Colorblind guests at SMU’s Meadows Museum now have access to EnChroma glasses
The Meadows Museum at SMU will now offer EnChroma glasses to make its collection of Spanish art more accessible to visitors who are colorblind, according to a news release from the museum.
The glasses, which help people with red-green color vision deficiency to see a a broader spectrum of hues, can be loaned to visitors so they can see more vibrancy in the art at the Meadows Museum, according to the release. The museum has one pair of glasses sized for children, two sized to fit over regular eyeglasses and one regular adult-sized pair.
For those with colorblindness, purple may appear as blue, red as brown, gray as pink and green and yellow as similar colors. The optical filters in EnChroma glasses increase the differences and separation between color channels to allow the wearer to view colors more accurately.
“It is difficult for most of us to imagine a world of art lacking color — the lush green of a summer landscape, for instance, or a cardinal’s crimson cassock,” the museum’s interim director and curator, Amanda W. Dotseth, said in the release. “We are excited to bring this technology to our visitors and hope that it will encourage those who may have cast aside the notion of visiting an art museum because of this condition to try it out.”
EnChroma, the company that created and produces the glasses, estimates 1.25 million Texans have color vision deficiency.