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Please touch the fine art: Museums embrace a hands-on approach

Ever wanted to wrap yourself in a soft sculpture or run your hands across a canvas? From scratch-n-sniff paintings to 3D pictures paired with sounds, multisensory art is a small but steadily growing niche in the museum world, providing more artists with opportunities to consider different ways to help viewers interact with and be moved by their art. 

In 2015, for example, London’s Tate Britain Museum featured “Sensorium,” which included tastes, sounds, and smells designed to trigger feelings or make certain colors seem more intense. In

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