Nina Levent is executive director of Art Beyond Sight Collaborative in New York City, part of Art Education for the Blind. Art Beyond Sight is dedicated to making the visual arts a vital part of the lives of visually-impaired people.

Alvaro Pascual-Leone, M.D., Ph.D., is professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School; Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation; Program Director of the Harvard-Thorndike Clinical Research Unit; and an Attending Neurologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - all in Boston. He is a practicing behavioral neurologist and movement disorders specialist.

Introduction
Nina Levent & Alvaro Pascual-Leone

Part I: Museums & Touch
Chapter 1: Please DO Touch the Exhibits! Interactions between Visual Imagery and Haptic Perception
Simon Lacey & K. Sathian
Chapter 2: "First Hand," not "First-eye" Knowledge: Bodily Experience in Museums
Francesca Bacci & Francesco Pavani
Chapter 3: Art-Making as Multisensory Engagement: Case Studies from The Museum of Modern Art
Carrie McGee &Francesca Rosenberg
Chapter 4: Multi-sensory Engagement with Real Nature Relevant to Real Life
Molly Steinwald, Melissa A. Harding, & Richard V. Piacentini
Chapter 5: Touch and Narrative in Art and History Museums
Nina Levent & Lynn McRainey

Part II: Museums & Sound
Chapter 6: A Brain Guide to Sound Galleries
Stephen R. Arnott & Claude Alain
Chapter 7: Ephemeral, Immersive, Invasive: Sound as Curatorial Theme 1966-2013
Seth Cluett
Chapter 8: Soundwalking the Museum: A Sonic Journey through the Visual Display
Salomé Voegelin.
Chapter 9: The Role of Sensory and Mot