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Our story begins at the "Dialog im Dunkeln" ("Dialogue in the dark") exhibition which ran from February to April 1998 at Zurich's Museum of Design. That is where blind clergyman Jürg Spielmann met a fellow exhibition guide, partially sighted psychologist Stephan Zappa. The two decided to submit a darkness-themed project for the Expo'01 national exhibition, while drawing up parallel plans for a dark restaurant in Zurich. They put together a project paper and joined forces with blind social worker Andrea Blaser and blind singer Thomas Moser (also guides at the exhibition) to set up the "Blind-Liecht" charitable foundation in December 1998. The Foundation was exempt from tax and therefore able to collect money to finance specific projects. After an intensive planning phase, the four founders opened the "blindekuh" (the name is the German for the game blind man's buff) restaurant in September 1999. In March 2002, "Blindekuh, the Expo in the dark" — the rights to which are held by the Blind-Liecht Foundation — opened on the Arteplage in Murten. The exhibition was created by Jürg Spielmann and Stefan Zappa in collaboration with the blind doctor Jürg Flück, who later also joined the Foundation.
The blindekuh concept has been copied successfully several times. blindekuh opened its doors in Zurich, as the world's first dark restaurant, in September 1999. It was followed in April 2001 by the "Unsicht-Bar" in Cologne and in June 2002 by "Nocti Vagus" in Berlin. A further "Unsicht-Bar" opened in Berlin in September 2002, then came "Dans le Noir" in Paris in September 2004. The second blindekuh opened in Basel in February 2005. December 2005 brought the "Taste of Darkness" to the Dialogmuseum in Frankfurt. The "Dans le Noir" in London then opened in February 2006. An "Unsicht-Bar" came to Hamburg in September of that year, with another "Dans le Noir" opening in Moscow in November. The concept has since spread beyond Europe, and blindekuh regularly receives requests from around the world for help to put similar projects into practice.
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