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Valentin Haüy Museum

At the Valentin Haüy Museum, visitors explore a collection of objects, equipment and books documenting the history of education and tools for blind and partially sighted people from the 18th century to the present day. Visitors can touch and look at 18th-century embossed books, tablets, styluses, braille typewriters, geographical maps and adapted games, showing two centuries of ingenuity devoted to access to culture. The visit traces the evolution of tactile reading, from the first books printed in relief by Valentin Haüy to the six-dot system invented by Louis Braille, as well as the memory of key figures in the history of blindness.

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