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E-book The Museum Accessibility Spectrum : Re-imagining Access and Inclusion

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Central to the practice of the modern museum sector are the principles of access, inclusion, diversity, sustainability, and community participation (ICOM, 2022). As the curators of our cultural and social histories, the heritage sector is morally and legally required to provide reasonable adjustments to ensure equitable access or all people. The dictionary definition of access is the means or opportunity to approach or enter a place. However, in relation to our cultural heritage, within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948), the concept of access was broadened to include physical, sensory, and cognitive. The human right to take part in cultural life was re-asserted and enshrined in Article 15 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1966 and has been signed by 99 countries. In the following years, these rights have been increasingly ratified within law across the globe.The museum sector has a strong desire to improve access and inclusion. How-ever, access initiatives still tend to take place through limited programming and/ or a small number of museum exhibits. As such, the majority of disabled audi-ences are granted access to only small, and potentially token areas of the collection, compared to those that are available to the majority ‘abled’audiences. Although the rights to culture are universal, and access provisions have slowly increased in many places around the world, arguably one of the significant barriers that hinders progress is the implicit bias that underpins society’s understanding of access. Spe-cifically, this edited volume argues that the current concept of access is ableist and fundamentally flawed. The concept of ‘access’sets up a binary distinction between the nondisabledmajority, and the disabled minority. This creates an othering of disabled individuals by positing them as different to the normative majority (see Jensen, 2011). Central to the concept of othering is the subordination of a societal group (disabled) in relation to a dominant group (abled). This dichotomy sets up those who have access (the assumed normative majority) against those who do not have access (the disabled minority). From a practical perspective within museums, this can risk providing a justification for a lesser amount of resources being spent on the assumed (disabled) minorityof visitors, relative to the assumed (abled) major-ity. However, this simple dichotomy also denies the fact that probably at least half of the global population, the majority of which are nondisabled, do not engage with museums (e.g. Mendoza, 2017). It also ignores other barriers to potential museum audiences, including, but not limited to, physical, sensory, cognitive, social, and cultural.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

069 EAR t

Penerbit

London : Taylor & Francis., 2025

Deskripsi Fisik

313 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781003382713

Klasifikasi

069

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Museology (Museum science)

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