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Means my daughter, who is visually impaired yet is entering college as a visual arts student, can zoom in on these with her tablet and appreciate those details that a regularly-sighted person takes for granted.

Thanks for this, I am going to point her to this collection.



Yeah, it means access for a lot of people who would otherwise, for many reasons, not have any access at all. Access, also, to many items that are not ordinarily on public display. It is true that seeing an art object as a physical object can enhance your understanding of it in a way that a photo of it doesn't, and I don't think that archives like this will replace that experience. But many can still benefit from it.




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