File:Portland Vase (2).jpg

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English: Blind visitors to Sunderland Museum 'seeing' a copy of the Portland Vase through touch.

“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’.

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