Over the past ten years 70% of the Museum's public space has been transformed through FuturePlan phase 1. This is why in the V&A's FuturePlan, a redevelopment of the South Kensington and Museum of Childhood sites, access for disabled people is a priority.įuturePlan is an ambitious programme dedicated to restoring and enhancing the V&A's original 19 th century architecture, opening up previously hidden areas to the public and improving visitor facilities. Historically this approach has not been the norm for museums as many would not be either physically or intellectually accessible. The V&A's aim is for disabled people to come in off the street, just as any visitor would, to enjoy the collection. Over the past ten years, the museum has been pro-active in developing inclusive and accessible services and premises for its visitors, including those with sight problems. The purpose of the Museum is to enable everyone to enjoy its world class collections and to explore the cultures that created them: to inspire those who shape contemporary design.
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It also operates an accessible archive and store at Blythe House in West London (jointly run with the British Museum and the Science Museum). The V&A is part of a family of museums consisting of The V&A in South Kensington and the V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green. However, this gives us the opportunity to show how an historic building which was not designed with disabled people in mind can be made into an accessible environment for all users in the twenty first century. A listed building, in the United Kingdom, is a building that has been placed on the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, similar to the National Register of Historic Places in the United States. First opened in 1857, the museum is housed in seven Grade 1 Listed buildings, which combine to form one large building and seven miles of gallery space. The Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of art and design. The museum considers how it can improve the visitor experience by removing the physical barriers, staff training, providing touch objects and tactile books, as well as looking to the future to see how technology can play a part in improving access.Įmploying people with a disability has also assisted the V&A in its journey to becoming more accessible by employing a blind person as its first Disability and Access Officer, a unique opportunity to change from within. Taking a focused approach to consider not only the objects but implementing a museum wide strategy is required to provide inclusive access for all visitors.
The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has tried to take an holistic approach to access, by looking at what prevents blind and partially sighted visitors visit a museum and how it can improve access for such an audience. Many museums around the world provide some accessibility but what happens when a museum looks at the issue in its entirety and sees blind and partially sighted visitors as important as everyone else.
Accessing museums has been difficult for people who are blind or partially sighted, often due to objects being placed in glass cases creating a barrier to access.
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