Sensory garden

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A sensory garden in Bremen

A sensory garden is a garden or other plot specifically created to be accessible and enjoyable to visitors, both disabled and non-disabled. The purpose of such a provision is to provide individual and combined sensory opportunities for the user such that they may not normally experience.
A sensory garden, for example, may contain features accessible to the disabled individual such as: scented and edible plants, sculptures and sculpted handrails, water features designed to make sound and play over the hands, textured touch-pads, magnifying-glass screens, braille and audio induction loop descriptions. Depending on the user group, other provisions may integrate sound and music more centrally to combine the play needs of younger users with their sensory needs.
Many sensory gardens devote themselves to providing experience for multiple senses; those specialising in scent are sometimes called scented gardens, those specialising in music/sound are sound gardens where the equipment doubles up to provides an enhanced opportunity for strategic developmental, learning and educational outcomes.
Sensory Gardens usually have an enhanced infrastructure to permit wheelchair access and meet other accessibility concerns; the design and layout provides a stimulating journey through the senses, heightening awareness, and bringing positive learning experiences

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At Sensory Garden is a garden or other plot especially created to be accessible not to mention enjoyable to visitors, both disabled and non-disabled. The objective of such a sensory garden space is always to deliver individual and even mixed sensory journeys for those people who may not ever get to commonly encounter.
A sensory garden, for example, might contain features accessible for the disabled individual along the lines of: fragrant and edible plants, sculptures together with sculpted handrails, water features designed to create sound and play over the hands, distinctive touch-pads, magnifying-glass displays, braille and sound induction loop verbal descriptions. Depending on the persons in the group, other provisions may integrate sound and songs more centrally to incorporate the play requirements associated with children and younger users using their senses .
Quite a few sensory gardens devote themselves to providing experience to numerous senses; those specialising in scent are often called scented gardens, those specialising in sound and music are called sound gardens where the technology increases to provide an increased chance of strategic developmental, enlightening the visitor with informative benefits.
Sensory Gardens typically have an enhanced facilities to allow wheelchairs to get round and meet various other accessibility concerns; the design is set up so that it delivers a revitalizing experience via the senses, heightening consciousness and bringing together a whole range of beneficial learning experiences.

Welcome to a Sensory Garden

At Sensory Garden is a garden or other plot especially created to be accessible not to mention enjoyable to visitors, both disabled and non-disabled. The objective of such a sensory garden space is always to deliver individual and even mixed sensory journeys for those people who may not ever get to commonly encounter.
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Sculpture garden

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The Esplanade Ernest-Cormier, a sculpture garden in Montreal, with Melvin Charney's work Colonnes allégoriques. This sculpture garden consists of both an ensemble of free-standing sculptures and a large installation building "shell," mirroring the Canadian Centre for Architecture across the street, and through which visitors can move.

The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art has a sculpture Garden adjacent to Tehran's Laleh Park.

A sculpture garden is an outdoor garden dedicated to the presentation of sculpture, usually several permanently-sited works in durable materials in landscaped surroundings.
A sculpture garden may be private, owned by a museum and accessible freely or for a fee, or public and accessible to all. Some cities own large numbers of public sculptures, some of which they may present together in city parks.
Exhibits range from individual, traditional sculptures to large site-specific installations.