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'Image whisperers' bring vision to the blind at Red Cross museum

  • The Red Cross museum in Geneva offers an image prompter service to visually impaired visitors.
  • The museum created the service to enable diversity, equity, and inclusion for all visitors.
  • Specially trained 'image whisperers' guide blind visitors, describing exhibits in detail, like a motorcycle made of cigarette packs and a Henry Dunant sculpture.
  • Alice Baronnet, a museum spokeswoman, underwent training last October with nearly 30 others to become an image prompter, saying, "It's very important for us to be as inclusive as possible."
  • The 'image whisperers' provide a richer, more specialized experience, encouraging museum visits; Antoine Possa hopes companies reinstate inclusion policies, stating, 'That's not how we move the world forward.
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'Image whisperers' bring vision to the blind at Red Cross museum

"They are our eyes," said Karin happily after releasing the arm of one of the specialised "image whisperers" guiding her and other blind people around Geneva's Red Cross museum.

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nationalworld.com broke the news in on Tuesday, April 1, 2025.
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