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The Guggenheim Is Proving That Museums Aren’t Just to Be Seen The famed institution — and others — are reaching out to audiences who cannot connect to art in typical ways. A participant in a Mind’s Eye program at the Guggenheim Museum, in 2019. The program, which serves the blind and partially sighted, includes a sensory tour featuring the actors Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bobby Canavale and BD Wong.Credit.David Heald/Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York This article is part of our latest Several eminent New Yorkers were by my side on a recent visit to the Guggenheim Museum. “From bottom to top, the building is like a crescendo,” the actress Maggie Gyllenhaal told me as I climbed the rotunda’s massive, spiraling walkway. Later, I ran my fingers along the bumpy edge of the footpath’s low outer wall. “The highest overlook may be the most tactile spot in the whole space,” Ms. Gyllenhaal said.

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