To feel van Gogh: the painter's Museum conduct tours for the visually impaired
ARTinvestment.RU   07 апреля 2015

In the framework of the project in the Amsterdam van Gogh Museum visually impaired visitors allow you to touch 3D reproductions of his works, is poured into the rooms smell of lavender in General, use different senses

to Make the art of the great masters are available for people with visual impairments — such is the aim of the project "Touch van Gogh" that was run by the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Special program for the blind and visually impaired includes interactive tours and workshops involving different senses in addition to vision. In excursions can involve not only blind and visually impaired, but also their friends, relatives or soprovozhdayuschie@

While such tours are held five times a year. First, the guide conducts a tour of the main exhibition, and then in a specially designed workshop to give participants the opportunity to literally touch the canvas. But not allowed to touch the originals, and three-dimensional copies. In 2013, with the technology of 3D scanning and high-resolution printing Museum began to produce such three-dimensional reproductions, reproduces rich texture colorful surface of the canvases. These 3D copy has been very helpful in developing the program "Touch van Gogh". Famous impasto of van Gogh's interesting to feel not only visitors with visual impairments, but also seeing ludam@

in addition, in the workshop you can touch the layout of the interior with the famous painting of van Gogh's "Bedroom in Arles". The workshop also influences the sense of smell and hearing: in a room filled with the scent of lavender in the South of France and are pronounced aloud quotes from letters hudojnika@

Tour "to Experience van Gogh's" radically changed the perception of the Museum of the visually impaired and blind people. "I visited the van Gogh Museum before, but it usually was a pleasure only to members of my family, and I just dragged their feet. This time I felt that too, and it was fun because you really feel the Museum is much better," said one of the participants of the new Projecta@

Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: artdaily.com, artinvestment.ru