"Please touch the art" museum exhibits for the blind

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Please Touch the Art: 3-D Printing Helps Visually Impaired Appreciate Paintings
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In museums the world over, one rule trumps all others: look but don’t touch. But what if you can’t look? Why should being blind prevent a person from appreciating works of art that are not only masterpieces, but also an important part of his or her country’s cultural history?

. . . The solution, the curators concluded, was not simply offering audio or braille guides, but to create elaborate 3-D replicas of key works, which visitors could touch….

Please touch the art
 
This is awesome!! I am glad that blind people get to experience some arts like hearing people.
 
Sounds like an incredible place. Who says blind people can't enjoy art just as well as sighted people? :)
 
We had turner prize which a lot of conceptual art which I like and some beyond me and last time at Tate they had interactive art don't know if still there.
I not sure but Turner may be international and this sort art do well.one of nominated was art for blind art was sound only.Husband said it sounded awful but clever
 
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