Touch Tours for the Blind and Partially Sighted

 

Touch Tours take place on the 2nd Thursday of each month, usually from 11am - 12noon at various venues across the Oxford University Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM).

 

The tours are free but booking is essential.

 

Whether you are visiting for the first time or a regular visitor, and you can be sure of a warm welcome.

 

Below are the sessions we have coming up until June 2025:

 

How to book

To book onto a Touch Tour or for further information, please contact us at outreach@glam.ox.ac.uk / 01865 616998

Or you can call, text or WhatsApp Susan on 07595 612735.

 

A decorated saucer with a series of roundels inscribing the seven classical planets – Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn – set around a central medallion which contains a grotesque three-bodied and two-headed figure wrestling a dragon

Thursday 3rd April, 11am - 12 noon: Eastern Art Study Centre at the Ashmolean Museum

Come with us behind the scenes to discover some of the treasures of the Eastern Art collection.

A group of adults wearing headphones, listening to the radio on some antique equipment

Thursday 8th May, 11am - 12 noon: Listen In! at the Weston Library

Enjoy a tour of the exhibition with curator Beaty Rubens and discover how radio changed the home from the listener’s point of view.

ITALIAN RENAISSANCE at the Ashmolean MuseumThursday 12th June, 11am - 12 noon: Sensory Renaissance at the Pitt Rivers

Join us at the Pitt Rivers to investigate with researchers about how we learn about the past through our senses.