ASL Tour: Rubin Museum of Art, Friday 1/21 at 7 pm
We love it when museums offer programming for visitors with disabilities. Often this includes scheduled live sign-interpreted tours for the American Sign Language community, and visual description tours for people who are blind or visually impaired. Of course, we’re also delighted when museums and destinations include Keen Guides for when people come at times when scheduled, accessible programming isn’t taking place!
With that said, we’re going to let you know about upcoming scheduled programming on this blog! The first one is timely:
Rubin Museum of Art 
TONIGHT, Friday, January 21 at 7 pm.
Exhibit: “Grain of Emptiness” On view until April 11, 2011.
Description from the Rubin Museum of Art website:
ASL Tours at the Rubin Museum afford our visitors who are deaf or hard of hearing an opportunity to learn about the culture, history, religions, and sacred art of the Himalayan region. Join Deaf guide Guthrie Nutter as he conducts a free gallery tour in ASL, exploring the exhibition Grain of Emptiness on the museum’s 4th floor. Voice interpretation will not be provided.
Read New York Times Review.
Address
150 West 17th Street,
New York City, NY 10011
Free admission every Friday evening from 6pm – 10 pm.
If you go, let us know an interesting or a fun fact that you learned!
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about 1 year ago
Just discovering your blog today -nice!
Wodering if you can give us all some more information on your products? Apps? Ball park costs? And…
When you say ASL for museum tours, what about inclusion of quality full captioning for so many deaf, deafened, those with hearing loss, those learning English, and many more who need it? (who do not use ASL)
thanks for your accessibility services, and look forward to learning much more.
about 1 year ago
Yes, you can learn more about our free mobile applications here: http://www.keenguides.com/mobile. We are about to release an Android application in the next few weeks. If you have an iPhone or an iTouch, you can download the app here.
Our website (http://www.keenguides.com) displays these videos for people who wish to view these at home, as they figure out what places they’d like to visit, or come with knowledge already in mind!
This post was to let people in NYC know about the availability of the live ASL-interpreted tour, as these types of tours are not always available!
The lack of regularly-available accessible tours is what got me started with Keen Guides. You can visit (http://www.keenguides.com/about) and read the story. We’re particularly interested in helping people of all abilities have an independent and engaging experience in a museum through captioned video tours. It’s in our sights to include video description for people who are blind or have low vision, as well as foreign language subtitles.