Museums Without Barriers

by Foundation De France Icom

• ISBN13: 9780415054546
• ISBN10: 0415054540
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume provides access to some of the best practice in the provision for the disabled, and sets out an agenda for future action in museums worldwide.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Cultural policies concerning disabled people in France and abroad	p. 1
European policy for the integration of disabled people into cultural life	p. 3
The policy of the Ministry of Culture in France	p. 7
Access to historical monuments for disabled people: the policy of the Direction du Patrimoine (French Directorate of the Heritage)	p. 10
'Cry Freedom' after Attenborough: a review of the work of the
United Kingdom Committee of Inquiry into the Arts and Disabled People	p. 15
Facilities for disabled people in French national museums	p. 19
The work of the Commission on the Disabled at the Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris, and the Charter for the Disabled	p. 23
The 'Handicap and Culture' programme at the Fondation de France: a ten-year assessment	p. 28
Changing basic attitudes	p. 31
Funding possibilities	p. 35
Museums and sponsorship	p. 37
The Fondation de France as sponsor	p. 40
The Carnegie United Kingdom Trust: the ADAPT Fund	p. 44
Museums and physical disabilities	p. 47
Adapting historic buildings to make them accessible to disabled people	p. 49
The needs of people with walking handicaps. The Association des Paralyses de France	p. 52
The training of architects in Europe	p. 56
Ergonomics and museology	p. 60
Accessibility at the Greater Louvre, Paris	p. 70
Accessibility at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris	p. 73
The 'Venice for all' project, Italy	p. 77
Museums and people with impaired vision	p. 81
Museums and the visually handicapped	p. 83
The many forms of visual handicap	p. 86
An introduction to art as a means to a therapy to be practised by disabled and non-sighted people	p. 93
The blind and museums: choosing works of art for tactile observation	p. 101
Art and the visual handicap. A role for the associations for the blind, the museums and art associations and the official cultural authorities	p. 107
The new technologies in the service of visually handicapped visitors to museums	p. 114
Paintings and visually impaired people	p. 118
Touch exhibitions in the United Kingdom	p. 122
Blind children in the museums of Budapest, Hungary	p. 127
A current experiment at the Chateau de Blois, France: visits for the blind	p. 130
The Museum for the Blind in Brussels, Belgium	p. 134
Receiving visually handicapped and non-sighted children at the Natural History Museum in Bordeaux, France	p. 140
The tactile museum at the Lighthouse for the Blind in Athens, Greece	p. 143
The tactile museum in Budapest, Hungary	p. 147
Learning with all the senses	p. 149
Museums and people with impaired hearing	p. 151
The deaf	p. 153
Sufferers from defective hearing and the new techniques for communication	p. 156
Reception services for the deaf at the Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie at La Villette in Paris	p. 160
International Visual Art for the Deaf	p. 163
Museums and mentally disabled people	p. 165
Art and museums even for those who suffer the worst disadvantage	p. 167
Museum programmes designed for mentally disabled visitors	p. 172
The National Museum of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, Germany	p. 177
Services for the mentally handicapped at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland	p. 181
Afterword	p. 187
Select bibliography	p. 191
Note on the Fondation de France and ICOM	p. 205
List of contributors	p. 207
Index	p. 209
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