Please touch!

Works of art specifically conceived for blind persons have a special place. These mulitmedial sculptures by artists like Thomas Baumann, Stefan Gyurko, Maria Hannenkamp, Anna Jermolaewea, Werner Reiterer, Constanze Ruhm or Emil Siemeister unite art and information. Intended equally for the blind or deaf and the sighted, they create sensual levels of perception beyond the world of visual experience.

A sighted person sees such an object - always at the same time a visible work of art - quite differently than does a blind person. For the one the optical character of the object may dominate whereas for the other the haptic or acoustic qualities stand in the foreground.

A new awareness of art can develop from these confrontations. The main intention and task of the Admont Monastery Museum is above all to make current art accessible to visually disadvantaged persons. On the other hand, the sighted should become aware of the quite different world of the unsighted.

Important for the Monastery is the cooperation with representatives of art and culture, education, science, medicine and of blind and partly sighted on the national and international levels. New works are created every year under the “MADE FOR ADMONT” programmes for this specific part of the collection.