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Accessibility Programs and Resources

The Museum is committed to making its collection, buildings, programs, and services accessible to all audiences. Learn more about services and accessibility for visitors with disabilities at The Met Fifth Avenue.

For visitors who are blind or partially sighted

Picture This!

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Enjoy works of art through detailed descriptions, touch, and other activities.
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Seeing Through Drawing

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Explore the Museum’s collection and learn innovative drawing techniques through workshops that include experimentation with materials, verbal descriptions, and creative response to works of art.
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Seeing Through Drawing—Lillian Bassman: Bazaar & Beyond

April 18 11:00 AMThe Met Fifth Avenue

For visitors who are D/deaf or hard of hearing

Met Signs

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Explore works of art through engaging conversations in the galleries. In ASL without voice interpretation.
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Met Signs in the Studio

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Explore works of art through engaging conversations in the galleries, then continue to the classroom for an art-making activity. In ASL without voice interpretation.
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Met Signs Tour—The Cloisters Gardens

May 16 1:00 PMThe Met Cloisters

For visitors with dementia and their care partners

Met Escapes

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Take a break from the everyday with discussions about art, art making, and other interactive and multisensory activities.
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Met Escapes

March 24 2:00 PMThe Met Fifth Avenue
A group of visitors sit inside a gallery facing a Met educator who is pointing to a painting out of our view.

Met Escapes—Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck

April 21 2:00 PMThe Met Fifth Avenue
A group of visitors sit inside a gallery facing a Met educator who is pointing to a painting out of our view.

Met Escapes—Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship

May 19 2:00 PMThe Met Fifth Avenue

Met Memory Cafe

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Enjoy an afternoon of art with conversations, activities, and refreshments. 
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Met Memory Cafe

April 6 2:00 PMThe Met Fifth Avenue

For visitors with intellectual/developmental disabilities and autism

Discoveries

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These tours and workshops welcome kids, teens, and adults with a range of intellectual/developmental disabilities and those on the autism spectrum.
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Discoveries (Ages 5–13)—Arts of Africa

March 22 11:00 AMThe Met Fifth Avenue
Two visitors sit at a table inside of a studio classroom at The Met. They are working together on a wire sculpture.

Discoveries (Ages 14–22)—Arts of Africa

March 22 11:00 AMThe Met Fifth Avenue
Two visitors sit at a table inside of a studio classroom at The Met. They are working together on a wire sculpture.

Discoveries (Ages 23+)—Arts of Africa

March 22 2:00 PMThe Met Fifth Avenue

Access Programs at the Museum are made possible by Mary Jaharis and MetLife Foundation.

Major support is also provided by the Filomen M. D'Agostino Foundation.

Additional support is provided by the Estate of Doris Alperdt, Mellon Foundation, an Anonymous Foundation, The Moody Endowment, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc., Renate, Hans & Maria Hofmann Trust, Allene Reuss Memorial Trust, Jane B. Wachsler, The J.M. Foundation, William G. and Helen C. Hoffman Foundation, and The Murray G. and Beatrice H. Sherman Charitable Trust.