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Perkins School for the Blind

Perkins Museum, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, Massachusets.

Installed in the 1920’s as a tactile museum for blind students, the museum now needed to meet the needs of all visitors, sighted, blind and disabled. Due to the historic architecture, the best solution was to work with the existing case structure, maintaining the link with the past. Each case was gutted. Totally enclosed cabinets became open cases, with touchable objects. Audio, Braille descriptors, a tactile campus map and globe were added.