Tag: Museums

Sensing-Culture
Accessibility and Inclusive Practice, Multi-sensory, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in Schools and SEND families

Sensing Culture: Resources and Information supporting blind or partially sighted visitors

Sensing Culture has been a three-year multi-partner project with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) as the lead partner, and […]

cropped sinks in public toilets
Accessible and Changing Places Toilets

AROUND THE TOILET: A research project report about what makes a safe and accessible toilet space (2018)

This new report was published in May 2018 and written as part of the AHRC funded Connected Communities project: ‘Around the Toilet’. […]

Social media symbols in a mindmap
Accessibility and Inclusive Practice, Digital, Social Media, Social Media

Inclusive Social Media Content

The importance of inclusive social media messaging: Inclusive social media messaging is vital for any organisation in its communications to its employees, […]

Eureka Museum
Exhibitions, Multi-sensory, Projects, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities in Schools and SEND families

Feeling The Future – Access To Arts and Culture For People with Visual Impairments Trizia Wells, Inclusion Manager at Eureka! The National Children’s Museum

Feeling the Future: Access to Arts and Culture for People with Visual Impairments tells how Eureka! has developed a series of sculpture […]

Vocaleyes
Accessibility and Inclusive Practice, Audio-Visual Equipment

Vocaleyes: Guidelines for Digital Accessibility

Guidelines for Digital Accessibility (including Audio Description on film): 
http://vocaleyes.co.uk/services/museums-galleries-and-heritage/resources/guidelines-for-digital-accessibility-film/

See also Stagetext guidelines for adding captions to increase further access: https://www.musedcn.org.uk/2017/11/19/captioning-your-films-and-videos-stagetext/

Accessible and Changing Places Toilets

Why Are Changing Places Toilets important? The Art of exLOOsion by Alison Beevers – Retford Changing Places Campaign (facebook)

You visit an Art Gallery. You may visit the gallery café or the gallery shop. You may also visit the loos, after […]

Changing Places
Accessible and Changing Places Toilets

Changing Places toilets information for museums and heritage organisations

DCN has worked with families and the Changing Places Consortium to support museums and organisations to increase the number of Changing Places […]

Archive

Oral History Training/Volunteering opportunity: History of Place Project

History of Place is offering a day of oral history training at M Shed Bristol on 30th January, followed by flexible opportunities to […]

StageTEXT
Accessibility and Inclusive Practice, Digital, Social Media

Captioning your films and videos: Stagetext

Captions are a great resources that can benefit everyone. Remember not to use autogenerated captions, but create your own which are easy […]

Disability Co-operative Network
Reports

Project LAB: tackling illiteracy and other global issues at Royal Institution of Science

June 2017 1 in 5 adults in the United Kingdom are illiterate with 738 million globally. This is hard to digest in […]

Employers Stammering Network
Awareness

Talking about Stammering

We wrote about the Employers Stammering Network (ESN) https://www.musedcn.org.uk/2016/05/26/the-employers-stammering-network/) a year ago. We know that stammering is still too often a hidden […]

Disability Co-operative Network
Archive

Consultation Opportunity (Questionnaire) Dyslexia and the Impact of Managerial Practices Research

Hello, I’m trying to determine whether or not there is a relationship between managerial practices, and the impact on people with dyslexia […]

Archive

Cabinet of Curiosities: How Disability Was Kept in A Box ~ Mat Fraser and Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, University of Leicester

Critically acclaimed actor and performance artist Mat Fraser was commissioned by the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries at the University of Leicester to create a new artistic work, shaped out of a collaborative engagement with museum collections, research and expertise in medical history, museums and disability

DASH Arts
Archive, Past Exhibitions and Art Projects

Disability Arts in the Mainstream

DASH are instigators and initiators of the commissioning of new work by Disabled visual artists within mainstream galleries since 2009, enabling Disabled artists to create new work and collaborate with new institutions.