museums
Accessibility in museums: an investment that creates the future
The text reflects on the numerous impacts related to considering accessibility as a strategic principle to redefine the public role of museums. Accessibility policies build proximity, capable of creating trusting relationships and fostering new forms of participation. In this sense, the opening to the sensory-perceptual dimension in the visit paths enriches the museum narrative, welcoming new audiences; as well as the use of technologies as enablers of meaning. All these accessible interventions produce measurable returns, also in terms of economic sustainability: a mature managerial reading of the phenomenon shows how these interventions generate value in the medium-long term. Accessibility also produces effects on the level of social sustainability, expanding cultural citizenship, reducing inequalities, and generating relational well-being. Accessibility is therefore a fundamental lever for the future of museums and, above all, an investment that produces the future.
Co-designing culture: ethics and complexity for a more accessible museum
The author, Miriam Mandosi, reflects on the meaning and construction of co-design processes for cultural accessibility in the museums. She conveys the ethical implications and outlines the various phases, from ideation to the ongoing maintenance of the action.
Beyond the Frames: Museums, Identity, and Intersectional Perspectives
Simone Briatore reflects on museum narratives through the lens of intersectionality and the relationship established with the audience.
Museum accessibility starts online
An analysis on website accessibility of Italian Luoghi della cultura. A focus is on Italian and European laws.
The exhibition “Le fiabe sono vere… Storia popolare italiana”
The exhibition Le storie sono vere... Storia popolare italiana stands as a true manifesto of public culture, redefining the museum’s role as an accessible space-time to the diversity of contemporary audiences and making accessibility the guiding principle to revive the heritage of Italian traditions.
What does GLAM mean?
The collaboration between museums, archives, and libraries (GLAM) is based on the assumption that these three types of organizations, sharing the mission of conserving and enhancing the cultural heritage they collect, address the same communities, offer similar services, and share working practices.
However, the disciplinary fields of the professionals involved are very different, and the operating models and management and enhancement practices of the organizations are not always compatible.
Experience at the Galleria Borghese with Vulnerable Audiences
Stefania Vannini describes the initiatives launched at the Galleria Borghese aimed at engaging vulnerable audiences: tactile maps, podcasts, education in Italian Sign Language (LIS) and in Visual Vernacular. With a distinct feature: the coexistence of different audiences, both to help break down prejudices against disability and, at the same time, to enrich the cultural and human experience of all participants.