We offer tailored tours for people who are Blind or Partially Sighted across the Oxford University Gardens, Libraries and Museums
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 for 2023:
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.
Thursday 9th February, 11am - 12 noon: **Change of Venue!** Mystery Objects at the Museum of Natural History.
Thursday 23rd February, 11am - 12 noon: Rebellious Bodies at the Ashmolean Museum
Explore objects and paintings through the lens of disability, neurodiversity and chronic illness on this tour.
*This is an additional offer to our normal programme.
Thursday 9th March, 11am - 12 noon: A Fresh Look at Nature - Redisplaying the Museum at the Museum of Natural History
From a gigantic Japanese spider crab to meteorites as old as the solar system, Exhibitions Officer Scott Billings will take us through the new exhibits which reveal the history of planet Earth and evolution of Life, as we know it.
Thursday 20th April, 11am - 12 noon: Connected Planet at the Museum of Natural History
Earth and life exist in delicate balance. Explore the oceans, land, and air around us to witness this dynamic connection and see what happens when the balance tips.
Thursday 11th May, 11am - 12 noon: Topic TBC at the History of Science Museum
Thursday 8th June, 11am - 12 noon: Summer Stroll at the Harcourt Arboretum
Join us for a gentle sensory walk around our collection of rare and endangered trees from around the world.
Thursday 15th June, 11am - 12 noon: Medieval Murals at St. Mary's Church, Chalgrove
We’ve been working with St Mary’s Church to create some audio descriptions and tactile images of their historic medieval paintings. Join us for a tour of these amazing murals
*This is an additional offer to our normal programme.
Thursday 13th July, 11am - 12 noon: Labyrinth - Knossos Myth and Reality at the Ashmolean Museum
Discover the palace of Knossos, and the search for the labyrinth, in this major exhibition featuring over 100 objects which have never left Crete and Greece before, alongside discoveries from the Ashmolean's Sir Arthur Evans Archive.
Thursday 10th August, 11am - 12 noon: Topic TBC at the Pitt Rivers Museum
Thursday 14th September, 11am - 12 noon: Gifts and Books at the Weston Library
Curator Nicholas Price will be taking us around this new exhibition.
Thursday 12th October, 11am - 12 noon: Collecting Covid at the History of Science Museum
Explore what life a scientist was like during the pandemic.
Thursday 9th November, 11am - 12 noon: Glorious Glasshouses at the Botanic Garden
Come and travel the globe as we pass from tropical jungle and oozing swamp to desert and alpine environments in our tour of the Botanic Garden’s historic glasshouses.
Thursday 14th December, 11am - 12 noon: Topic TBC at the Pitt Rivers Museum