Museums explore different ways to show paintings, photos to blind people

[The Patriot]

Museums explore different ways to show paintings, photos to blind people

06-05-2019 05:26 AM

As people at the American Alliance of Museums’ trade show passed their hands along the raised figures in touchable versions of a Vietnam War photograph, small metal sensors touched off recordings to explain whose picture they were touching and what had happened to him. At a nearby booth was a flat reproduction of a Van Gogh self-portrait with slightly raised, slicker areas to show both outlines and how brush strokes swept or swirled within those outlines.


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