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Highly recommended for everyone working in the field-- Artribune Magazine An important contribution to broadening our concept of accessibility, integrating theory and practice to ensure audience's different needs become core, rather than marginal, to a museum's business. Drawing on best practice across the world it offers a step-by-step guide to identifying and measuring objectives as well as overcoming internal resistance and barriers to organisational change. It offers wise words on the importance of internal and external allies, normalising disability, boosting visibility, co design, encouraging exchange between different people and not reinventing the wheel. Its focus on staff development with an accompanying range of exercises to raise awareness and help put policy into practice is especially welcome as well as recent lessons learnt during the pandemic about the transformative role of digital technologies.--Eithne Nightingale, co-editor of Museums, Equality and Social Justice and previous Head of Equality and Diversity, Victoria and Albert Museum

"""Highly recommended for everyone working in the field"" -- ""Artribune Magazine"" A comprehensive, yet highly readable approach on confronting accessibility within the museum space, while also offering an easy digestible practical guide on how to go about enacting change. -- ""Journal Of Museum Education"" An important contribution to broadening our concept of accessibility, integrating theory and practice to ensure audience's different needs become core, rather than marginal, to a museum's business. Drawing on best practice across the world it offers a step-by-step guide to identifying and measuring objectives as well as overcoming internal resistance and barriers to organisational change. It offers wise words on the importance of internal and external allies, normalising disability, boosting visibility, co design, encouraging exchange between different people and not reinventing the wheel. Its focus on staff development with an accompanying range of exercises to raise awareness and help put policy into practice is especially welcome as well as recent lessons learnt during the pandemic about the transformative role of digital technologies. --Eithne Nightingale, co-editor of Museums, Equality and Social Justice and previous Head of Equality and Diversity, Victoria and Albert Museum Maria Chiara Ciaccheri's book contributes importantly to understand how to approach accessibility systematically, both conceptually and in practice. The volume contributes to ongoing debate on accessibility and inclusion in significant ways. -- ""The International Journal of Museum Studies"" A comprehensive, yet highly readable approach on confronting accessibility within the museum space, while also offering an easy digestible practical guide on how to go about enacting change. An important contribution to broadening our concept of accessibility, integrating theory and practice to ensure audience's different needs become core, rather than marginal, to a museum's business. Drawing on best practice across the world it offers a step-by-step guide to identifying and measuring objectives as well as overcoming internal resistance and barriers to organisational change. It offers wise words on the importance of internal and external allies, normalising disability, boosting visibility, co design, encouraging exchange between different people and not reinventing the wheel. Its focus on staff development with an accompanying range of exercises to raise awareness and help put policy into practice is especially welcome as well as recent lessons learnt during the pandemic about the transformative role of digital technologies. Maria Chiara Ciaccheri's book contributes importantly to understand how to approach accessibility systematically, both conceptually and in practice. The volume contributes to ongoing debate on accessibility and inclusion in significant ways. ""Highly recommended for everyone working in the field"""

An important contribution to broadening our concept of accessibility, integrating theory and practice to ensure audience's different needs become core, rather than marginal, to a museum's business. Drawing on best practice across the world it offers a step-by-step guide to identifying and measuring objectives as well as overcoming internal resistance and barriers to organisational change. It offers wise words on the importance of internal and external allies, normalising disability, boosting visibility, co design, encouraging exchange between different people and not reinventing the wheel. Its focus on staff development with an accompanying range of exercises to raise awareness and help put policy into practice is especially welcome as well as recent lessons learnt during the pandemic about the transformative role of digital technologies.--Eithne Nightingale, co-editor of Museums, Equality and Social Justice and previous Head of Equality and Diversity, Victoria and Albert Museum

"""Highly recommended for everyone working in the field"" An important contribution to broadening our concept of accessibility, integrating theory and practice to ensure audience's different needs become core, rather than marginal, to a museum's business. Drawing on best practice across the world it offers a step-by-step guide to identifying and measuring objectives as well as overcoming internal resistance and barriers to organisational change.It offers wise words on the importance of internal and external allies, normalising disability, boosting visibility, co design, encouraging exchange between different people and not reinventing the wheel. Its focus on staff development with an accompanying range of exercises to raise awareness and help put policy into practice is especially welcome as well as recent lessons learnt during the pandemic about the transformative role of digital technologies."

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Maria Chiara Ciaccheri is a museum consultant, researcher and docent, as well as an expert in the field of museum accessibility with a focus on cognitive issues and participatory approaches in adult education. With a background in Museum Studies and Management and an MA in Learning and Visitor Studies in Museums from the University of Leicester (UK), over the last fifteen years she has worked and researched extensively in the field of museum accessibility. In 2014, thanks to a visitor grant, she travelled all over the US, mapping more than a hundred accessible best practices throughout the country. As a lecturer in Museum Accessibility for a number of Post-graduate University Programs in Italy, and the author of many articles and publications on this topic, she often speaks at national and international conferences (including LEAD Leadership Exchange in Arts and Disability from the VSA Kennedy Center) and in 2019 she launched the project “Museums for People” to support museum studies and the spread of accessibility practices and awareness through illustration.

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