[Art_beyond_sight_educators] Vatican Museums offer hands-on approach to art for the blind, deaf

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Vatican Museums offer hands-on approach to art for the blind, deaf


A corner of a sarcophagus is seen in the pre-Christian and early 
Christian art and artifacts display at the Vatican Museums. The Museums 
have started special tours for the deaf and blind, offering a 
multi-sensory experience of some of its most famous works. (CNS file 
photo/Nancy Wiechec)


VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican Museums have launched special tours 
for the deaf and blind.

The two-hour tours are free to the hearing- and visually impaired and 
seek to offer a multi-sensory experience of some of the Museums' most 
famous works.
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