Survey results: deaf and disabled people in the cultural sector,
Curating for Change: deaf and disabled people leading in museums,
‘I was always rebelling against the system’,
BSL introduction to the stories of Deaf people told by the History of Place project,
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Our display in partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, which runs to 20th October, looks at how disabled people are increasingly leading innovative accessible building design.
Pam Friend knows that her great-grandparents were both deaf and that one or both may have attended the Royal School for Deaf Children in Margate. Now she is trying to find out more about their lives.
As part of our Blind School exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool, we’ve run a tactile printmaking workshop, storytelling sessions, a symposia aimed at museum professionals and a Young Archaeologists’ Club session.
Jess Starns, who has been advising the project, discusses her experiences at our three exhibitions and two symposiums.
Museums still have a long way to go in representing and making provision for disabled people – but there are some good news stories and there are simple, as well as ‘ambitious’ changes that all museums can make.
Steph Niciu visits our exhibition ‘The Blind School: Pioneering People and Places’ an
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.
Scarlett Danher describes her work experience with Thinking Film which has been adding BSL captions to one of our films.
Architectural plans for St Saviour’s Deaf Church show how the space was designed for multiple community uses as well as worship.
In this, the sixth and last in a short series of case studies, we look at a cross-section of residents of Normansfield Hospital, hoping to shed light on both the successes and shortcomings of this groundbreaking institution.