The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia PA has released two new resources designed to make the Museum’s gallery experience more engaging and accessible to blind or low-vision guests.
These include an Audio Descriptive Tour of the Museum’s core galleries, which expands on current audio tour offerings and features historical content, evocative descriptions of objects and environments, and navigational directions to help people move around the Museum. The tour is accompanied by a new Tactile Map featuring braille and raised, touchable guides of the Museum’s public spaces that guests can check out from our front desk.
The goal of these new resources is to offer increased access to in-depth, unfacilitated experiences in our galleries for all guests. The Audio Descriptive Tour and the Tactile Map also work in tandem to provide the blind and low-vision community with adapted content and more streamlined physical access to our space so that all visitors can fully immerse themselves in the compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked the ongoing American Revolution.
An Audio Descriptive Tour of the core galleries is available for visitors for free at the Museum’s front desk and is also available online. The Tactile Map is available for visitors to check out at the front desk for free.