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Dr Lauren Padgett @drlaurenpadgett.bsky.social · Jul 2

Fantastic to join @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social's online showcase this afternoon. Participating with the project's collections strand on behalf on @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social last year was transformative for me as a curator in rethinking cataloguing & accessing collections in multi-sensory ways.

The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · Jul 2

Got space in your schedule?
Want to know how working in a multi-sensory way can change how museums work for everyone?
Want to hear from people who've tried it out?

Join our showcase, at 3pm (BST) today.

Tickets: tinyurl.com/4khd5d2s

Information, including schedule & slides:
tinyurl.com/4zh648xt

An online showcase to celebrate and share the results of The Sensational Museum.

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · Jul 2

Got space in your schedule?
Want to know how working in a multi-sensory way can change how museums work for everyone?
Want to hear from people who've tried it out?

Join our showcase, at 3pm (BST) today.

Tickets: tinyurl.com/4khd5d2s

Information, including schedule & slides:
tinyurl.com/4zh648xt

An online showcase to celebrate and share the results of The Sensational Museum.

Sensational Museum Showcase

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RNIB Connect Radio @rnibradio.bsky.social · Jun 27

The @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social is a research project radically re-thinking the role of senses in museums.

This July they are gathering together to share and celebrate their work over the last 2 years.

Amelia spoke to Hannah Thompson to learn more.

The Sensational Museum is a research project radically re-thinking the role of senses in museums.

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 25

How can museums create multi-sensory experiences, and collections records? How can The Sensational Museum resources help? How did it change the museum professionals' way of working? Find out! There's still plenty of time to sign up to join our sensational online showcase next week

The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 18

Would you like to join us for The #Sensational #Museum #showcase? Join us online on 2nd July 2025. Hear more about our resources, empowering professionals across the museum to record, create, and share multisensory experiences. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-sensat...

An online showcase to celebrate and share the results of The Sensational Museum.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 18

Would you like to join us for The #Sensational #Museum #showcase? Join us online on 2nd July 2025. Hear more about our resources, empowering professionals across the museum to record, create, and share multisensory experiences. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-sensat...

An online showcase to celebrate and share the results of The Sensational Museum.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · Jun 18

Applications open for our remaining neurodivergent archive accessibility workshops @ukdishisthub.bsky.social @arainternational.bsky.social @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social @ndhumanities.bsky.social @amfoster.bsky.social @edicaucus.bsky.social ‬

Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social · Jun 18

🔔 Neurodivergent archive accessibility 🔔
Are you a neurodivergent researcher using archives, an archivist interested in accessibility, or a neurodivergent archivist?
Applications are open for our 'Divergent Minds in the Archive' workshops in Cardiff, Liverpool and online - full details in thread!

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Charlotte Slark @charlotteslark.bsky.social · May 19

Join us for the first W-ICAD Facilitator Network online event, at 3.30-4.30pm (UTC) 3 June 2025. This 1 hour online session is aimed at those who have completed the W-ICAD on-line training. We want to hear from you!
Book your free ticket now here: www.tickettailor.com/events/wicad...

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · May 6

If you're at #AAM this week, don't forget to earmark our own #sensational session, on 'Building Trust through Multisensory Practice'. It's on Friday, May 09, 2025, from 10:30 - 12:00, Location: 406AB, Los Angeles Convention Center.

GEM Sensational Museum Training

The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · Apr 14

Together with project partners #GEM, we are holding two bespoke training sessions for museum learning professionals. Join us! Come away with inspiration and practical ideas for how you can make your museum and programmes richer and more #inclusive experiences for all visitors.

Take part in 2 sessions to find out more about the Sensational Museum Project, hear case studies and gain inspiration for your practice

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · Apr 9

The Association of Science and Discovery Centres are holding #AccessibilityUnlocked - tinyurl.com/m28xkhs- a one day event on Wed 7th May at Winchester Science Centre. There is a #bursary scheme available - apply until 15th April.
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GEM (Group for Education in Museums) @gem.org.uk · Apr 7

Book your space for GEM Sensational Museum Training.

Join us for two bespoke training sessions that rethink the role of senses in museums.

📆 12 & 19 June 2025
📍Zoom
🔗 gem.org.uk/event/gem-se...

#GEM #Museumlearning @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social

GEM Sensational Museum Training - GEM

Join GEM and the Sensational Museum Project in two bespoke training sessions for museum learning professionals where you will: -Find out more about the Sensational Museum Project and its approach […]

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · Mar 20

Join us at the #AccessInMuseums Conference in Leeds this morning - Hannah, @charlotteslark.bsky.social and @sophievohra.bsky.social will be in the Thoresby room from 11.15am today (Thursday 20th March) talking about 'Running an Accessible Workshop'. We'd love to see you there.

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Claire Adler @cladle.bsky.social · Feb 13

This book looks like a useful and interesting read

www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/downl...

🏛️🎓 #museums #mus-ed #access

Book cover with two hands and the title The Museum Accessibility Spectrun

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · Jan 29

We're excited to be at @leedsmuseums.bsky.social in March, for the #Access In #Museums Conference. Join us - @musdevnorth.bsky.social are offering a #bursary, including a full two-day pass, but also up to £150 contribution towards travel and accommodation. Go to their website for more info -

Access – Museum Development North

www.museumdevelopmentnorth.org.uk

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · Jan 23

📢 Opportunity: Health and Wellbeing in Museums Project Officer

We're looking for a part-time project officer to deliver our new Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund, supported by the Julia Rausing Trust.

The fund supports UK museums to develop and continue sector-leading health and wellbeing work.

Opportunity: Health and Wellbeing in Museums Project Officer - Museums Association

We're looking for a part-time project officer to deliver the Health and Wellbeing in Museums Fund

www.museumsassociation.org

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · Jan 7

Our Curating Visibility fellow, Karl, and the upcoming co-production group featured in BBC News South East's article today!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Click the link below for more details or how to apply:
www.dovermuseum.co.uk/Exhibitions/...

Dover Museum seeks people to help share 'disability narratives'

It is looking for people with lived experience of deafness, disability or neurodiversity.

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · Jan 7

A quick thread answering 'what is The Sensational Museum?' and 'what are they actually working on?', just in case you needed it.

The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · Dec 18

The TLDR is that we’re using what we know about disability to change museums for everyone. The longer version involves rejecting some key assumptions often made.

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · Dec 18

Our own Sensational @alisonfe.bsky.social has announced the exciting launch of free training course on Workshop for Inclusive Co-created Audio Description (W-ICAD). Aimed at museum professionals and students, audio describers, and those interested in inclusive interpretation, it runs on 14.01.25.

W-ICAD | Home

W-ICAD (Workshop for Inclusive Co-created Audio Description) enables the museum sector to produce descriptive interpretation with blind, partially blind & sighted people

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · Dec 18

We'd love to hear from you with questions. Another way of keeping up to date with the project is to sign up for our newsletter - tinyurl.com/y5wtmyzs

The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · Dec 18

and IRL museums and co-creation groups currently piloting our work, to make sure it functions in a real museum setting (tinyurl.com/bdcthubz), including on this app @shakespearebtrust.bsky.social @museumartcraft.bsky.social, the MAA at
@camunivmuseums.bsky.social

Press: Announcing our Pilot Museums – The Sensational Museum

People and Partners – The Sensational Museum

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · Dec 18

But as our lead Hannah says, ‘There is nothing worse than a group of academics telling people…how to run their museums’ so we’re lucky to have a whole host of brilliant industry partners (tinyurl.com/42t73zde) including those on Blusky @museumsassociation.org @wellcomecollection.bsky.social

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · Dec 18

and 2) a toolkit for museums, which will get them into the “sensational mindset” and help them to co-create multisensory, accessible, interventions for their whole museum (Strand B). These will be launched as open access resources at the end of the project.

The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · Dec 18

So what is the project actually doing? Having grounded the project in research and the ideas above, we have developed 1) an experimental model to allow collections professionals to recognise and record the sensory ways in which they experience their collections and their workspace (Strand A)