Macerata, aThe “Inclusive Guide to the Carriage Museum” received the Inclusion 3.0 Award as part of the fourth edition of the 2021 Inclusion Week organized by the University of Macerata.
The project was awarded yesterday, Monday 15 March, during an online event in which, for the Municipality of Macerata, the mayor Sandro Parcaroli, the deputy mayor and councilor for social services Francesca D'Alessandro and the councilor participated to Katiuscia Cassetta Culture.
The “Inclusive Guide to the Carriage Museum” - awarded as stated in the motivation because “it proposes an intralinguistic (Italian-Italian) and intersemiotic (from the visual to the verbal-acoustic code) translation of the paper guide “Carriage Museum. Civic Museums. Palazzo Buonaccorsi” (2020 edition). Thanks to the guide, the Museum becomes an accessible reality also for visitors with disabilities, who can actively participate through personalized methods of use" - is based on the principle of inclusion, with a view to making the space and the museum experience shareable by providing involvement of every type of user, both those relating to different age groups and those with specific needs.
“It is a participatory work – stated the Councilor for Culture Cassetta after thanking the University of Macerata for the important recognition – starting from its planning curated by the Museums Office directed by Gianluca Puliti, thanks to the intuition and passion of Giuliana Pascucci and Rosaria Cicarilli, in collaboration with Elena Di Giovanni and Francesca Raffi and was created thanks to the participation of Alina Pulcini and Valeria Angeletti from UIC and accompanied by the voice of Corrado Villa".
“Creating culture in an inclusive way is an activity that the Civic Museums of Macerata – continued Cassetta – have been cultivating since the reorganization of the Carriage Museum and the Civic Art Gallery in Palazzo Buonaccorsi”.
“The implications of this approach are anything but theoretical, they impact both the identity and social role of the institute as well as the aspects of cultural management – said the Councilor for Culture –. The new Inclusive Guide aims to complete and crown the existing services but at the same time launches a series of initiatives with the aim of making the experience of visiting museums increasingly participatory and welcoming. The difficult pandemic moment we are facing also requires cultural institutes to rethink the management of their services and communication. The museums of Macerata have found it natural to face this emergency by insisting on the concept of inclusiveness. And this is why the Guide will be followed by other editions dedicated to the city's heritage and by a series of educational offers that will enhance inclusive projects, not only in museums but hopefully also in the Library and in all places of culture and education . An accessible museum is not just a museum that breaks down physical barriers, but a museum that makes its assets understandable, making the stories it tells accessible to everyone. An inclusive museum – concluded La Cassetta – is therefore first of all an understandable museum, that is, a place in which environments, routes and contents are clear to everyone, decipherable, intelligible in the forms in which they are expressed”.
To support the full inclusion of people with disabilities, the Museums have established a network of relationships and collaborations with various bodies and associations such as AFAM - Macerata Alzheimer's Family Association, the Italian Union of the Blind and Visually Impaired, IRCR, ANFFAS, the Listening Center and first reception and the various city service clubs. Collaborations that have made it possible to design and implement targeted services and activities such as explanatory material in Braille, tactile models, guided tours with trained staff, audio descriptions, descriptive videos in LIS and room tablets with facilitated access.
The Short Guide to the Carriage Museum is an edition of Macerata Musei, created thanks to the project of the Municipality of Macerata ITI “IN-NOVA MACERATA (Action 4) of the ERDF Operational Programme 2014-2020 financed by the Marche Region.
On the YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/Rw9Yn_Mpdygsi can view a short video showing two ideal visitors caught in the act of experimenting with the use of the mediation services adopted at the Carriage Museum.
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