ABSTRACT

Even though museums and galleries have made efforts to become more inclusive, many continue to find it challenging to engage visitors who are blind or have low vision. The ‘Vis-ability’ exhibition, presented at the QUT Art Museum in 2019 was an exhibition curated with clear social inclusion goals from the outset. Through it, the museum sought to develop innovative, cost effective, and readily replicable techniques to allow blind and low vision visitors and artists to engage with the institution and its collections. The results affirm the benefits of offering blind and low vision visitors a spectrum of engagement choices, and also affirm that blind and low vision artists and visitors have capacity to make a critical contribution in co-designing that spectrum of choices. This exhibition and its use of multisensorial elements offers a useful prompt to museums to engage this community more fully in co-designing inclusion in the future.

摘要

尽管博物馆和美术馆已做出努力，以实现更具包容性，但许多人仍发现，吸引盲人或视力低下的游客具有挑战性。2019年在昆士兰州立大学美术馆（QUT Art Museum）举办的``可见性''展览是从一开始就策划明确的社会包容目标的展览。博物馆试图通过它开发出创新的，具有成本效益的，易于复制的技术，以使盲人和弱视游客和艺术家能够与该机构及其收藏品互动。结果肯定了为盲人和弱视访客提供一系列参与选择的好处，并肯定了盲人和弱视艺术家和访客有能力在共同设计各种选择中做出关键性的贡献。