see the museum differently when you are blind

The sculpture is monumental, but it is not visible with the eyes. A group of visitors to the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) look at their fingertips, thanks to reproductions on paper. “It is a special paper, we make photocopies on it and put them in the oven. It slightly swells all the black lines”, explains Isabelle Boule, from the service for people with specific needs at the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg.

This is how the visually impaired and blind public will discover an iconic painting, Rouget by Read it singing the Marseillaise. In the absence of colors, they will perceive outline. But there is no medium for every work. For a sculpture of Rodin for example, everything rests on the description of the guide. This makes it possible to appeal to the imagination, but sometimes also for some of them, to memories.