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<\/a><\/p>\nAccessibility in museums is a long journey and a milestone which we are still a long way from achieving.\u00a0 Since 1999, the year in which the Education Department of the Museu Nacional d\u2019Art de Catalunya<\/em> started its programme Museum space in common<\/a> <\/em>\u2013which carries out specific projects for groups suffering from mental disorders and functional diversity, many years have passed. Throughout these years the museums of our country have become aware of the fundamental role they play to ensure the full right of the people to access culture<\/strong>.<\/p>\n But this museums\u2019 mission is still fulfilled in an unequal way.\u00a0 We often find that due to the sensitivity of some people, the institutions have covered these spaces with specific programmes or with services aimed at specific target groups. Only a few facilities that have been recently reformed or have been newly created (Museu Blau<\/a>) have developed an accessibility plan that ensures, to a certain extent, universal accessibility.<\/p>\n It was based on this awareness and the need to exchange experiences that the working group, Museums and accessibility,<\/em> was born and constituted in May 2013. The sessions are habitually held in the Maritime Museum of Barcelona<\/a> (In Spanish).<\/p>\n The group is designed as a meeting of museum professionals, similar to the Anglo-Saxon communities of practice<\/a>, with the aim of sharing knowledge, resources, and often, doubts which arise about topics related to accessibility. Among the goals, are:<\/p>\n It is precisely for this reason that for us the importance of the group lies in its structure, and as we have said above, has a similarity to the so-called communities of practice<\/strong>, which can be organised in various ways, but with all of them combining three fundamental elements:<\/p>\n We believe that it is worth highlighting the fact that the group was created by the will of the members, based on an agreement between professionals, and not by a decision of the institutions. This has allowed us to act in a horizontal way, without department or organic borders.<\/p>\n Technicians from the following centres form part of this group:<\/p>\n Throughout this time, the Community of Practice of Museums and accessibility<\/em> has carried out a wide range of interactions and diverse activities, among which it is worth highlighting:<\/p>\n Forming part of this group helps to foster personal and professional development in questions of accessibility. This reverts back in an improvement of our daily tasks and in the awareness-building of the institutions we represent with the medium-term goals of achieving the highly sought-after universal accessibility to culture of everyone, <\/strong>irrespective of their skills, background, socio-economic level, or ideology.<\/p>\n Accessibility in Museums and Libraries<\/a>, IMLS (Institute of Museums and Library Services) Teresa Gonz\u00e1lez Accessibility in museums is a long journey and a milestone which we are still a long way from achieving.\u00a0 Since 1999, the year in which the Education Department of the Museu Nacional d\u2019Art de Catalunya started its programme Museum space in common \u2013which carries out specific projects for groups suffering from mental disorders…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":6338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,45],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-6359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-visitors","tag-accessibility","author-teresa-gonzalez"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/retrat.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tWCI-1Ez","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14368,"href":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions\/14368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n\n
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<\/a><\/h3>\nWhat do we hope to get out of our community of practice?<\/h3>\n
Related links<\/h3>\n
\nAccessibility Program<\/a>, Smithsonian
\nAccess programs at the Met<\/a>
\nDisability and Access<\/a>, Victoria and Albert Museum
\nThe Ultimate Guide to wheelchair accessible Barcelona, Spain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"