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Feeling Van Gogh: Art experience for the blind

Beatrice von Braunschweig
March 7, 2026

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam ensures that blind and visually impaired visitors can also get a sense of the Dutch master’s paintings. We reveal how.

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It’s normally impossible to get so close to a painting, let alone touch it. But at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, staff have come up with a way to allow blind and visually impaired visitors to access art. When you can feel, smell and hear artworks in an exhibition, what happens?