Lou­is Braille — The Braille re­vo­lu­ti­on

Exact­ly 200 ye­ars ago, Lou­is Braille de­ve­lo­ped a ty­pe­face that si­gni­fi­cant­ly ch­an­ged the li­ves of blind peo­p­le around the world. The ex­hi­bi­ti­on in the Mu­se­um der Ar­bei­t’s Gra­phic Art Gal­lery brings this in­ge­nious yet simp­le in­ven­ti­on to life and shows why Braille has es­tab­lished its­elf as an in­ter­na­tio­nal stan­dard to this day. Vi­si­tors can ex­plo­re dif­fe­rent Braille scripts by touch and gain an in­sight in­to aids such as the groo­ved board and braille ma­chi­ne, which en­ab­led blind peo­p­le to read and wri­te then and now.

A spe­cial fo­cus is pla­ced on prac­ti­cal test­ing: the ex­hi­bi­ti­on in­vi­tes vi­si­tors to ex­pe­ri­ence Braille in the truest sen­se of the word. Th­rough the pre­sen­ta­ti­on of his­to­ri­cal and cur­rent ex­hi­bits, it be­co­mes clear how aids and wri­ting its­elf con­tri­bu­te to so­cial par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on. The show was crea­ted in co­ope­ra­ti­on wi­th the Ham­burg As­so­cia­ti­on for the Blind and Vi­sual­ly Im­pai­red and has be­en ex­pan­ded to in­clude new ex­hi­bits com­pared to the 2024 pre­sen­ta­ti­on. An­yo­ne in­te­res­ted in in­clu­si­on, ac­ces­si­bi­li­ty and the histo­ry of in­ge­nious ide­as will gain an im­pres­si­ve in­sight in­to the world of Braille.