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

Independence

For one of the participants, her best museum experience was with the original exhibition of “Washington: Symbol and City”: “Because it was an opportunity to be absolutely and completely independent. I could do all of it myself - - the wayfinding, the audio information, the reading, the examining of the objects and going on to the next thing. And it was just fun to not have anybody between me and the museum experience.” Independence in thought was also mentioned. Participants value succinct information to which they can assign meaning based on their own frame of reference.