Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art has debuted a new accessibility feature – EnChroma glasses – that bring the vibrant colors of paintings and other art exhibits to life for colorblind people.
EnChroma glasses, specially engineered for people with a color vision deficiency, compensate for colorblindness and reveal colors that the wearer has never seen before. The museum received four pairs of the glasses, which retail for between $269 and $429, as a donation from the manufacturer.
Brad Ingles, the museum’s memberships and community partnerships manager, raised the idea. In speaking about his own experiences with colorblindness in art museums, Ingles reflected that “Every single person was experiencing what the artist was talking about, except for me.” Now, with the EnChroma glasses, he and museum visitors can experience artwork as the artist intended.
OUR TAKE: EnChroma glasses are an exciting new accessibility tool that can bring a wider range of colors to colorblind people, and art museums are the perfect place to debut. As more museums make EnChroma glasses available to museum goers, travelers can look forward to more vibrant and colorful experiences!
To read more about this exciting development, read the full article in Hyperallergic.
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