The Louvre, the most visited museum in the world, located in the heart of Paris, opens a new multisensory space that will allow all visitors to explore the sculpture, reported AFP.
The new 80 square meter “educational and inclusive” space is located below the art galleries, home to Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Mona Lisa. The space was designed based on the Paris museum’s first “tactile gallery”, created back in 1995 to make the museum more accessible to the visually impaired.
“We decided to renew the concept,” says Stephanie Deschamps-Tan, chief curator in the sculpture department. Touchable casts, Braille cards, sign-interpreted tours, listening stories, audio descriptions, tactile marble and bronze plaques and other aids enable all visitors to discover and understand sculpture from the Middle Ages to the 19th century
Also presented are materials such as clay, marble, wood and plaster and their natural environment, sculptors’ workshops, the functions of sculpted objects, and the tools used to create them. Louis XIV on horseback, Napoleon’s death mask – the reproductions of the works, displayed at a height suitable for small visitors and those with limited mobility, also enable the blind and visually impaired to orient themselves in the form and style by touching them.
In 2022, marked by the return of foreign tourists after the health crisis, the Louvre welcomed 7.8 million people, compared to 3 million visitors for the Orsay Museum and the Pompidou Center.
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