Case study · Murcia, Episcopal Palace
A Nativity scene also told in voice, braille and pictograms.
Fundación Prometeo and the Murcia City Council have turned the municipal Nativity at the Episcopal Palace into "the most accessible in history": lecterns with tactile drawings, easy-read text, braille and a NaviLens code at every scene.
Episcopal Palace · Murcia
Municipal Nativity — Episcopal Palace courtyard
Fundación Prometeo
Curator of the «Accessible Nativity» trail
250+ figures
Hebrew-style, up to 3.5 m tall, a river and six fountains
NaviLens + braille + easy-read
Lecterns with pictograms, braille and NaviLens code at every scene
The client
Fundación
Prometeo
Fundación Prometeo drives, together with the Murcia City Council, the "Christmas for all" campaign: an accessible, inclusive trail through the municipal Nativity at the Episcopal Palace, with partners including Plena inclusión Murcia, IES Mediterráneo, Marver and NaviLens.
Every scene receives a lectern with a tactile line drawing of the composition, an easy-read description, a braille transcription, the "Accessible Nativity" pictogram and a NaviLens code, readable from a distance, that plays the label in the language of the visitor's phone.
The project debuted in December 2023 and consolidated in the 2024 and 2025 editions, covered by Europa Press, La Opinión de Murcia and Murcia Diario as "the most accessible municipal Nativity in history".
§ The challenge
Make a monumental Nativity, also, a trail for everyone.
- 01
A monumental Nativity, hard to read without context
Murcia's municipal Nativity gathers more than 250 figures and models such as the Maison Carrée, Trajan's Column, Herod's Palaces at Masada or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Without an accessible narrative, much of the visitor missed the symbolism of every scene.
- 02
Zero accessibility for blind and partially sighted visitors
The traditional route relied on sight: small figures, scattered scenes, conventional signage. Blind people, those with low vision or reading difficulties could not identify where each mystery was nor what it portrayed.
- 03
A highly diverse audience: tourists, schools and families
Every Christmas the Episcopal Palace receives locals, schoolchildren, pilgrims and tourists with very different languages and needs. Fundación Prometeo wanted a truly universal trail: sight, audio, braille, easy-read and pictograms on the same label.
§ The solution
A fourfold label: tactile drawing, easy-read, braille and NaviLens.
Every Nativity scene gets a black lectern branded "Accessible Nativity" and signed by Fundación Prometeo. On the left, a line drawing reproduces the composition; below it, a description in braille.
On the right, an easy-read card explains the biblical episode, places it in the whole scene and lists the figures. The lower corner carries a NaviLens code scannable from several metres with the free NaviLens GO app.
The same surface serves blind and partially sighted people, visitors with cognitive disabilities or autism, schoolchildren reading easy-read text, and international tourists who hear the content read out in their own language.
§ The rollout
Scene by scene, an accessible trail across the courtyard.
§ Timeline
Three editions consolidating the Accessible Nativity.
- Dec 2023
Accessible Nativity debuts with Fundación Prometeo
Murcia's Episcopal Palace inaugurates "the most accessible municipal Nativity in history", curated by Fundación Prometeo within the "Christmas for all" campaign. Every scene gets a lectern with tactile drawing, easy-read text, braille, NaviLens and an Accessible Nativity pictogram.
- Dec 2024
Official opening with NaviLens technology
Mayor José Ballesta and the Bishop of Cartagena, José Manuel Lorca Planes, inaugurate the 2024 edition of the municipal Nativity with 250+ Hebrew-style figures and NaviLens codes at every scene, with music by the Discantus Choir.
- Dec 2025
The municipal Nativity keeps the accessible trail
The new edition of the municipal Nativity at the Episcopal Palace again commits to the accessible trail with NaviLens: a group of children walks the set at the 8 December presentation.
§ Results
The same Nativity, now universal.
Universal trail
Every scene comes with tactile drawing, easy-read text, braille and NaviLens code
Real autonomy
Blind and partially sighted visitors walk the Nativity without needing a companion
Multilingual
The NaviLens audio plays automatically in the language of the visitor's phone
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