Posts about Blindness

Yellow ribbon with black dots: Blindness is the topic of the Dialog Museum in Frankfurt.

Germany. Frankfurt: Trading places with the blind

6.01.2014

A Dialogue in the Dark

I had decided to join a group on a guided tour through a museum that functions vise versa to the regular ones: here the exhibits are invisible; they only become apparent to the touch. The guide cannot rely on his eye-sight, he has been blind since childhood. Still he convinces me that I will be safe in his care these next 90 minutes of absolute darkness. For more reassurance, he takes my hand and strokes it softly. I am surrounded by a merciless sea of black. No ray of light gives away where I am.

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