Dialogue in the Dark ("Dialog in the Dark" in American promotional materials) is an awareness raising
exhibition and franchise, as well as a
social business. In
Dialogue in the Dark, blind guides lead visitors in small groups through different settings in absolute
darkness. Through this visitors learn how to interact without sight by using their other
senses, as well as experience what it is like to be blind. The exhibition is organized as a
social franchising company, which offers the exhibition as well as business workshops, and has created jobs for the
blind, disabled, and disadvantaged worldwide. The exhibition aims to change mindsets on
disability and
diversity, and increase
tolerance for “otherness”. Since its first opening in 1988 over six million visitors from more than 25 countries have experienced
Dialogue in the Dark, which has provided over 6,000 blind people jobs.