Essential reading for all professionals concerned with museums and the cultural heritage, with the architecture and design of museums and for those providing service for the disabled. The volume provides access to some of the best practice in the provision for the disabled, and sets out an agenda for future action in museums worldwide.
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`It provides a guide to the best modern museum practice in respect to disability and sets out an agenda for future action in museums worldwide.' - Leisure, Recreation and Tourism
Part 1 Cultural policies concerning disabled people, in France and
abroad;
Chapter 1 European policy for the integration of disabled people into
cultural life, Bernhard M. Wehrens;
Chapter 2 The policy of the Ministry of
Culture in France, Dominique Charvet;
Chapter 3 Access to historical
monuments for disabled people, Anne Magnant;
Chapter 4 âCry Freedomâ
after Attenborough, Peter Senior;
Chapter 5 Facilities for disabled people in
French national museums, Alain Erlande-Brandenburg;
Chapter 6 The work of the
Commission on the Disabled at the Cité des Sciences et de lâIndustrie in
Paris, and the Charter for the Disabled, Louis Avan;
Chapter 7 The
âHandicap and Cultureâ programme at the Fondation de France, Nancy
Breitenbach;
Chapter 8 Changing basic attitudes, Frans Schouten; Part 2
Funding possibilities;
Chapter 9 Museums and sponsorship, Roland May;
Chapter
10 The Fondation de France as sponsor, Sylvie Tsyboula;
Chapter 11 The
Carnegie United Kingdom Trust; Part 3 Museums and physical disabilities;
Chapter 12 Adapting historic buildings to make them accessible to the
disabled, Francisco GarcÃa Aznarez;
Chapter 13 The needs of people with
walking handicaps. The Association des Paralysés de France, Pascal Dubois;
Chapter 14 The training of architects in Europe, Piero Cosulich;
Chapter 15
Ergonomics and museology, Louis-Pierre Grosbois;
Chapter 16 Accessibility at
the Greater Louvre, Paris, C. C. Pei;
Chapter 17 Accessibility at the Musée
dâOrsay, Paris, Jean-Paul Philippon;
Chapter 18 The âVenice for allâ
project, Italy, Piero Cosulich; Part 4 Museums and people with impaired
vision;
Chapter 19 Museums and the visually handicapped, Marcus Weisen;
Chapter 20 The many forms of visual handicap, Robert Benoist;
Chapter 21 An
introduction to art as a means to a therapy to be practised by disabled and
non-sighted people, Michel Bourgeois-Lechartier;
Chapter 22 The blind and
museums, Gilles Grandjean;
Chapter 23 Art and the visual handicap. A role for
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