Exhibit Design Relating to Low Vision and Blindness: What Visitors with Vision Loss Want Museums and Parks to Know about Effective Communication

Emotional impact

Some museum or park experiences have emotional impact. A participant described her visit to the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor where one of the veterans accompanied her on a tour: “ . . . he was describing it to me, and then he started sharing his personal experience. And so for me, that entire experience was amazing because he was talking about the ship but really describing it in a way I don't think anybody else could have described it to me. And then he took me to the marble wall that had the names carved in it. And he was like here, touch the names. These are the names.”