"The museum that lets blind people touch 18th-century sculptures
Cappella Sansevero in Naples has developed a pioneering protocol to guarantee accessibility without compromising historical heritage"
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On March 17, at the Cappella Sansevero Museum in Naples, that relationship changed, if only temporarily. Inside the space that protects the Cristo Velato — the sculpture made by Giuseppe Sanmartino in 1753, known for the technical precision of its shroud — a group of blind and low-vision visitors gained access under an exceptional protocol: the barrier was removed.
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“Touch is its own language. It offers a different reading of forms, volumes, and surfaces,” Masucci explains. The assertion does not establish a hierarchy among the senses but instead organizes access to works from a new perspective.
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The initiative is part of a set of programs developed by the museum: tours with audio description, sign language content, adapted materials. “We consider this area a method, a mindset,” Masucci says.
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Cappella Sansevero in Naples has developed a pioneering protocol to guarantee accessibility without compromising historical heritage"
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On March 17, at the Cappella Sansevero Museum in Naples, that relationship changed, if only temporarily. Inside the space that protects the Cristo Velato — the sculpture made by Giuseppe Sanmartino in 1753, known for the technical precision of its shroud — a group of blind and low-vision visitors gained access under an exceptional protocol: the barrier was removed.
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“Touch is its own language. It offers a different reading of forms, volumes, and surfaces,” Masucci explains. The assertion does not establish a hierarchy among the senses but instead organizes access to works from a new perspective.
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The initiative is part of a set of programs developed by the museum: tours with audio description, sign language content, adapted materials. “We consider this area a method, a mindset,” Masucci says.
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Restoring the bodily dimension is not proposed here as an alternative but as a condition of the experience. “Beauty is either a right for everyone, or it is a right for no one,” Masucci concludes."
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