Museums Without Barriers Book

	List of illustrations
	Foreword
	Preface
I	Cultural policies concerning disabled people in France and abroad	1
	European policy for the integration of disabled people into cultural life	3
	The policy of the Ministry of Culture in France	7
	Access to historical monuments for disabled people: the policy of the Direction du Patrimoine (French Directorate of the Heritage)	10
	'Cry Freedom' after Attenborough: a review of the work of the
	United Kingdom Committee of Inquiry into the Arts and Disabled People	15
	Facilities for disabled people in French national museums	19
	The work of the Commission on the Disabled at the Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris, and the Charter for the Disabled	23
	The 'Handicap and Culture' programme at the Fondation de France: a ten-year assessment	28
	Changing basic attitudes	31
II	Funding possibilities	35
	Museums and sponsorship	37
	The Fondation de France as sponsor	40
	The Carnegie United Kingdom Trust: the ADAPT Fund	44
III	Museums and physical disabilities	47
	Adapting historic buildings to make them accessible to disabled people	49
	The needs of people with walking handicaps. The Association des Paralyses de France	52
	The training of architects in Europe	56
	Ergonomics and museology	60
	Accessibility at the Greater Louvre, Paris	70
	Accessibility at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris	73
	The 'Venice for all' project, Italy	77
IV	Museums and people with impaired vision	81
	Museums and the visually handicapped	83
	The many forms of visual handicap	86
	An introduction to art as a means to a therapy to be practised by disabled and non-sighted people	93
	The blind and museums: choosing works of art for tactile observation	101
	Art and the visual handicap. A role for the associations for the blind, the museums and art associations and the official cultural authorities	107
	The new technologies in the service of visually handicapped visitors to museums	114
	Paintings and visually impaired people	118
	Touch exhibitions in the United Kingdom	122
	Blind children in the museums of Budapest, Hungary	127
	A current experiment at the Chateau de Blois, France: visits for the blind	130
	The Museum for the Blind in Brussels, Belgium	134
	Receiving visually handicapped and non-sighted children at the Natural History Museum in Bordeaux, France	140
	The tactile museum at the Lighthouse for the Blind in Athens, Greece	143
	The tactile museum in Budapest, Hungary	147
	Learning with all the senses	149
V	Museums and people with impaired hearing	151
	The deaf	153
	Sufferers from defective hearing and the new techniques for communication	156
	Reception services for the deaf at the Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie at La Villette in Paris	160
	International Visual Art for the Deaf	163
VI	Museums and mentally disabled people	165
	Art and museums even for those who suffer the worst disadvantage	167
	Museum programmes designed for mentally disabled visitors	172
	The National Museum of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, Germany	177
	Services for the mentally handicapped at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland	181
	Afterword	187
	Select bibliography	191
	Note on the Fondation de France and ICOM	205
	List of contributors	207
	Index	209