Culture conveniently from home: booming listening of blind people!

Culture conveniently from home: booming listening of blind people!

In times when access to cultural experiences is not always easy, there is a remarkable initiative that takes care of the blind and visually impaired person. On June 15, 2025, the FLZ that free hearing tours are offered for this group. These offers are generously supported by the Aktion Mensch and the Cultural Authority of Hamburg and make it possible for people like the 61-year-old Gertrud Feld from Saarbrücken to conveniently experience various museum highlights from home.

These tours, which not only open up new horizons to the participants, but also represent a real asset, cost around 200,000 euros. But the financing is only half secured - around 105,000 euros come from the financing mentioned, and the rest must be applied by donations from private individuals, foundations and companies. The team behind the hearing tours hopes for a good knack for the procurement of funds.

diverse experiences from home

Gertrud Feld has already visited numerous remarkable places, such as the Helmut Schmidt House in Hamburg and the famous Museum Island in Berlin. She particularly appreciates the opportunity to enjoy cultural experiences even with a cup of coffee. The specially trained guides ensure that the tours remain free of stimulus. Corinna Fehrenbach, a museum leader from Cologne, emphasizes that she focuses on a few but important objects to explain them in detail.

The concentration during these tours is of great importance because there are no feedback from the participants. Fehrenbach, who designs her work with a lot of dedication, has found that it often gestures more when it comes to telephone, which can lead to a small irritation for some of the museum. Nevertheless, these guided tours are a sign that culture can be made accessible to everyone - and that is the goal after all, is it?

use of modern technologies

In addition to these exciting tours, new digital approaches are also required. Nowadays, the museum can benefit from the possibilities of media landscape, especially through the use of YouTube. To this end, there is an overview of the cookies used on the website of the German Blind and Visually Impaired Association (DBSV), which are optimized for user-friendliness. Information on this can be read at dbsv

at a time when technical progress continuously progresses, it is particularly important to promote cultural participation. The commitment to accessibility in the cultural area is not only a necessity, but also an important step towards an inclusive society. It remains to be hoped that more sponsors and supporters will jump on the train and strengthen the initiatives that enable people like Gertrud Feld to discover the world of culture up close - even from the sofa.