This is a pretty special museum. It's designed for the blind and visually handicapped people with scale models of monuments from around the country and the world, pieces done by blind artists, and a room showing the history of instruments used to help the blind. Unlike other museums, everything can be touched.
Upon entering the museum, my friends made me close my eyes and lead me around the room to different exhibits. I'd have to guess what the monument was. It was pretty easy for me to recognize what I was touching because I had seen pictures or the actual monuments themselves. But I'd like to know how the blind form images in their minds. There was a blind man at the museum who was interested in talking to us Californians, but I didn't know how to phrase my questions. I'd like to come back before I leave Madrid.
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| She may or may not have broken the Taj Mahal... |
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| La Alhambra |
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| Toledo, the city we couldn't visit. Instead we looked at the city plan. |
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| I like it when I can interact with art. Well this is Cristobal interacting with art. I was kind of wary of the moving spikes. |
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