Resources

Resources

Museum Studies

Museum Interpretation

    1. Core Standards: Education and Interpretation
    2. Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation (publisher’s website) (NYU Library ePub) 
    3. Education and Interpretation: Accessibility
    4. Making Inclusive Museums Now 
    5. Museum Practice: Interpretation Examples
    6. Top ten tips for museum interpretation
    7. What Choreography Can do in a Museum
    8. Woolmer, Mark. “You’re a what? Interpreting Interpretation to Non-interpreters.” 2017.

Museum Equity

  1. Ballingall, Levinsky-Raskin, Stemler, and Williams. Designing Accessible Interactives. Intrepid Museum, 2019.
  2. Bennett, Tony. “The Political Rationality of the Museum.” Continuum 3, no. 1 (1990): 35–55.
  3. Duncan, Carol. Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums. London: Routledge, 1995. Print.
  4. Falk, John. Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2019. (Google Books)  (NYU ePub)
  5. Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean. “The Space of the Museum.” Continuum 3, no. 1 (1990)
  6. Samis, Peter. “New technologies as part of a comprehensive interpretive plan, The digital museum: A think guide”, 2007 – American Association of Museums
  7. McLean, Kathleen. “Exhibitions and the Dynamics of Dialogue” Daedalus, Vol. 128, No. 3, America’s Museums (Summer, 1999), pp. 83-107.
  8. Museum Arts and Culture Access Consortium. Working Document of Best Practices: Tips for Making All Visitors Feel Welcome. 
  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. Papalia, Carmen. “A New Model for Access in the Museum.” Disability Studies Quarterly. 33, no. 3. (2013).
  11. Parker, Priya “The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters” (2018)
  12. Timpson, Corey. “The Great Canadian Quest for an Inclusively Rich Experience.” The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, 2015.
  13. Voon, Claire. Museums Are Finally Taking Accessibility for Visitors with Disabilities Seriously. Art Market, October 14, 2019.

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

  15. Will, Alexandra. “How can Advanced Technology be Beneficially used in the Heritage Sector?” University of Leicester, School of Museum Studies, March 8, 2019. 

Museum Accessibility Guides

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

Accessible Performances

  1. Meet the Folks Making ‘How to Dance in Ohio’ Accessible at Every Performance
  2. Theater access NYC

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. Holmes, Kat. Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design. MIT Press, 2018.
  6. Beyer, Marta. CMME Workshop Discussion: Applying Universal Design to Museum Experiences, 2014
  7. Do’s and Don’ts on Designing for Accessibility
  8. Historic Sites and Universal Design: Lessons from the Tenement Museum
  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. Landau, Steve. Universal Design and Accessibility Workshop: Touch-responsive interactive exhibits and multisensory displays. DCArts, October 30, 2017. Touch Graphics Inc 

Talking about Disability

  1. Demystifying Disability, What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally , Emily Ladau (fulltext available in NYU library)
  2. Disability Etiquette Guide

Digital Accessibility

  1. Overlay Fact Sheet

neurodiversity

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

multisensory Design

  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. 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”) 
  2. Cachia, Amanda. Talking Blind: Disability, Access, and the Discursive Turn. Disability Studies Quarterly. 33, no. 3 (2013).
  3. Clare, Eli. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (1999).
  4. Guffey, Elizabeth. Designing Disability. Bloomsbury Publishing. (2017).
  5. Hendron, Sara. Our Bodies, Aliveness, and the Built World (interview from On Being with Krista Tippett), 2023 
  6. Linton, Simi. Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity. (1998).(NYU Library ePub)
  7. Williamson, Bess. Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design. NYU Press, 2019. (Ability Project Bookshelf) (NYU Library ePub) 
  8. Wood, Caitlin. (Ed). Criptiques. San Bernardino, CA: May Day Publishing. (2014). (Amazon)

Tactile Design

  1. How tactile graphics can help end image poverty, Chancey Fleet
  2. Tactile Maps (Guide created by Themis Garcia Cadiz) 
  3. Touch Points: Co-Designing Tactile Exhibition Elements with User/Experts
  4. Understanding Accessible Interpretation through Touch Object Practices in Museums
  5. Braille Authority of North America: Guidelines and Standards. Unit 8, Orientation and Mobility (tactile maps).
  6. Van Geem, Pat. Vector Line Drawing Tactile Maps.
  7. BTactile: the Place to Find Tactile Graphics.  (a collection of tactile graphics)
  8. Smithsonian 3D (repository of digitized items in the collection)

Video Design

  1. Subtitles, Closed Captions, and Open Captions: What’s the Difference?, Ben Meyers

New York Accessibility Resources

New York Museum Resources