If you’re trying to catch up with who your @bsky.app follows are, or the interesting projects going on you keep meaning to read about, and you’re wondering who or what The Sensational Museum is, here's a quick thread.
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The TLDR is that we’re using what we know about disability to change museums for everyone. The longer version involves rejecting some key assumptions often made.
For example, we reject the idea of five bodily senses, that any one sense is the most important or necessary, that separate access provision for disabled people is sufficient, or that the personal experiences of the collections professional should be absent from the data about an object.
So what is the project actually doing? Having grounded the project in research and the ideas above, we have developed 1) an experimental model to allow collections professionals to recognise and record the sensory ways in which they experience their collections and their workspace (Strand A)
and 2) a toolkit for museums, which will get them into the “sensational mindset” and help them to co-create multisensory, accessible, interventions for their whole museum (Strand B). These will be launched as open access resources at the end of the project.
But as our lead Hannah says, ‘There is nothing worse than a group of academics telling people…how to run their museums’ so we’re lucky to have a whole host of brilliant industry partners (https://tinyurl.com/42t73zde) including those on Blusky @museumsassociation.org @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
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