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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

We are delighted to share the recording of our online showcase: includes BSL, integrated AD and corrected subtitles. sensationalmuseum.org/resources/sh...

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Dr Lauren Padgett @drlaurenpadgett.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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.

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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

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The Sensational Museum: Online Showcase

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

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RNIB Connect Radio @rnibradio.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

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.

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Sensational Museum Showcase

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 · 25/06/2025

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

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

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...

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The Sensational Museum: Online Showcase

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

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Charlotte Slark @charlotteslark.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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 · 06/05/2025

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.

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

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.

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GEM Sensational Museum Training

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 · 09/04/2025

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. forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

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GEM (Group for Education in Museums) @gem.org.uk · 07/04/2025

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

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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 · 20/03/2025

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 · 13/02/2025

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 · 29/01/2025

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 -

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Access – Museum Development North

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 23/01/2025

📢 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.

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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

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

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/...

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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 · 07/01/2025

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

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

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.

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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 · 18/12/2024

If you’re trying to catch up with who your @bsky.app follows are, or the interesting projects going on you keep meaning to read about, and you’re wondering who or what The Sensational Museum is, here's a quick thread.

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 12/12/2024

📩 Submit a proposal for MA Conference 2025 📩 It may feel like a long way off, but we're now looking for proposals for bold, innovative sessions at #Museums2025 that bring us together to find solutions to the critical issues of the day. If you've got an idea, send it to us by 20 January 👇

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Propose a session for Conference 2025 - Museums Association

7-9 October 2025, Cardiff and online Following the success of Conference 2024, we look forward to welcoming you to Conference 2025 at St Fagans National

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Just re-sharing this for anyone who's looking for some Monday morning inspiration.

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Good luck to everyone who applied for a Curating Visibility Fellowship.

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Do you love museums? Do you define yourself as D/deaf, disabled or neurodivergent? There's still a full weekend to prepare your application to become a Curating Visibility Fellow. You can find BSL, subtitled and Easy Read information about the roles on the website. screensouth.org/events/curat...

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Curating Visibility Fellowships Recruitment – Screen South

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Charlotte Slark @charlotteslark.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Confused by how accessibility doesn't just make your museum better for disabled people? Listen to me and @sophievohra.bsky.social explain Disability Gain - one of the core concepts of @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3nDn...

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Sensational Shorts - Disability Gain

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Charlotte Slark @charlotteslark.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If you haven't already listened to the incredible @sophievohra.bsky.social talk to @suryabowyer.com about identity in the latest episode of the Sensational Shorts podcast you absolutely should! It's 27mins of brilliance. open.spotify.com/episode/1Tih...

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Sensational Shorts - Identity

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Our Sensational Short podcast episodes offer revealing discussions about key concepts for the project. They can be listened to or read as a descriptive transcripts. We're so excited about this episode on Identity. Thank you @sophievohra.bsky.social and @suryabowyer.com for sharing your conversation.

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surya bowyer @suryabowyer.com · 18/11/2024

Had a lovely time chatting with @sophievohra.bsky.social about multi-ethnic identity and its analogies to museum cataloguing… with a bit of connoisseurship thrown in. Available at the link below or wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social for having me! #museum 📜

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

We've also got lots of blogposts worth a look, including this, about the process of designing a visual brand for a project all about de-centralising vision.

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Blogpost: The Sensational Museum Brand Design – The Sensational Museum

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Looking for an introduction to the project? Our #podcast is a great place to start. Our 'Sensational Shorts' give short intros to concepts like #DisabilityGain and #Multisensory. Longer podcasts produced for our Belfast and Cardiff retreats get into more detail open.spotify.com/show/1WKXdzx...

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The Sensational Museum

Podcast · The Sensational Museum · Welcome to The Sensational Museum Podcast, where we share content that explores access, disability, museum practice and the senses. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Do you love #museums and want to begin to pursue a curatorial career? Do you define yourself as D/deaf, #disabled or #neurodivergent? Our brilliant project partner, Curating Visibility is openly recruiting for its final three Curatorial Fellowships: screensouth.org/events/curat... Deadline 25.11.24

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Curating Visibility Recruitment – Screen South

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Make Museum Joy Accessible -there's still plenty of time to join Hannah, Sophie and Charlotte at our workshop at #Museums2024 this afternoon, from 2:30 in the Newsroom.

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Attending #Museums2024? Come and join us in Making Museum Joy Accessible, on Wednesday 13 November, from 2:30 to 3:20 in the Newsroom. Or find Hannah, Sophie or Charlotte to chat to during the conference - we love to talk about our work.

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

If you're looking for an intro into our project, 'Sensational Shorts' is a group of podcasts simply and clearly explaining some of the key concepts and ideas forming the foundation of The Sensational Museum - sensationalmuseum.org/resources/po...

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Podcasts: Sensational Shorts – The Sensational Museum

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

'Identity’s a funny thing. Some identities are forced upon us. Some we claim for ourselves, and others we attain' - we asked writer/researcher/artist Lisa Townsend to write about her experience of identity. Read on our website: sensationalmuseum.org/2024/03/25/l... #identity #disability

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 01/02/2024

Get involved with the Sensational Museum! Applications are now open for museums to become funded pilot museums, testing and developing the work of the project - sensationalmuseum.org/2024/01/31/a...

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Do you love museums and want to begin to pursue a curatorial career? Do you define yourself as D/deaf, disabled or neurodivergent? Curating for Change, Sensational Museum partner and sector lead have just posted their 3 new Curating Visibility Fellowships: screensouth.org/events/curat...

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

If you work in museums and want to help make positive changes in the sector, take 10 minutes to fill out a survey, for museum professionals, designers or collections professionals. sensationalmuseum.org/get-in-touch... #museums #heritage #getinvolved

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The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

If you were inspired by #MUSEUMS2023 to make positive changes in the sector, please help us on our mission to make museums more accessible for all by filling out and sharing our short survey: t.co/Utpu6a9iOe

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