Sensational Museum project seeks pilot museums to develop new access tools

This article was first published by the Museum Association.

The Sensational Museum project is seeking a range of museums across the UK to help pilot and develop multisensory processes and tools that better serve both disabled and non-disabled visitors.

Launched last year, the £1m research project is exploring how access and inclusion can be transformed by putting disability at the centre of museum practice. The goal of the scheme is to challenge the hierarchical split between museum provision for disabled and non-disabled people, and create a museum that “works for everyone”.

The project has been collaborating with partner museums and museum organisations to design processes and tools that will support museums to embed inclusive multisensory thinking into their practice.