Blind visitors to Sunderland Museum 'seeing' a copy of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Vase" class="extiw" title="w:Portland Vase">Portland Vase</a> through touch.
<p>“To them, their fingers are eyes”
</p><p>From 1913, John Alfred Charlton Deas, a former curator at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunderland_Museum_and_Winter_Gardens" class="extiw" title="w:Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens">Sunderland Museum</a>, 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’. 
</p><p>Ref: TWCMS:2006.7984
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