Museum Courses II WORKSHOP | Experimenting: “Museums and Accessibility”
The School of Cultural Heritage and Activities Foundation, the Directorate General for Museums and the Directorate General for Education, Research, and Cultural Institutes, as part of the educational series Museum Courses II WORKSHOP | Experimenting, are organizing and promoting the educational course “Museums and Accessibility – Nothing for us without us”, developed as an outcome of the workshop "Museum Professions and the Challenge of Accessibility", held in L’Aquila last 9 and 10 June.
The course consists of 22 teaching units including live streaming, webinars, video-lessons, and additional digital elements.
The main objectives of the educational course include:
- increasing knowledge and skills in accessibility in museum settings
- communicating in an accessible and inclusive way
- designing an operational strategy in a systematic way
- assessing a museum’s degree of accessibility
Target audience
The course is intended for MiC directors and personnel of the second and third area of the Institutes in question, involved in activities related to the topics covered by the teaching units.
The identification of other professionals working in Italian museums is taken care of by the Regions and/or territorial entities to which they belong, with the help of networks and associations of reference for museums that have already completed the process of joining the National Museum System.
Enrolment and use
Enrolment is open from 21 September to 4 October 2022 exclusively on the Course Portal: https://portalecorsi.beniculturali.it/.
The webinars will be available on the e-learning platform of the School of Cultural Heritage and Activities Foundation (FAD), according to the schedule detailed in the Circular, in the following modes:
- live: from 17 October 2022 to 23 January 2023
- on demand: from 21 October 2022 to 31 March 2023
For more information and technical details on taking the course, please see the FAD Handbook attached
For more information
Notice from 16/11/2022: the start of on-demand use of Amir Zuccalà's video clip will take place on a date after November 18 and will be announced on this webpage.
DG-ERIC Circular n. 42 dated 21/09/2022
Inaugural Day Programme 17 October 2022
Programme and how to register for the day of 6 December 2022
