00:00🎵Instrumental Music Plays🎵
00:30🎵Instrumental Music Plays🎵
00:43I'm Jackie McKinnon from Glasgow.
00:45I think it's a fabulous way for especially young kids as well to see.
00:49It's so immersive, it's just good.
00:52It's quite enlightening and it brings joy.
00:54I would say to anybody go.
00:56There's all ages, a lot of people which is good with special needs.
00:59And I think that is so important.
01:01And they were made very welcome.
01:03What I could see, there was a lot of help if they needed it.
01:07New technology, it could make things like the portraits blink or wink.
01:13There's a pipe, somebody smoking a pipe and there's tobacco lights up.
01:18And at first you're like, did that really move?
01:21Did that really blink?
01:22And then you start paying more attention.
01:25So yeah, it's all new technology.
01:27What did you think of the music it was involved in?
01:29Yeah, the music was soothing, actually it was quite calming.
01:33And then of course at the end, the music from Don McLean's Vincent
01:37which would bring a tear to a glass eye.
01:39It was good as well.
01:41Do you think the sensory value?
01:44Yes, it's really important.
01:48What's more important is for anybody with special needs,
01:52whether they're visible special needs or you just can't see them.
01:56For them to be able to come in and just be part of it all and just enjoy.
02:07My name is Rosemary McIlroy.
02:09I live in Glasgow.
02:11I took my son to this exhibition in Edinburgh.
02:14I think it was last year, it might even have been more than that.
02:17And he's non-verbal, autistic and it really suited him.
02:23It gave him access to art in a way that he wouldn't have.
02:27Normally if he goes into an art gallery, he'll quiz through it.
02:31But coming to an experience like this where it's immersive, it's all round him.
02:35He can take his time, he's got space.
02:38It's dark.
02:40He absolutely loved it.
02:42He was in no rush to leave.
02:44We had to go to the gift shop afterwards and he's never forgotten it.
02:47There was a young gentleman in a wheelchair.
02:50He was given all the space.
02:52There was lots for him to do.
02:54He was even taking part in the fun part.
02:56Like a photograph in the photo frames.
02:59He looked extremely happy.
03:01And he's still there looking happy.
03:04A wide variety of ages as well here today.
03:06Absolutely. Everyone.
03:08From the children, because it's the children's holidays.
03:10To old people.
03:11There's some seating so they could sit and enjoy it.
03:15People in wheelchairs.
03:17Absolutely happy.
03:18They can move around.
03:19They can be pushed around.
03:21What did you think of the exhibition itself?
03:23I haven't seen it before, but I do love Van Gogh.
03:26I've been to the museum in Amsterdam.
03:28Who doesn't love Van Gogh?
03:30The way it was put together, really lovely.
03:33I love the way they use his letters to his brother.
03:36Very well put together.
03:39Would you recommend people come?
03:41Most certainly.
03:42If they haven't seen it yet, I would definitely recommend it.
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