interactive interface, the scientific information, texture characteristics and curiosities about microcline and quartz.<\/p>\n

Accessibility:<\/strong>\u00a0Complete for physically impaired visitors.<\/p>\n

Mendeleev and the Periodic Table film<\/h4>\n

This film presents the Periodic Table, in a video narrated by Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev (1834-1907), who retells his story and talks about the creation of that table in the 19th<\/sup> century. Metallic tubes project the chemical elements\u2019 symbols on the floor, next to the bench in front of the screen. Audio\/video duration: 5 minutes.<\/p>\n

Accessibility:<\/strong>\u00a0Complete for physically and visually impaired visitors, but not accessible to hearing-impaired visitors (without Portuguese subtitles and sign language translation).<\/p>\n

Wise Stones Interactive Interface: Fossilized Wood<\/h4>\n

This display allows the visitor to handle five mineral samples: silex, muscovite, aquamarine, hematite and fossilized wood. Whenever a sample is lifted up, enlarged images, texts and an audio recording provide curiosities and physical characteristics of that item, pointing out aspects of its texture. This is also possible to handle two simultaneous samples, triggering comparative data about them. The most important item here is fossilized wood, which, one day, was a piece of wood, but over time underwent a fossilization process, transforming it into a mineral. The bark\u2019s and the fibers\u2019 texture, combined with the mineral\u2019s coldness, produce touch-provoking sensations.<\/p>\n

Accessibility:<\/strong>\u00a0Complete for physically and visually impaired visitors and partial for hearing-impaired visitors (without sign language translation).\u00a0Mediated activity, to be scheduled with the\u00a0MM Gerdau\u2019s educative section<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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