'Their fingers are their eyes'

Blind adults are listening to a short lecture at Sunderland
Museum before examining a human skeleton


Here is an example of a blind person 'seeing' through
touch of a skeleton at Sunderland Museum


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 & Museums, UK
The museum's flickr is here

A group of blind children feeling the stuffed walrus at
Sunderland Museum, so they can 'see' what it looks like.

Here is a young girl who is blind - examining mounted
birds at Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

How we show our museums to the blind. Boys
examining a Buddha at Sunderland Museum

Here are three blind children examining a mounted
polar bear at Sunderland Museum