Museum in Texas offers Touch Tours for those who are Blind

A museum in Austin, Texas now offers touch tours to those who are Blind and Visually impaired. Hopefully, Arkansas will follow suit soon! 

original article from Austin 360

The sense of touch and the physical qualities of sculpture seem supremely well-matched, depending on the vulnerability of the materials to human contact.

The Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, which is free over the summer thanks to donations from the McBee Family Foundation and others, has always encouraged contact with certain sturdy works of outdoor art.

(Climbing remains out of bounds. And don’t touch the indoor art.)

Now the Umlauf offers, in partnership with the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, “Touch Tours” for the blind and visually impaired.