The Museum and Clovernook Center for the Blind & Visually Impaired
The Museum has partnered with the Clovernook Center for the Blind & Visually Impaired to increase access for all visitors.
The Declaration's Journey
The special exhibition The Declaration's Journey includes a tactile composing stick and accompanying Braille description as well as a tactile booklet, courtesy of Clovernook Center.
Tactile Composing Stick and Braille Label
A tactile replica of a composing stick — used to arrange movable type for a printing press in the 19th century — on The Declaration's Journey discovery cart and a Braille descriptive label allow visitors with visual disabilities to explore printing in the 1800s.
Tactile Booklet
The tactile booklet contains versions of images in the exhibition using raised textures, allowing users to experience them through touch. It also includes Braille copies of important texts in the exhibition, such as Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
Witness to Revolution: The Unlikely Travels of Washington's Tent
3D-Printed Tents and Braille Descriptions
For the Museum's special exhibition Witness to Revolution: The Unlikely Travels of Washington's Tent, Clovernook Center created touchable 3D-printed scale models of the tents in George Washington's wartime encampment, along with Braille descriptions of the tents.
Liberty: Don Troiani's Paintings of the Revolutionary War
Tactile Paintings
The special exhibition Liberty: Don Troiani's Paintings of the Revolutionary War included tactile images of three of artist Don Troiani's paintings, created and donated by Clovernook Center. These tactile versions interpreted the paintings using a variety of raised textures, allowing users to experience the paintings through touch.
Making Art Accessible with Clovernook Center for the Blind & Visually Impaired
In this episode of the Museum's AmRev360 video series, Clovernook Center's Sam Foulkes, Director of Braille Production & Accessible Innovation, and Brian Anderson, Arts & Accessibility Coordinator, join Museum President & CEO Dr. R. Scott Stephenson to discuss Clovernook Center's mission, the process for how tactile graphics of paintings are made, what museums can do to be more accessible to people who are blind or have visual disabilities, and more.