Setting the stage -- Getting started -- Making the past accessible -- Small museums, big decisions : balancing accessibility and authenticity at the Jacobus Vanderveer House / Sean Blinn -- Accidentally accessible : when historic preservation limitations lead to inclusive innovations / Sarah Kirk -- In pursuit of an equitable experience / Heather Pressman -- Subway sleuths / Sara Thomson -- Accessibility evolving at The Henry Ford / Caroline Braden -- Making vanishing structures accessible : providing virtual tours of endangered slave and tenant farmer houses along the Cane River / Megan Reed -- On track for access / Elizabeth Nosek -- Accessibility at the intrepid museum : challenges and opportunities / Charlotte Martin -- Building a history : relationships as accessibility / Jennifer Crane -- Creating access for patients and caregivers through museo-medical partners / Kristy Van Hoven -- Breaking barriers to history / Selena Moon -- Creating an immersive accessible experience at Mt. Cuba Center / Charlotte Barrows PLA and Jennifer Lauer -- Toward an acessible future : accelerating disability justice in historic preservation.
Summary:
"An Accessible Past: Making Historic Sites Accessible to All helps historic sites and house museums understand what they need to do in order to be legally compliant, and then, going beyond legal compliance, find creative ways in which to make their sites and museums accessible to visitors with a variety of types of disabilities"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.