Venezuelan Museums Throw Open Their Doors to the Disabled

Following a pilot project carried out in 2006, the Venezuelan Culture Ministry has launched a programme, 'Creating Without Limits', to draw in people who are blind, deaf, or suffer from mental or neurological disabilities to take part in the creative and artistic enjoyment that museums have to offer.
Luanda Barrios, from the state Institute of the Arts of Images and Space (IAIME), told IPS that 'in this first phase, the programme is aimed at young disabled people so that they can interact and come to grips with the plastic arts.'
Later 'we hope to get the young people interested in contemplating the works, and eventually in exploring creativity,' said Barrios. Last year, pilot projects involved children from two private and two public schools in Caracas, and this year the programme will be extended to the entire country."