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...
- 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...
- Egyptian Museum Communicating Ancient Egypt To Blind Children
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5673"Fifteen young girls sat around two tables in a classroom at the Egyptian Museum, molding rakes and water pumps out of red clay. They are participating in the museum’s program to teach schoolchildren...
- Tutankhamun Exhibition - Pre-december Rush
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pentutnumbersjul05,0,991592.story?coll=sfla-news-palm "When the King Tutankhamun exhibit arrives in South Florida on Dec. 15, it is expected to lure more than 400,000 visitors to Fort Lauderdale's...
Egypt
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 Act of 1990. All Disabled Americans Inc. and five of its members allege in a complaint filed last week in U.S. District Court that the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale provides "inadequate access to people with mobility and visual disabilities" at the Tut exhibit.
Some of the members of the Indiana-based group use wheelchairs or power motor scooters, while others are blind. During a visit to the exhibit, they were unable to read overhead descriptive signs and found the museum's restrooms, parking and access aisles to be inaccessible, according to the complaint."
"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 Act of 1990. All Disabled Americans Inc. and five of its members allege in a complaint filed last week in U.S. District Court that the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale provides "inadequate access to people with mobility and visual disabilities" at the Tut exhibit.
Some of the members of the Indiana-based group use wheelchairs or power motor scooters, while others are blind. During a visit to the exhibit, they were unable to read overhead descriptive signs and found the museum's restrooms, parking and access aisles to be inaccessible, according to the complaint."
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Also on the Sun Sentinel website:
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Also on the Sun Sentinel website:
http://tinyurl.com/aj6lv
"While making a museum exhibit accessible to the blind may not be as simple as installing a wheelchair ramp, experts in disability law say the same principles apply. Scott LaBarre, president of the National Association of Blind Lawyers, said museums can accommodate visually impaired visitors and comply with the ADA by providing guided tours, descriptive audio tours, or replicas of some artifacts that blind patrons can touch. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art offers a number of 'touch tours' including one featuring six ancient Egyptian sculptures."
- 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...
- 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...
- Egyptian Museum Communicating Ancient Egypt To Blind Children
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5673"Fifteen young girls sat around two tables in a classroom at the Egyptian Museum, molding rakes and water pumps out of red clay. They are participating in the museum’s program to teach schoolchildren...
- Tutankhamun Exhibition - Pre-december Rush
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pentutnumbersjul05,0,991592.story?coll=sfla-news-palm "When the King Tutankhamun exhibit arrives in South Florida on Dec. 15, it is expected to lure more than 400,000 visitors to Fort Lauderdale's...