North America Raised Relief Map

Author: Viliam Hrabovec, a typhlopedagogue, Czechoslovak State Institute for the Blind in Levoča

The year of production: 1934-1935

Dimensions: 91 x 120 cm

Scale: 1 : 8 million

Material: wood, wire, plaster

Donor and the last user: United Boarding School for the Blind in Levoča

In historical documents it is stated that Viliam Hrabovec made  19 astonishing teaching aids for pupils at Czechoslovak State Institute for the Blind in Levoča:

a tactile map of a country (1925-1926),

a hand wrought copper globe (1927),

a plaster national emblem of the Czechoslovak Republic (1926-1927),

a tactile wall map of the Czechoslovak Republic (1929-1930) that has been still placed in United Boarding School for the Blind in Levoča,

then a relief of Levoča’s town hall (1932-1933),

raised relief maps of Africa, South America and Asia (1933-1934),

raised relief map of North America (1934-1935).

He was rewarded with honourable credit of the Ministry of Education and National Public Education for all his work.