Publication: EU Commission Guide on Access to Culture: Policy Making and Best Practices
Download PDF: http://ec.europa.eu/culture/documents/platform_access_culture_july09.pdf
Tags: Access to Culture, EU Commission, Best Practices for Cultural Inclusion
EBU Commission on the Access to Culture and Education: Plan of Action for the term 2011-2015
Website: http://www.euroblind.org/media/projects/EBU-Culture-Education_plan-of-action-2011-2015.doc
Place: Omero State Tactile Museum, Italy
The “Museo Tattile” is one of the rarest tactile museums in the world. It offers people with sight disabilities the possibility to meet and explore art works through the use of their hands.
Website: www.museoomero.it
Web Resource: Autism in the Museum
A clearinghouse of best practices, models, ideas, resources and research about making museums, zoos, aquariums and other informal educational settings both welcoming and inclusive for people with autism and their families.
Website: http://www.autisminthemuseum.org/
Publication: Make the post-MDG Framework Inclusive for Persons with Disabilities
Website: http://www.internationaldisabilityalliance.org/en/article/
ida-and-iddc-post-mdg-position-paper-and-listserv
Tags: MDG, Millennium Development Goals, United Nations, inclusion, persons with disabilities, IDA
Publication: ICCROM Working Group ‘Heritage and Society’: Definition of Cultural Heritage – References to Documents in History, January 2005
Website: http://cif.icomos.org/pdf_docs/Documents%20on%20line/Heritage%20definitions.pdf
Tags: Definition of Cultural Heritage, Concept of Cultural Heritage, UNESCO definition, Council of Europe Convention
Museum: Norwegian Deaf Museum (2009)
Norwegian Deaf Museum’s primary mission is to maintain and share the Hearing Impaired history from all over Norway, and thereby enhance as a minority group in Norwegian society.
Website: http://www.norsk-dovemuseum.no (Norwegian language)
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