For Blind and partly sighted visitors
Contacts
To attend an event you are interested in, please contact us at blind@garagemca.org
Garage runs regular events for blind and partially sighted visitors, including tours with the use of tactile models and audio descriptions of works, masterclasses for children, teenagers, and adults, film screenings with audio description, and other educational and creative events.
The list of current events can be found below, in the section Events for Blind and Partially Sighted Visitors.
Garage materials on working with blind and partially sighted visitors
You can learn more about the principles of our work with partially sighted and blind visitors, developed by the staff of Inclusive Programs Department, by downloading the collection of articles Experiencing the Museum: Working with Blind and Partially Sighted Visitors at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (PDF, 11.6 MB, in Russian). Information for the professional community can be found on the platform Experiencing the Museum. Diversity and Inclusion.
Accessibility of Garage Library to the blind and partially sighted
Garage Library, located at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, holds no books in braille, but blind and partially sighted visitors are invited to use a tablet with the inbuilt text-to-speech program Voice Dream Reader and the screen reader VoiceOver. To use the tablet, please ask the administrator at the Library entrance.
The app Voice Dream Reader allows the user to read any book published by Garage. The full list of books is available here. To ask whether a particular book is available in the Library, please contact us at openmuseum@garagemca.org before your visit.
To use the library, visitors must obtain a library pass and sign a form granting the Museum the right to process personal data.
Getting here by metro
If you plan to travel to the Museum by metro, you can use the assistance service provided by the Moscow Metro Passenger Mobility Center. Assistance is offered for the whole of your journey, from the station entrance to the information desk at Garage.
You can request support and obtain more detailed information by calling the support numbers +7 495 622 73 41 and +7 800 250 73 41 (calls are free), via the Moscow Metro mobile app or by filling out the form on the website.
If you are planning to travel to the Museum on your own, you can use the audio description guide or Word text guide that will help you get from Oktyabrskaya Metro to Garage.
Before your visit, you can take a look at the social story (PDF, 4.7 MB) about visiting Garage.
- 12Oct 2023Presentation of the app I’m Going to the Museum11:30 —
13:30Garage AuditoriumFree, registration required - 30July 2023Meeting about the book El Deafo by Cece Bell in Russian Sign Language15:00 —
16:300+ Reading ZoneFree, registration required - 4June 2023Reading of On the Edge of the World and Masterclass Message to a Friend with Teacher Viktoria Shcherbenko15:00 —
16:00Garage Museum of Contemporary ArtFree, registration required - An Architectural Walk in Gorky Park for Blind and Partially Sighted Visitors22 May —
30 Sep 2023Garage Museum of Contemporary ArtFree, registration required - Immersion in Gaming for Beginners Course for Blind and Visually Impaired Visitors1 Apr —
22 Apr 2023Computer class "The World Gone By"Free, registration required - Inclusive textile course Embroidery Stories18 Feb —
27 May 2023Garage Central GalleryFree - Architectural walks in Gorky Park adapted for partially sighted and blind visitors17 Aug —
21 Sep 2022Garage Museum of Contemporary ArtFree, registration required - 9July 2022Children's workshop: A Summer’s Day Sculpture13:00 —
14:30Garage Kids' StudioFree, registration required