Resources

Museum Studies

Museum Interpretation

  1. Core Standards: Education and Interpretation
  2. Education and Interpretation: Accessibility
  3. Woolmer, Mark. “You’re a what? Interpreting Interpretation to Non-interpreters.” 2017.
  4. Museum Practice: Interpretation Examples

  5. Top ten tips for museum interpretation

Museum Equity

  1. Duncan, Carol. Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums. London: Routledge, 1995. Print.
  2. Falk, John. Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2019.
  3. Parker, Priya “The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters” (2018)
  4. “New technologies as part of a comprehensive interpretive plan” by Peter Samis, The digital museum: A think guide, 2007 – American Association of Museums
  5. Museum Arts and Culture Access Consortium. Working Document of Best Practices: Tips for Making All Visitors Feel Welcome. [no date found]
  6. Papalia, Carmen. “A New Model for Access in the Museum.” Disability Studies Quarterly. 33, no. 3. (2013).
  7. Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean. “The Space of the Museum.” Continuum 3, no. 1 (1990).
  8. McLean, Kathleen. “Exhibitions and the Dynamics of Dialogue” Daedalus, Vol. 128, No. 3, America’s Museums (Summer, 1999), pp. 83-107.
  9. O’Neill, Paul, Lucy Steeds, and Mick Wilson. “Introduction.” In How Institutions Think: Between Contemporary Art and Curatorial Discourse. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2017.
  10. Bennett, Tony. “The Political Rationality of the Museum.” Continuum 3, no. 1 (1990): 35–55.
  11. Douglas, Mary. “Institutions are Founded on Analog,” “Institutions do the Classifying,” and Institutions Make Life and Death Decisions.” In How Institutions Think. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1986.
  12. Voon, Claire. Museums Are Finally Taking Accessibility for Visitors with Disabilities Seriously. Art Market, October 14, 2019.
  13. Ballingall, Levinsky-Raskin, Stemler, and Williams. Designing Accessible Interactives. Intrepid Museum, 2019.
  14. Timpson, Corey. “The Great Canadian Quest for an Inclusively Rich Experience.” The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, 2015.

  15. A Matter of Choice? Arts Participation Patterns of Americans with Disabilities. National Endowment for the Arts

Museum Accessibility Guides

  1. Accessibility Resources at the Intrepid
  2. Museum Access Consortium’s Tips for Making All Visitors Feel Welcome
  3. Smithsonian Guidelines for Accessible Exhibition Design
  4. Smithsonian Inclusive Digital Interactives
  5. Smithsonian Social Narratives (for each museum)
  6. Met Tours for Visitors with Disabilities
  7. Guggenheim for All: Sensory Map, Social Narrative, and Minds Eye 
  8. Moma museum training video library

Design

User Experience Design

  1. Elisia, Francesca. “What’s the Difference Between Human-Centered Design and User Experience Design?.” Medium. August 20, 2017. 
  2. Will, Alexandra. “How can Advanced Technology be Beneficially used in the Heritage Sector?” University of Leicester, School of Museum Studies, March 8, 2019. 

Accessibility and Disability 

Universal Design

  1. Burgstahler, Sheryl. “Universal Design: Process, Principles, and Applications.” 2015. 
  2. Ellis, Katie and Mike Kent. “Universal Design in a Digital World.” Disability and New Media. 2011.
  3. Hamraie, Aimi. Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability. Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2017
  4. Holmes, Kat. 5 Ways Inclusion Fuels Innovation. Mismatch, September 16, 2018.
  5. Kat Holmes. Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design. MIT Press, 2018.
  6. Beyer, Marta. CMME Workshop Discussion: Applying Universal Design to Museum Experiences, 2014
  7. Landau, Steve. Universal Design and Accessibility Workshop: Touch-responsive interactive exhibits and multisensory displays. DCArts, October 30, 2017. Touch Graphics Inc [Online]
  8. Do’s and Don’ts on Designing for Accessibility
  9. Inclusive Design Toolkit (University of Cambridge)
  10. Inclusive Design Toolkit (Microsoft)
  11. The Inclusive Historian Handbook
  12. Design for all Requires a Culture Change in Architecture
  13. Historic Sites and Universal Design: Lessons from the Tenement Museum

Cognitive Disability

  1. Voutilainen, Vellonen, and Kärnä. Establishing a Strength-based Technology-enhanced Learning Environment with and for Children with Autism.University of Eastern Finland. 2011.

Sensory Disability

  1. Classen, Constance. The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch. University of Illinois Press, 2012
  2. Heller, Morton A. and Edouard Gentaz. Psychology of Touch and Blindness. Psychology Press, 2014
  3. Kleege, Georgina. Sight Unseen. Yale University Press, 1999
  4. Levent, Nina and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, editors. The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space. Rowman and Littlefield, 2014
  5. Kleege, Georgina. What Blindness Brings to Art. Oxford University Press (2017).
  6. Beete, Paulette. Touch and See. NEA Arts Magazine, Issue 2015, Number 1 [Online]
  7. Chick, Anne. Co-creating an Accessible, Multi-sensory Exhibition with the National Centre for Craft & Design and Blind and Partially Sighted Participants. Conference proceedings from Design of Education as Education in Design; De-stratifying Fields and Subjects, 2017 [Online]
  8. Dadi, Ravikanth and P. Hariharan. Design of Electrocutaneous Tactile Display over Human Fingertip for Textural Applications in Space Manufacturing Feedback. International Conference on Robotics and Smart Manufacturing, 2018 [Available online at www.sciencedirect.com]
  9. Vidal-Verdu, Fernando and Moustapha Hafez. Graphical Tactile Displays for Visually-Impaired People. IEEE Transactions on Neural 
  10. Arcand, Kimberly Kowal, Megan Watzke, and Chris De Pree. Exploring the Invisible Universe: A Tactile and Braille Exhibit of Astronomical Images. CAPjournal, No. 8, June 2010 [Online]
  11. Cachia, Amanda. “Talking Blind: Disability, Access, and the Discursive Turn.” Disability Studies Quarterly. 33, no. 3 (2013).
  12. Coates, Charlotte. Best practice in making Museums more accessible to visually impaired visitors. MuseumNext, December 8, 2019.
  13. Landgreen, Malorie and Ben Jones. CMME: Tactile Paths Not Taken, 2014
  14. Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired: Museums and Exhibits. Contact: Greg Kehret, Director of Access to Information Services ( gkehret@lighthouse-sf.org )
  15. National Center on Accessibility. Indiana University, Bloomington. Exhibit Design Relating to Low Vision and Blindness Summary Report. January 10, 2011 
  16. University of Oxford. Heritage: Please Touch the Art 
  17. Kleege, Georgina. More Than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art. Oxford University Press (2017).
  18. Edman, Polly Tactile Graphics (1992).

Disability Justice

  1. Wood, Caitlin. (Ed). Criptiques. San Bernardino, CA: May Day Publishing. (2014).
  2. Belser, Julia Watts. “Vital Wheels: Disability Relationality and the Queer Animacy of Vibrant Things” 
  3. Byrne, John, Elinor Morgan, November Paynter, Aida Sánchez de Serdio, Andela Zeleznik, eds. The Constituent Museum: Constellations of Knowledge, Politics and Mediation, A Generator of Social Change. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2018. (Aida Sánchez de Serdio, “Pedagogies of Encounter”; Nora Sternfeld, “Give her the Tools, She will Know What. To do with Them! Some Thoughts about Learning Together”; Yaiza Hernández Vélazquez”) 
  4. Clare, Eli. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (1999).
  5. Guffey, Elizabeth. Designing Disability. Bloomsbury Publishing. (2017).
  6. Linton, Simi. Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity. (1998).
  7. Williamson, Bess. Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design. NYU Press, 2019
  8. Wolframe, PhebeAnn Marjory. “The Madwoman in the Academy, or, Revealing the Invisible Straightjacket: Theorizing and Teaching Saneism and Sane Privilege”. Disability Studies Quarterly. 33, no. 1. (2016)
  9. Guffey, Elizabeth. Designing Disability. Bloomsbury Publishing. (2017).
  10. Cachia, Amanda. Talking Blind: Disability, Access, and the Discursive Turn. Disability Studies Quarterly. 33, no. 3 (2013).

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