For Visitors Who Are Deaf
Programs in Sign Language and with Sign Language Interpretation
Gallery talks are presented in Sign Language or are Sign Language–interpreted on a regular basis. Search the calendar for upcoming programs with Sign Language interpretation or for Met Signs programs presented only in ASL. These programs are free with Museum admission. We regret that gallery talks cannot accommodate groups.
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Programs with Sign Language are intended primarily for the Deaf community. ASL students may attend, but we do not sign attendance sheets.
Audio Guide
Transcripts in standard and large print are available for all Audio Guide programming and are free to visitors who are Deaf.
Gallery Talk
Exhibition Tour—African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde
Wednesday, April 10, 10:00–11:00 a.m.
Free with Museum admission
Gallery Talk
Tapestry Materials and Techniques in the Islamic World
Thursday, April 11, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Free with Museum admission
Conversation with a Curator or Conservator
Conversation with a Curator—Limoges Enamels
Friday, April 12, 2:00–2:45 p.m.
Free with Museum admission
Gallery Talk
Domestic Environments in the Italian Renaissance
Saturday, April 13, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Free with Museum admission
Free Lecture
Conversation
Sunday, April 14, 3:00–4:00 p.m.
Free with Museum admission
Gallery Talk
Portraits in Korean Art
Wednesday, April 17, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Free with Museum admission
For Visitors with Developmental and Learning Disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
Discoveries
These workshops welcome children and adults with a range of abilities and learning styles together with family and friends. All can enjoy these multisensory workshops that include tactile opportunities and art-making activities. Explore a different theme in each session.
For Visitors Who Are Blind or Partially Sighted
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Scheduled Programs
Picture This! Workshops for Adults Who Are Blind or Partially Sighted Awaken the senses in workshops that make works of art accessible through detailed descriptions, touch, and other activities. Registration required.
Seeing Through Drawing With the Museum's collection as inspiration, learn about innovative techniques that make drawing accessible in this class for adults. Registration required.
Picture This! Programs for Families with Children Who Are Blind or Partially Sighted For families with children and teens ages 5–17 Explore works of art in accessible ways—detailed descriptions, touch, and other activities—that use all the senses. Create your own work of art to take home. Registration required.
For a full schedule of programs for blind or partially sighted visitors, download Programs For Visitors Who Are Blind or Partially Sighted (PDF).
Programs by Request
Touch Collection Examine through touch a wide range of objects—from a first-century Roman marble foot to a twentieth-century Eskimo sculpture of a mother and child. Touch Collection sessions are available to blind or partially sighted visitors of all ages, individually or in groups. To request a session, call 212-650-2010 or email access@metmuseum.org.
Verbal Imaging Tours Experience the permanent collection or exhibitions with a guide who describes works of art in great detail. To request a verbal imaging tour, call 212-650-2010, or emailaccess@metmuseum.org.
Guided Tour: In Touch with Ancient Egypt Guides invite blind or partially sighted visitors and their companions to explore through touch six ancient Egyptian sculptures of pharaohs, gods, and goddesses. Visitors may also take this tour independently (see Self-Guided Tour: In Touch with Ancient Egypt).