Strengthening 'Cultural Accessibility'... Leeum Museum of Art Invites Multicultural Families and Introduces Colorblind Correction Glasses

Family Diversity and Community Exchange Focused Event
Enhancing Viewing Experience and Creating Barrier-Free Environment

The Leeum Museum of Art announced on the 24th that it held a museum invitation viewing event for over 200 parents and children from multicultural (foreign) families on the museum's closed day.

At the Leeum Museum of Art's event inviting multicultural families, attendees are enjoying the exhibition "Kang Seokyung: Willow Book Nightingale." Photo by Leeum Museum of Art

This event focused on family diversity and community exchange, inviting over 200 members from multicultural families representing more than 20 countries. It was held on the 23rd in cooperation with eight organizations, including family centers from Yongsan-gu, Mapo-gu, Gangbuk-gu, Seongdong-gu, and Eunpyeong-gu. Visitors viewed the 'Ancient Art Permanent Exhibition' and the special exhibitions 'Kang Seokyeongjeon' and 'Kim Beomjeon.'

During the viewing, visitors were assisted to enjoy a free and comfortable experience by using the 'Digital Guide,' which provides information about the exhibitions and museum spaces. The 'Digital Guide' is available in four languages: Korean, English, Chinese, and Japanese.

During the event, a multilingual real-time text interpretation service was provided through a generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology-based multilingual text interpretation solution, supporting eight languages: English, Arabic, Vietnamese, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Chinese, and Thai.

At the Leeum Museum of Art's event inviting multicultural families, attendees are enjoying a performance by the Samsung Philharmonic Orchestra.
[Photo by Leeum Museum of Art]

Additionally, a special performance by the Samsung Philharmonic Orchestra, composed of employees from Samsung affiliates, was held in the Leeum Museum auditorium, sharing empathy beyond language and cultural barriers.

Furthermore, starting from the 24th, the Leeum Museum of Art will offer color vision deficiency correction glasses, which were first introduced at the Hoam Museum of Art, providing visitors with a new experience.

Earlier in May, the Hoam Museum of Art became the first museum in Korea to provide and lend color vision deficiency correction glasses free of charge to assist visitors with color blindness or color weakness in viewing exhibitions after its reopening. This initiative has been recognized as a new precedent for enhancing the quality of visitors' experiences and creating a 'Barrier Free' viewing environment.

The Leeum Museum of Art is introducing corrective glasses to assist visitors with color vision deficiencies, such as color blindness or color weakness, in appreciating artworks. The photo shows the corrective glasses previously introduced at the Hoam Art Museum.
[Photo by Leeum Museum of Art]

Before introducing the correction glasses, the museum collaborated with a domestic preliminary social enterprise specializing in developing color vision deficiency correction glasses. After months of research, they developed lenses with transparency suitable for the exhibition hall's internal color temperature of 3000 to 4000 Kelvin (K) and indoor viewing conditions, which help in appreciating artworks.

Ryu Mun-hyung, CEO of the Samsung Foundation of Culture, said, "Through this invitation event, we hope that participants from diverse cultural backgrounds can experience and appreciate culture and arts, understand each other, interact, and settle as members of the community."

The Samsung Foundation of Culture continues various efforts to enhance cultural accessibility for visitors with diverse physical characteristics and to create a viewing environment that anyone can enjoy without barriers. These efforts include the digital guide, production of sign language explanation videos for collections, expansion of wheelchair seats in the auditorium, and hosting the accessibility program 'Beyond Senses.'

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