Egypt
- Egyptology News Goes Audio!
You can now listen to Egyptology News. I am very interested in making online content available for the visually impaired so I have added an Odiogo feed to Egyptology News. Thanks to Kate Phizackerley for pointing me at Odiogo. Just click on the "Listen...
- Manchester Museum Online Advent Calendar
Manchester Museum A nice idea from Manchester Museum is their online Advent Calendar, featuring some lovely objects from the collection. There are items from the entire collection but there are some Egyptian items featured in amongst a good selection...
- Museum: Cairo Musem Offers Blind Tours
Big Pond News For the average visitor to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, a stroll through the museums halls, crowded with ancient statues, papyrus, mummies, and gilded relics, offers an unparalleled journey into the visual splendour of Ancient Egypt. It...
- Tactile Gallery, Louvre
Egypt Daily Star News A photograph of a visually impaired man, with his guide dog, exploring a replica of the serekh of Djet in the Louvre's Tactile Gallery: Didier Roule, with his dog "Panisse," touches a replica of ancient Egypt's Snake King...
- Fort Lauderdale Museum Sued Re Disabled Access To Tut
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/13844764.htm "Several disabled museum patrons have sued the organizers of the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibit for allegedly failing to comply with the Americans with Disabilities...
Egypt
Curator’s Diary: Ancient Egypt for the visually impaired
Egypt at the Manchester Museum
On Thursday I met with a group of around 30 visitors from Henshaws, a charity that provides support for blind and visually impaired people.
I confess to a little trepidation at the task of describing in sufficient detail objects that I am used to presenting in primarily visual terms – through photos or line drawings. We tend to speak of Egyptian ‘visual culture’ rather than ‘tangible culture’, and most museum displays assume that objects – because they are usually behind glass – are only viewed by sight. But what if you are blind or visually impaired?
The selection of objects for the session was dictated mainly by texture. Along with Conservator Irit Narkiss, Andrea Winn, the Museum’s Curator of Community Exhibitions, and I chose objects that provided a range of surfaces.
- Egyptology News Goes Audio!
You can now listen to Egyptology News. I am very interested in making online content available for the visually impaired so I have added an Odiogo feed to Egyptology News. Thanks to Kate Phizackerley for pointing me at Odiogo. Just click on the "Listen...
- Manchester Museum Online Advent Calendar
Manchester Museum A nice idea from Manchester Museum is their online Advent Calendar, featuring some lovely objects from the collection. There are items from the entire collection but there are some Egyptian items featured in amongst a good selection...
- Museum: Cairo Musem Offers Blind Tours
Big Pond News For the average visitor to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, a stroll through the museums halls, crowded with ancient statues, papyrus, mummies, and gilded relics, offers an unparalleled journey into the visual splendour of Ancient Egypt. It...
- Tactile Gallery, Louvre
Egypt Daily Star News A photograph of a visually impaired man, with his guide dog, exploring a replica of the serekh of Djet in the Louvre's Tactile Gallery: Didier Roule, with his dog "Panisse," touches a replica of ancient Egypt's Snake King...
- Fort Lauderdale Museum Sued Re Disabled Access To Tut
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/13844764.htm "Several disabled museum patrons have sued the organizers of the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibit for allegedly failing to comply with the Americans with Disabilities...