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  1. Sensational Experiences at our Pilot Museums

    Over the summer the TSM team has been busy visiting our pilot museums. Despite a few transport-related misadventures this has been a wonderful opportunity to put faces to names and get a sense of what makes each museum special. In this month’s blogpost, our post-docs Sophie and Charlotte share their sensational highlights. Keswick Museum The […]

  2. Blogpost: Cardiff Retreat Reflections

    In June 2024 we ran our second ‘Retreat’, this time in Cardiff, wonderfully hosted by the National Museum Cardiff – Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd. On day 1 it was a pleasure to share our findings so far not only with representatives from all our partners but also with museum professionals from a range of Welsh organisations […]

  3. Announcing our Pilot Museums

    Over the last few months, we’ve been running two strands of workshops to develop our prototype processes and software. Bolstered by insights, suggestions and critical queries from our project partners and invited industry professionals, we’re reaching the last stages of prototype development. We’re nearly ready to see how our prototypes perform in real museums and […]

  4. Blogpost: The Sensational Museum Brand Design

    Designing a visual identity for a non-visual project Project Research Associate Charlotte Slark reflects on the design process to create The Sensational Museum brand As a project with accessibility at its heart, we wanted to make sure that the Sensational Museum branding was as accessible as possible. But how do you create a logo that […]

  5. Lisa Townsend: Identity

    We met Lisa at the first Sensational Museum retreat in January in Belfast. She helped us understand why we always need to provide a flexible and varied range of different ways to participate. Our Project Lead, Hannah, and Lisa had an in-depth conversation about identity, so we asked Lisa to write about it. Identity’s a […]

  6. The Sensational Museum at ‘Dressing disability’

    PDRA for Strand A, Sophie Vohra, reflects on her visit to the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds to attend the opening of Curating for Change Fellow, Amelia Silver’s exhibition, ‘Dressing Disability’. Sophie has written image descriptions for each photo featured and these are included in the text. Into the Museum This Grade II listed […]

  7. Blogpost: Belfast Retreat Reflections

    Project Lead, Hannah Thompson, reflects on what we learned sharing the project in Belfast Our first podcast episode was created by TSM post-doctoral researchers Sophie Vohra and Charlotte Slark. They made it as a pre-workshop listening task for participants to access ahead of our Belfast ‘retreat’. It also works as a stand-alone introduction to The […]

  8. Blogpost: ‘I have not yet achieved full blindness’

    What I can and cannot see has not changed very much in the last fifty years, writes Professor Hannah Thompson. Apart from the usual age-related variations, my sight now is pretty much the same as it was when I was born. But the way I talk about my sight has evolved. When I was a […]

  9. The Starting Point

    We consider access in museums Access in museums has come a long way in the last twenty years, but museums are still not always inclusive spaces for disabled people, writes researcher Dr Charlotte Slark. It’s clear that there needs to be a radical re-think about how museums engage with disabled visitors and how they represent […]