! Spanish News Today – Innovative Art Exhibition For The Visually Impaired At Prado Museum In Madrid

The Prado art museum in Madrid is launching it first ever program to make some of the masterpieces it houses accessible to the blind and partially sighted, with visually handicapped visitors being given the chance to explore specially made works of art with their fingers.

Among the works included in the scheme, which is called “Hoy toca El Prado” and runs until 28th June, are “La fragua de Vulcano” by Velázquez, “El quitasol” by Goya, “La Gioconda” (or the Mona Lisa) by Leonardo da Vinci and “El caballero con la mano en el pecho” by El Greco.

Six pictures in total will be made available to visually impaired visitors so that they can explore relief versions made using Didú technology. The six correspond to different artistic genres and styles including religious paintings, mythology, everyday realism, portraits and still lifes.

The project has been developed in collaboration with professionals in visual disability and includes material such as braille panels and information boards and audio support guides for the tactile exploration of paintings. So complete is the offer that dark sight-impeding glasses are offered to those with normal vision so that they can share the experience!

The relief images will be displayed in the north gallery on the ground floor of the Villanueva building, and at the same time El Prado has inaugurated a new audio guide service with descriptions of more than fifty works of art for the partially sighted.

 

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