museums
Museum accessibility: a duty, not an option
The article proposes accessibility as a dynamic and universal process, implying everyone and not single categories of audience. The museum is understood as an institution serving society, called to engage with communities and build shared narratives. Through concrete experiences gained in various museums of Sicily, multisensory approaches, multiple languages, and accessible tools integrated into daily practice are explored. The experiments described show how inclusion can transform places, roles, and relationships. The museum thus emerges as a living space of participation, responsibility, and civic cohesion.
Accessibility practices for temporary exhibitions
The article describes the actions of the Museo dell'Ara Pacis towards an increasingly accessible, inclusive, and participatory exhibition design. Through progressive experiments, initially aimed at specific audiences and then extended to all, accessibility becomes a structural part of the cultural project. Multisensory devices, multiple languages, and collaborations with organizations and communities transform the visiting experience. The exhibitions thus configure themselves as spaces of relationship, choice, and active interpretation. Accessibility emerges as a lever for innovation and rethinking the museum as a public service.
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.