Egypt
Living In Egypt (Maryanne Stroud Gabbani)
With photos of the museum visit.
- A Degree In Egyptology For Children
Egypt Centre Swansea blog (Carolyn Graves-Brown) This morning Wendy (assistant curator), Ros (museum assistant) and Ashleigh (volunteer manager) are off to the annual award ceremony for Children’s University and I am left holding the fort....
- 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...
- Travel: Observing The Pilgrims
Living in Egypt blog (Maryanne Stroud Gabbani) I look at Maryanne Stroud Gabbani's blogs most days because they offer a great insight into her life in the rural outskirts of Cairo and Giza. Today she describes taking some visitors to the Giza plateau...
- 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...
- 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
Seeing in a new way
Living In Egypt (Maryanne Stroud Gabbani)
With photos of the museum visit.
Laurie and I have been friends on email for over 15 years and friends face to face for almost 10 years. We got to know each other on Equine-L so it was only natural that, having recently retired from her work, she should decide to come and visit me in Egypt and go riding. What might not seem so completely natural is the fact that she brought a friend along to "see" Egypt who is blind. I was a bit taken aback at the idea of Gail wandering around our stretch of the Sahara with only someone calling out directions, but all went well and will be in a Sarcophagus post soon. When we were planning activities for Laurie and Gail the seeing issue was an interesting parameter. We talked about museums, but as Gail said "Once you've felt one glass case, you've felt them all". So true.
BUT...I'd read that the Egyptian Museum was instituting special tours for the blind so I called them. Mona, the assistant to the director Dr. Wafaa el-Saddik, told me that so far the tours had been done for school children and not for adults but she would see what they could do.
- A Degree In Egyptology For Children
Egypt Centre Swansea blog (Carolyn Graves-Brown) This morning Wendy (assistant curator), Ros (museum assistant) and Ashleigh (volunteer manager) are off to the annual award ceremony for Children’s University and I am left holding the fort....
- 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...
- Travel: Observing The Pilgrims
Living in Egypt blog (Maryanne Stroud Gabbani) I look at Maryanne Stroud Gabbani's blogs most days because they offer a great insight into her life in the rural outskirts of Cairo and Giza. Today she describes taking some visitors to the Giza plateau...
- 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...
- 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...