Accessibility
Dutch museum aims for improved accessibility with launch of short-form captions
The 'long story short' boards, which summarise each display using less complex language, have so far received a largely positive response
Meet the grassroots group making the art world more welcoming for Black women
Black Girls in Art Spaces has expanded to more than two dozen chapters across the US and abroad in just two years
‘Art gives you something to hold on to’: Dutch museum launches dementia-friendly programme
A series of events will use the museum’s collection to spark memories and emotions
The next urgent -ism: museums must change their ageist ways
Museums in the US and beyond are neglecting members of a rapidly expanding demographic who also historically have been the sector’s biggest donors
Tomás Saraceno's Serpentine Galleries show takes on new life as a sanctuary for birds, insects and mammals
Honeycomb-like structures by the artist have welcomed a diverse array of wildlife from within Kensington Gardens over the past two months
National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC apologises to visitor with a disability who was forcibly removed
Celeste Tooth, a student and artist, was escorted off the museum premises following a disagreement with a guard over their backpack
'Autism made me an art historian. But museums must do more to welcome disabled and neurodiverse communities'
Museums were quick to implement Covid-19 safety measures and now they need to apply that same rigour to improving accessibility
'Black grief and white grievance' at New York’s New Museum
Plus, artists with disabilities in the Covid era and Goya's Disasters of War
Aspen Art Museum closes Yayoi Kusama’s infinity room due to building code violation
The installation, which opened on 20 December, is closing 11 weeks early
How to make museums more accessible for disabled people? Ask them
Research groups have designed new technologies and initiatives for the V&A, Kunsthistorisches Museum and Thyssen-Bornemisza
Paris Museum of Modern Art unveils €10m revamp of Art Deco home
Redesign by h2o architectes opens up 1930s building—with monumental murals by Matisse and Dufy—to disabled visitors
Dom Icony brings icons to the blind in central Moscow
Created in consultation with the Russian Society for the Blind, Nadezhda Gubina and her husband Igor Vozyakov have created a didactic and tactile exhibition
Los Angeles Broad Art Foundation aims at ultra accessibility
Los Angeles collectors Eli and Edythe Broad open their doors
The UK arts minister on creativity without cash, and the Victoria and Albert Museum’s splendid exhibition of late medieval art
Excellence? Access? Go to “Gothic”