Live audio descriptive tours at the National Maritime Museum Friday 11 April and Tuesday 22 April both at 2pm Meet at the Sammy Ofer Wing reception (Park entrance)
These events are free and last approximately 1 hour
Turner’s dramatic depictions of sunsets, storms and shipwrecks revolutionised maritime art and have since become some of Britain’s best loved paintings. This landmark exhibition celebrates his lifelong fascination with the sea, bringing together an outstanding collection of masterpieces from around the world.
Blind and partially sighted visitors are invited to join art historian and experienced audio-describer Bridget Crowley who will bring this exhibition to life with two fascinating tours of this special exhibition at the heart of maritime Greenwich. The first will focus on Turner’s work and the second will consider his contemporaries.
Andrew Marr tempts us to explore the show in his review published in the Mail on 26 November 2013: ‘This is an astonishing show. But it’s a show about Britain as well as about the painter. It tells the story of a people surrounded by salt water, fishing, trading and fighting, and marked by their relationship with the sea as much as with the land. Warm and safe in the gallery, the viewer huddles among huge storms and flinches at flying spray. It’s quite an experience.‘