This webinar, Perspectives on Accessibility Panel: Expert Insights on Improving Access for Visitors and Staff, explores practical strategies for making museums, archives and cultural spaces more inclusive for neurodivergent visitors, staff and volunteers. It covers key concepts such as neurodiversity and universal design, and addresses how collections and exhibits can be adapted to better support a wide range of needs.
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Recommended Prerequisites
In This Recording, You'll Learn:
- Why accessibility matters, with a special focus on neurodiversity
- How to make collections more accessible to visitors and staff
- How and why it's important to incorporate Universal Design into exhibitions and programming
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Expert Resources
Bethany Fleming, Exhibit Developer
- Active Collections
- Active Collections helps museums and local history organizations actively manage and prioritize their objects so collections better support their mission and serve the public.
- Active Collections book
- Getting Started with Active Collections - Vermont Historical Society
- Museums Association
- Museum Scan
- Museum Scan provides 3D scanning, digitization, and digital-preservation services, tools, tutorials, and resources to help museums and cultural institutions create, manage, and publish high-quality 3D models of artifacts for access, conservation, and web/AR use.
Peter Hyde, Exhibit Designer
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