Sensory workshops for people with visual disabilities

When: October 18, 2026, from 12:00 to 13:00
Audience: adolescents from 16 years of age, adults
admission: PLN 20, online sales, assistants — free admission
meeting place: at the entrance to the gardens

What can we discover by knowing the world through touch? How do texture, shape and material affect our feelings? We invite you to the workshops, during which we will explore a variety of objects and textures, discovering the relationships between art, nature and the everyday environment.

We'll look at what's smooth, rough, soft, or rough, and then look for associations — does a given texture evoke a walk in the woods, an urban sidewalk, or something else entirely? Touch will become the starting point for a conversation about how we perceive the world around us.
Direct contact with objects will allow you to stop at the details and experience them here and now. There will be time to explore on your own, trigger your imagination and share your impressions — at your own pace.

Leading:
Katarzyna Bury — art historian, museologist, curator of exhibitions. He works at the Krakow Museum. For many years he has been concerned with the accessibility of museum activities, especially for people with visual disabilities. Author of numerous audio descriptions of works of art and museum exhibitions, as well as scenarios of workshops for people with special needs. She developed, among others, a sightseeing path for people with disabilities at the exhibition “Podgórze Wojciech Weiss” and was the curator of the sensory exhibition “Sensual City” at the Krakow Museum. Co-organizer of workshops on the creation of Krakow cribs for people with visual disabilities. He is also involved in the preparation of tactile aids using traditional craft and artistic techniques.

The event refers to the recently realized exhibition “Soon Everything Will Change” at Wawel, which deals with the theme of the relationship of man with nature and the surrounding space.