Museum Tours for the Visually Impaired
NEW YORK
American Museum of Natural History
212-769-5100
West 79th Street & Central Park
New York, New York
More than 40 permanent halls, temporary exhibitions, space shows, and IMAX films exploring the universe and the diversity of life on Earth.
The museum offers touch tour programs for the visually impaired. The content of the tours change each month, and will be announced on their website. Specially trained guides highlight special themes and exhibition halls with extensive verbal descriptions and touchable objects.
For information and advance registration call 212-313-7565
The Tenement Museum
New York, New York
A museum dedicated to showing how immigrants made a life for themselves in New York while working in the garment industry and surviving two economic depressions.
Touch tours providing extensive description are provided on specific dates.
The museum’s historic tenement is not wheelchair or walker accessible.
For information contact Rachel Grygorcewicz at 212-431-0233 ext 2
The Rubin Museum of Art
212-620-5000
New York, New York
Verbal imaging and touch tours for visitors who are visually impaired are now being offered.
Hour long tours take visitors on a journey through the culture, history, religion, and arts of the Himalayas.
Group and individual tours are offered with two weeks advance notice.
For information contact Emilie Dufour at 212-620-5000.