Exhibit Design Relating to Low Vision and Blindness: What Visitors with Vision Loss Want Museums and Parks to Know about Effective Communication

Introduction

“ . . . our appreciation of our surroundings is multisensory, and . . . touch makes an important contribution to our well-being as well as our ability to understand and relate to the material world” (Pye 2007).

In July 2008, the Smithsonian Institution Accessibility Program, the National Center on Accessibility, and the National Park Service collaborated on a daylong focus group study to learn about effective means of communication for museum and park visitors who are blind or have low vision