The exhibition itinerary of the Wool Art Museum is a real sensorial experience, where you can touch, smell, listen, learn, experiencing firsthand the manual skill of some gestures typical of the art of wool: visitors can still recognize inside the rooms, which in the past housed the production cycles of textile processing, the smell of the oils for lubricating the wool for carding, the intense smell of the yarns and freshly dyed fabrics, or the metallic and sharp smell of the textile machinery, and with a little imagination you may even be able to perceive the essences of work and effort that are still attached to the walls.

To make visitors listen to the deafening noises that echoed in the rooms and to observe the functioning of the machinery during the manufacturing processes, special multimedia itineraries were created. Monitors have been installed alongside the most representative machinery which are turned on by pressing a special red button: the videos show the movement that occurs during the production cycle and reproduce the beating of the loom, the hiss of the spinning mill and the subdued noise of the drums garnished with metal tips of the carding department, as well as showing how the natural dyeing of wool is carried out and the history of Panno Casentino with the functioning of the "ratinatrice" which is the machinery with which the characteristic curl of this wool cloth is created.

Touch is also fundamental to fully understand the textile processes and the qualities of a fabric; the feel of a fabric technically indicates precisely those characteristics that can be recognized exclusively with the sensitivity of the hands. In collaboration with the Italian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired, we have created a tactile path to make tools, fibers and fabrics accessible, where you learn by touching; in an attempt to break down the perceptive and sensorial barriers that visually impaired people constantly encounter, very useful itineraries have been created for all visitors, who thus have the opportunity to discover the importance of the tactile dimension. At the beginning of the museum itinerary there are some plexiglass containers containing the most common textile fibres. By placing your hands inside them, you can try to recognize them according to the sensations you perceive: hot, cold, soft, smooth, rough.

Furthermore, sighted and blind people can experience the corridor of touch: a dark and narrow stone tunnel, marked with soft LEDs on the floor, where they try to identify, exclusively by touch, the different types of fabrics hanging on the walls. Once the visitor has touched and rubbed the fabric between his hands, he can pull it slightly to turn on a spotlight and illuminate the caption indicating the textile quality and the fibers it is made of.