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The Art of Access
A Practical Guide for Museum Accessibility
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About this book
The Art of Access: A Practical Guide for Museum Accessibility is a one-stop guide to the incremental ways your museum can build a comprehensive approach to accessibility that can be easily integrated into the fabric of your museum.
Highlights include:
Consultation with leaders in the field and calling on practitioners from across the disciplines (art, science, history, business, living collections)Concrete examples and specific resourcesPartnershipsPhysical/environmental accessSensory accessInclusive spaces, exhibitions, and programsStaff training and institutional buy-inEach chapter presents practical actions that any museum or cultural institution (regardless of the size, budget, or scope) can take to better engage and welcome visitors of all ages and abilities. This book will illuminate the incremental ways in which accessibility can be easily integrated into the fabric of museums, thus enabling institutions to better engage with audiences who would otherwise not visit the museum.
Highlights include:
Consultation with leaders in the field and calling on practitioners from across the disciplines (art, science, history, business, living collections)Concrete examples and specific resourcesPartnershipsPhysical/environmental accessSensory accessInclusive spaces, exhibitions, and programsStaff training and institutional buy-inEach chapter presents practical actions that any museum or cultural institution (regardless of the size, budget, or scope) can take to better engage and welcome visitors of all ages and abilities. This book will illuminate the incremental ways in which accessibility can be easily integrated into the fabric of museums, thus enabling institutions to better engage with audiences who would otherwise not visit the museum.
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Yes, you can access The Art of Access by Heather Pressman,Danielle Schulz in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Museum Administration. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 Different, Not Less: Essential Background
- 2 Won’t You Be Our Neighbor: Partnerships, Part I
- 3 Nothing about Us, Without Us: Partnerships, Part II
- 4 Environmental Access: The ADA and Inclusive Design
- 5 Not an Afterthought: Cognitive Access
- 6 A Spectrum of Experience: Sensory Access
- 7 A Whole New World Wide Web: Digital Access
- 8 Dollars and Sense: Financial Access
- 9 A Word about Words: Communications
- 10 If You Build It, They Will Come: Inclusive Exhibitions and Programming
- 11 All Aboard: Professional Development and Staff Training
- 12 You Are on the Road to “Welcome”
- Appendix A. Resources to Continue Your Journey
- Appendix B. Questions to Get Started with Museum Accessibility
- Appendix C. Glossary
- Bibliography
- About the Authors