Review: our exhibition about the Blind School
Steph Niciu visits our exhibition ‘The Blind School: Pioneering People and Places’ an
Kate Smith
Web editor at the History of Place project
Audio tour: The Blind School: Pioneering People and Places
Audio tour of the History of Place/Museum of Liverpool exhibition.
Abolitionists, musicians and adventurers: the founders of the Blind School
Listen to our audio tour of the Museum of Liverpool exhibition ‘The Blind School: Pioneering People and Places’ – or read more about the adventurous founders of the school.
Anyone for billiards? – the 1923 Deaf Church at Acton
Architectural plans for St Saviour’s Deaf Church show how the space was designed for multiple community uses as well as worship.
Invitation to tender: Interactive trail designer
We are seeking bids to create two interactive trails with an application deadline of 30th November.
Invitation to Tender: Liverpool exhibition fit out contractors
Short deadline: we are seeking bids to fit out our forthcoming exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool by Monday 27th November.
Miro and his robot
We gave Miro Griffiths a test run of a robot from Bristol Robotics for a day as part of our symposium on the past and future of deaf and disabled people. He discussed the implications of new tech with Dr Praminda Caleb-Solly.
Hot irons and hemorrhoids
Things got a bit gory at The Beaney in Canterbury as museum visitors constructed a story of peril in Medieval England to feed into our digital game.
A banner for Bristol’s disabled communities of the past
Our volunteers made this striking banner for our MShed exhibition, which takes inspiration from lost Guild sewn objects, and reflects on the community’s history.
Rising with the city: our exhibition about the Bristol Guild
Our MShed exhibition about the Guild of the Brave Poor Things shows how disabled people advocated for themselves and survived in a changing society from the late Victorian period the 1980s.