We are delighted to share the recording of our online showcase: includes BSL, integrated AD and corrected subtitles.
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We are delighted to share the recording of our online showcase: includes BSL, integrated AD and corrected subtitles.
sensationalmuseum.org/resources/sh...
Fantastic to join @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social's online showcase this afternoon. Participating with the project's collections strand on behalf on @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social last year was transformative for me as a curator in rethinking cataloguing & accessing collections in multi-sensory ways.
Got space in your schedule?
Want to know how working in a multi-sensory way can change how museums work for everyone?
Want to hear from people who've tried it out?
Join our showcase, at 3pm (BST) today.
Tickets: tinyurl.com/4khd5d2s
Information, including schedule & slides:
tinyurl.com/4zh648xt
The @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social is a research project radically re-thinking the role of senses in museums.
This July they are gathering together to share and celebrate their work over the last 2 years.
Amelia spoke to Hannah Thompson to learn more.
How can museums create multi-sensory experiences, and collections records? How can The Sensational Museum resources help? How did it change the museum professionals' way of working? Find out! There's still plenty of time to sign up to join our sensational online showcase next week
Would you like to join us for The #Sensational #Museum #showcase? Join us online on 2nd July 2025. Hear more about our resources, empowering professionals across the museum to record, create, and share multisensory experiences. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-sensat...
Applications open for our remaining neurodivergent archive accessibility workshops @ukdishisthub.bsky.social @arainternational.bsky.social @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social @ndhumanities.bsky.social @amfoster.bsky.social @edicaucus.bsky.social
The Workshop for Inclusive Audio description logo: black geometric shapes on a buttery yellow background combine to hint towards a person talking. The logo is to the left, on the right, next to the heading is text that reads "W-ICAD Facilitator Network"
Join us for the first W-ICAD Facilitator Network online event, at 3.30-4.30pm (UTC) 3 June 2025. This 1 hour online session is aimed at those who have completed the W-ICAD on-line training. We want to hear from you!
Book your free ticket now here: www.tickettailor.com/events/wicad...
If you're at #AAM this week, don't forget to earmark our own #sensational session, on 'Building Trust through Multisensory Practice'. It's on Friday, May 09, 2025, from 10:30 - 12:00, Location: 406AB, Los Angeles Convention Center.
Together with project partners #GEM, we are holding two bespoke training sessions for museum learning professionals. Join us! Come away with inspiration and practical ideas for how you can make your museum and programmes richer and more #inclusive experiences for all visitors.
The Association of Science and Discovery Centres are holding #AccessibilityUnlocked - tinyurl.com/m28xkhs- a one day event on Wed 7th May at Winchester Science Centre. There is a #bursary scheme available - apply until 15th April.
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Book your space for GEM Sensational Museum Training.
Join us for two bespoke training sessions that rethink the role of senses in museums.
📆 12 & 19 June 2025
📍Zoom
🔗 gem.org.uk/event/gem-se...
#GEM #Museumlearning @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social
Join us at the #AccessInMuseums Conference in Leeds this morning - Hannah, @charlotteslark.bsky.social and @sophievohra.bsky.social will be in the Thoresby room from 11.15am today (Thursday 20th March) talking about 'Running an Accessible Workshop'. We'd love to see you there.
Book cover with two hands and the title The Museum Accessibility Spectrun
This book looks like a useful and interesting read
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🏛️🎓 #museums #mus-ed #access
We're excited to be at @leedsmuseums.bsky.social in March, for the #Access In #Museums Conference. Join us - @musdevnorth.bsky.social are offering a #bursary, including a full two-day pass, but also up to £150 contribution towards travel and accommodation. Go to their website for more info -
📢 Opportunity: Health and Wellbeing in Museums Project Officer
We're looking for a part-time project officer to deliver our new Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund, supported by the Julia Rausing Trust.
The fund supports UK museums to develop and continue sector-leading health and wellbeing work.
Our Curating Visibility fellow, Karl, and the upcoming co-production group featured in BBC News South East's article today!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Click the link below for more details or how to apply:
www.dovermuseum.co.uk/Exhibitions/...
A quick thread answering 'what is The Sensational Museum?' and 'what are they actually working on?', just in case you needed it.
Our own Sensational @alisonfe.bsky.social has announced the exciting launch of free training course on Workshop for Inclusive Co-created Audio Description (W-ICAD). Aimed at museum professionals and students, audio describers, and those interested in inclusive interpretation, it runs on 14.01.25.
We'd love to hear from you with questions. Another way of keeping up to date with the project is to sign up for our newsletter - tinyurl.com/y5wtmyzs
and IRL museums and co-creation groups currently piloting our work, to make sure it functions in a real museum setting (tinyurl.com/bdcthubz), including on this app @shakespearebtrust.bsky.social @museumartcraft.bsky.social, the MAA at
@camunivmuseums.bsky.social
But as our lead Hannah says, ‘There is nothing worse than a group of academics telling people…how to run their museums’ so we’re lucky to have a whole host of brilliant industry partners (tinyurl.com/42t73zde) including those on Blusky @museumsassociation.org @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
and 2) a toolkit for museums, which will get them into the “sensational mindset” and help them to co-create multisensory, accessible, interventions for their whole museum (Strand B). These will be launched as open access resources at the end of the project.
So what is the project actually doing? Having grounded the project in research and the ideas above, we have developed 1) an experimental model to allow collections professionals to recognise and record the sensory ways in which they experience their collections and their workspace (Strand A)
If you’re interested in some of these ideas, we recommend listening to our podcast shorts. They're also available as descriptive transcripts. shows.acast.com/the-sensatio...
For example, we reject the idea of five bodily senses, that any one sense is the most important or necessary, that separate access provision for disabled people is sufficient, or that the personal experiences of the collections professional should be absent from the data about an object.
The TLDR is that we’re using what we know about disability to change museums for everyone. The longer version involves rejecting some key assumptions often made.
If you’re trying to catch up with who your @bsky.app follows are, or the interesting projects going on you keep meaning to read about, and you’re wondering who or what The Sensational Museum is, here's a quick thread.
Do you have lived experience of #deafness and/or d/Deaf culture and BSL, ASL or International Sign? Our Co-Investigator, @alisonfe.bsky.social and the Uni of Westminster are recruiting for a #PhD studentship. #Deaf #sciencecommunication #museums #accessibility
📩 Submit a proposal for MA Conference 2025 📩
It may feel like a long way off, but we're now looking for proposals for bold, innovative sessions at #Museums2025 that bring us together to find solutions to the critical issues of the day.
If you've got an idea, send it to us by 20 January 👇