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The recently launched Sensational Museum project has outlined its goal to challenge the hierarchical split between museum provision for disabled and non-disabled people, and create museums that "work for everyone".
Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 27 Jul 2023
The recently launched Sensational Museum project has outlined its goal to challenge the hierarchical split between museum provision for disabled and non-disabled people, and create museums that "work for everyone".
The two-year research project will create “a new kind of sensory logic” in museums that won’t privilege access through any one sense.
The £1m (US$1.3m, €1.2m) initiative is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and supported by a range of industry partners, including the Museums Association.
At its digital launch at the end of June, project lead Hannah Thompson of the Royal Holloway, University of London, said the project would “experiment with ways of being in museums where no one sense is necessary to gain a museum experience”.
The project will rethink the role of senses in all aspects of museum work, from accession, cataloguing and collections through to curating, exhibitions and the visitor experience.
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