Brooklands Museum in Weybridge last week celebrated winning first prize in a competition to design a book for blind and partially sighted children.

Surrey schools and libraries are set to benefit from the books, which bring museum and gallery displays alive through touch and smell.

Michael Sands, who is a volunteer at the car and aviation museum, helped design the winning book with input from visitors.

The book, aimed at children aged between seven and 11-years-old, looks in particular at aviation and uses different materials to illustrate the various parts of the plane.

Museum education manager Virginia Price said: “We had interesting training sessions with other museum members, where we worked with people with disabilities to see how we should best develop the book.

“We decided to join the project because it was such a worthwhile cause and really educational. We were delighted to win.” Rails The competition entries were made in workshops by families and volunteers at eight Surrey museums and galleries.

The books will be taken to Surrey schools to be used by visually impaired children and children with learning difficulties, after being displayed in Waterstones bookshop in Farnham until Saturday, February 6.

The project was funded and co-ordinated by the Surrey Museums Consultative Committee, an organisation working on behalf of Surrey museums with Surrey County Council and district and borough councils.

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