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February 6, 2026

Italy gets creative as it works to make art accessible for blind people

By ALESSANDRA TARANTINO and ANDREW MEDICHINI
Associated Press

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Stefania Terre, left, touches a reproduction of Michelangelo’s sculpture La Pieta with Carmine Laezza, standing at right, during a tour for blind people at the Omero Tactile Museum in Ancona, Italy.

ROME (AP) — On a recent weeknight, long after the swarms of tourists had left Rome's Colosseum, a small group of people walked around outside the darkened amphitheater, pausing every so often to take in a new aspect of its history, art or architecture with every sense but sight.


 
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