askhistorians: A group of blind children feeling the stuffed walrus at Sunderland Museum, so they
askhistorians: A group of blind children feeling the stuffed walrus at Sunderland Museum, so they can ‘see’ what it looks like.“To them, their fingers are eyes” From 1913, John Alfred Charlton Deas, a former curator at Sunderland Museum, organised several handling sessions for the blind, first offering an invitation to the children from the Sunderland Council Blind School, to handle a few of the collections at Sunderland Museum, which was ‘eagerly accepted’. (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museum) -- source link