Accessibility

At the center of the exhibit space and the heart of our exhibit, two Touch Tables offered a tactile and interactive experience to both blind and non-blind visitors. Featured items include an antique Braille-Writer; replicas of nineteenth-century maps used in geography classes at schools for blind students; and Moon script magazines from the early 1930s. The table also shares accessibility materials, such as: tactile TIE versions of diagrams, maps and charts displayed in cases; the exhibit’s braille and clear print guidebooks; and the headphones and MP3 players that share our audio guide. Braille and clear-print ink labels identify and give instructions for the use of all items.

Two tactile maps rest on a table. A framed map depicts the British Isles. The map has inked place names on it but some of those names have been copied in braille, the braille presented on tags that are attached to the map with strings and pins. Upho…

Touch Tours for members of the visually disabled community available on request; a Touch and Talk event is scheduled for April 2016. Please email Vanessa.Warne@umanitoba.ca for more information or to schedule a visit. If you prefer to receive an Audio Tour file to listen to at your convenience, we are happy to accommodate you. Visit our Audio Archive page for more options.

Two large oblong tables are covered with an orderly display of opened books and magazines, an early 20th-century brailler, tactile maps, and two sets of headphones.
A close-up photograph of an early nineteenth-century history textbook printed in Howe type, a raised script that closely resembles the script in which ink-print books are printed, the key differences being an increase in size and the absence of ink.
A close-up photograph of a primer of William Moon’s script; the letters are both inked and raised and a portion of the sentence “God is Love” is visible below the alphabet.
A man sits at a table with his hands on the keys of an antique brailler. Guides on its use, in ink and in braille, are posted by the brailler.