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In 1966, the first education gallery for the visually impaired (the first
of its type in an American museum) opened at the North Carolina Museum of
Art in Raleigh. I have vague memories of visiting this gallery as a grad
student; a brief description may be found in the recent NCMA publication,
Peggy Jo Kirby, The North Carolina Museum of Art: The First Fifty Years
1947-1997: a Selected Chronology. (Raleigh, The Museum, 1997.) The Mary
Duke Biddle Foundation funded the Gallery, which received national
attention at the time.
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Patricia Thompson
Head, Art Library
MSU Libraries
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 49924-1048
tel. 517-432-1874
fax 517-432-1445
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