January 24, 2011
New Please Touch Museum Exhibition Explores the Ability in Disability
On Saturday, January 22, the Please Touch Museum launched a new exhibition called access/ABILITY. This traveling, interactive exhibit will be in Philadelphia through April 24, 2011. It was developed by the Boston Children’s Museum and was designed to show the similarities and differences in how each of us, with or without disabilities, goes places, communicates, has fun, and learns.
Visitors will have a chance to learn a few phrases in American Sign Language, type their name in Braille and try out a hand-pedaled bike. There’s also an opportunity for kids to interact with a puppet with cerebral palsy and try to navigate up a ramp and through a door in a wheelchair.
This exhibition was developed for children ages 5-12 and is accessible to strollers and wheelchairs, as well as to visitors who are visually impaired, hearing impaired and physically impaired. Admission to this special exhibition is included in the regular museum fee ($15 per person, babies ages 0-12 months are free).
A slideshow of pictures from the exhibition is embedded after the jump.
access/ABILITY at the Please Touch Museum
January 22-April 24, 2011
4231 Avenue of the Republic, Philadelphia
(215) 581-3181
pleasetouchmuseum.org
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