Accessibility Resources

Accessibility Resources

Cooper Hewitt offers in-depth accessible resources, including verbal description audio tours of exhibitions, audio description videos, and professional resources.

Explore Accessibility at Cooper Hewitt to learn more about visiting the museum. For current accessibility tours and programs, visit Accessibility Programs.

Professional Resources

These resources support all museum professionals in developing more inclusive and accessible content.

Accessible Virtual Programming Toolkit

This toolkit for museum professionals provides step-by-step guidance on how to develop and deliver virtual programs that are accessible for disabled participants.

Image Description Guidelines

These guidelines encourage museum staff from all departments to author image descriptions for digital content.

Verbal Description Audio Tours

Explore previous exhibitions at Cooper Hewitt through recorded verbal description audio-only tours, designed for visitors who are blind or have low vision.

Give Me A Sign Verbal Description Tour

Experience an audio-only version of Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols. Listeners will be able to hear all of the information presented in the exhibition, along with in-depth verbal descriptions of the images and objects on display. Approximately 40 minutes.

The Senses Verbal Description Tour

Ellen Lupton, co-curator of the exhibition The Senses: Design Beyond Vision, provides a descriptive audio tour through two dozen projects in the exhibition, with step-by-step guidance for visitors with blindness or low vision. Approximately 30 minutes.