Art / Inclusion / Practice
Exploring cultural artefacts can have a positive impact on the quality of life of older adults and keeps them socially and cognitively active and connected, thus contributing to successful ageing. This project is creating solutions to enable various application partners like museums, exhibitors, tourism agencies and municipalities to create and share cultural experiences with older …
Cupore, a Center for Cultural Policy Research, maintained by the Foundation for Cultural Policy Research, has published a fact sheet on equality and accessibility in Finnish cultural policy. The fact sheet offers suggestions on how to improve equality and accessibility in Finnish cultural policy as well as a brief summary of the key policy documents …
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Are you passionate about opening up culture to everyone? The Design for All Foundation is looking for the best Design for All projects undertaken between 1 January 2012 and 1 January 2013. If you've been involved in a an inspirational initiative to make a museum or cultural centre more inclusive, we want to hear from you. …
As part of Art Beyond Sight awareness month, which also includes this week's Multimodal Approaches to Learning Conference (see 25 September blog post), a telephone conference crash course will be held on Monday 29 October. The course, aimed at museum professionals and anyone wishing to improve access to culture, will include professional development sessions on: …
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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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