Visit the museum’s most popular attractions.
The museum’s permanent galleries contain one of the world’s best collections of artifacts documenting education, literacy, and rehabilitation for people who are blind or visually impaired.
We will close on June 4, 2023, as we begin construction for our museum expansion. You can continue to explore our collection online. Be sure to stay tuned for more information about The Dot Experience, scheduled to open in 2025!
The museum’s permanent galleries contain one of the world’s best collections of artifacts documenting education, literacy, and rehabilitation for people who are blind or visually impaired.
Enhance your understanding of how people with visual impairments experience the world by exploring the history and evolution of the education of people who are blind in this audio tour. Explore tactile printing and writing, Louis Braille, geography, math, science, Helen Keller, and more.
Discover the history of the American Printing House for the Blind. Understand how it grew from a modest beginning in a school basement to the largest manufacturer of education products for people with vision loss in the world in this audio tour.
Get to know the leaders and the legends of the blindness field in the Hall of Fame. Some are people you’ve heard about all your lives and others deserve better recognition for their contributions.