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‘It’s weird’: a day at the museum helping colour-blind guests see pink
Chau Chak Wing Museum is Australia’s first to offer visitors colour-vision-enhancing glasses. So what happens when one man tries them on?
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Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum is offering colour-blind visitors special colour-enhancing glasses to view the exhibits. Photograph: Louise M Cooper/The University of Sydney
Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum is offering colour-blind visitors special colour-enhancing glasses to view the exhibits. Photograph: Louise M Cooper/The University of Sydney
Katie Cunningham
Sat 4 Jun 2022 16.00 EDTLast modified on Sat 4 Jun 2022 16.02 EDT
There are a few everyday situations that 24-year-old Mason Suljic struggles in. He can’t always read graphs, charts or maps very well. The red squiggly line that alerts you to spelling mistakes looks different to him. Selecting pencil colours or clothes is always a gamble, as is trying to pick sufficiently ripened fruit at the supermarket.
Like around one in 12 men and one in 200 women, Suljic has red-green colour-blindness – or, more accurately, is colour vision deficient – which makes it hard to tell the difference between some hues and reduces the overall [...]