Tactile copies of the paintings of Russian artists will appear in the Perm Art Gallery

  • Visual description: photo in color. On the grey background, in the center, there is a volumetric figure of the Mother of God with a halo over her head. She bowed her head and turned her sight to a child, clinging to her knees.
  • 2 August 2022

Fire paintings from the collection of the Perm Art Gallery have got their tactile copies. The blind and visually impaired visitors will be able to study them starting from August 4, 2022.

The models were created after the Perm Art Gallery won the competition “Creation of copies of museum exhibits” in the “Special View” program by “Art, Science and Sport” Charity Foundation, organized by Alisher Usmanov.

The copies, as well as the labels printed in Braille, belong to five paintings, created by famous artists: “Portrait of A.S. Stroganov” by Johann Baptiste Lampi, “Madonna and Child” by Fyodor Bruni, “Girl at the granary” by Vasily Maximov, “Tops of the pines” by Ivan Shishkin, “The portrait” by Lyubov Popova. The 3d replicas of the paintings were crafted in Mikhail and Olga Shu’s studio.

The museum will as well place a stand, where it will be possible to study by touch the materials used by a painter: brushes, palette knife, color palette, piece of the frame and canvas on the stretcher.

The Perm Art Gallery already hosts projects called “The museum of senses” and “The touch”, addressed to visually impaired visitors. Through these initiatives the relief copies of Russian artists’ artworks were produced — the adapted graphic images printed on a special thermal printer.

The Perm Art Gallery was one of the winners of the grant competition to create tactile copies of the exhibits, which took place in the end of 2021.

Earlier, the History Museum in Sochi organized a tactile exhibition “Touch the Sochi history”. The museum’s archeological collection contains artifacts from different eras: from Middle Paleolithic to Middle Ages.

Besides, the collection of the Sarmatian Gold from Orenburg Governor’s Regional Museum has become available for sightless and visually impaired people. Such signature exhibits as the ceremonial sword, the mirror and other objects dating back to V-IV centuries BС have got their copies, that the visitors can study by touch.

Both museums received the replicas of the objects from their collections through winning the above mentioned competition “Creation of copies of museum exhibits” in the “Special View” program by “Art, Science and Sport” foundation.