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  1. A Visitor shares her feedback

    Charmaine Ashpole shares her experience of one of our Sensational interventions and explains why it means so much to her. On the penultimate day of my family holiday in the Lake District, I arranged to “view” the Keswick Museum’s contribution to the Sensational Museum collaboration, the “Keswick School of Industrial Arts (KSIA)” exhibition. As a […]

  2. Blogpost: ‘We Won’t Be Left Behind’ at IWM Duxford

    On 10th July Charlotte and Hannah went to the launch of ‘We Won’t Be Left Behind’ at IWM Duxford. Created by Curating for Visibility fellow Cat Waites, ‘We Will Not Be Left Behind’ is a brilliant, and accessible, exhibition which features a soundscape that brings to life the experiences of disabled people during World War […]

  3. Blogpost: The Sensational Museum at Mosaic Convening

    At the beginning of October 2024, our sensational researcher, Sophie Vohra, travelled to Boise Idaho to learn from and present at the first Mosaic Convening, hosted by Prime Access Consulting (PAC). Image Description: Three images layered over each other into a banner, each of a view from inside a vehicle looking out of a window. […]

  4. Blogpost: Sensational Experiences visting 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 […]

  5. Press: 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 […]

  6. 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 […]

  7. Blogpost: 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 […]

  8. Blogpost: 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 […]

  9. 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 […]