The Beta version of Museum Analytics shows the online and offline visitors of international museums. The Metropolitan Museum is among the Top 3 of both categories, as well as in the category of Facebook Likes. The Museum of Modern Art is first in followers on Twitter, while the Louvre is leader in "real" visitors, in …
Theatre workshop “A ciegas” (Madrid). Open call for students. Deadline: March 29, 2012
------ ENGLISH VERSION BELOW ----- Taller de creación escénica “A ciegas”. Convocatoria pública Hablar en Arte lanza una convocatoria pública para participar en un taller de experimentación teatral y de danza, cuyos alumnos -invidentes y videntes- investigarán a través del cuerpo y la voz sobre experiencias, clichés y otros conceptos sobre la ceguera. El taller …
Accessibility Checklists from the Berlin Museums
The Association of Museums in Berlin (LMB) provide checklists for exhibition design for visitors with special needs. Please find this information in German on their Website. If you want to contribute to make this information available in English, please get back to us, as we are working on similar guidelines and checklists. Together, we will …
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‘Sounds Design’ at the Design Museum
While you are sat reading this blog post your vision is not the only sense being stimulated. You are taking in sounds and smells of things going on around you whilst you skin touches different fabrics. As Professor Charles Spence explained in the ‘Sounds Design’ talk at the Design Museum last night, we are only aware of the results of how our senses integrate, how we experience a situation as a whole, but not how our senses interact with each other to produce that experience.
Charles Spence is a psychologist based at the Crossmodal Research Laboratory in Oxford University. His research investigates how our brains combine inputs from each of our senses. All the senses influence an experience in their own way, and sound, the focus of the evening’s talk, is no exception. We are all aware of influence that sound can have (e.g. a ticking clock in a horror…
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“In Work” Exhibition in Vienna adapted for all publics
The exhibition "In Arbeit" (In Work) at the Technology Museum in Vienna has been adapted according to the Design For All philosophy. It features a tactile exhibition model, touch-reliefs of objects and diagrams, an audible DAISY-book as a guide and a navigation system through the exhibition. High Contrast Map of the Exhibition Tactile Floor Plan …
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