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Get disabled voices front and centre to build accessibility in the heritage sector from the very start.

Our friends museumsandheritage.com want to hear from you ✉️

We’re looking for Disabled Co-Producers to support our Curating Visibility Fellows.

Interested in museums and the stories they tell?

🔗http://alturl.com/rg7pb

@disabilitylab.bsky.social @londonmuseum.bsky.social
@charlestontrust.bsky.social @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social

YouTube video by Museums and Heritage 2025: Inclusive career pathways in museums and heritage

The panel discussion from the Museums + Heritage Show 2025 is now available to watch online. Ruth Garde from Accentuate and former Curating for Change fellow Kyle Jordan spoke on the panel “Inclusive Career Pathways in Museums and Heritage”. Watch it now: youtu.be/XzlE1aPPAsA

We Will Not Be Left Behind is now live at IWM Duxford. This digital sound piece by Curating Visibility Fellow Cat Waites, Lucia Scazzocchio & DL Williams explores disabled people’s WWII stories via archives and oral histories.Thanks to @artfund.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social.

Disability Arts Online is seeking new trustees!

🧩 Join DAO Board of Trustees and make a meaningful impact, using your skills and experience to support a charitable organisation in achieving its mission.

Learn more and apply:
disabilityarts.online/opportunity-...
Deadline: 5pm on Thursday 31 July.

Last Thursday, we launched We Will Not Be Left Behind at IWM Duxford—a digital sound piece by Curating Visibility Fellow Cat Waites, Lucia Scazzocchio and deaf poet DL Williams. Huge thanks to all who came, and our funders @artfund.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social for making it possible!

July is #DisabilityPrideMonth 🌈 We’re celebrating disabled voices + thinking about how tech can make museums more inclusive. What tools or ideas would make cultural spaces more accessible to you? Share your thoughts—let’s shape the future together.

Curating Visibility Fellow Anahita Harding worked with co-producers at the Food Museum, to present Food Not Cuts - exploring disabled people’s experience of sourcing, cooking and eating food. Now live at @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social. @artfund.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social

Thanks for attending the launch of Food Not Cuts exhibition created by co-producers & Curating Visibility Fellow Anahita Harding at @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social, with audio producer Lucia Scazzocchio. Thanks to @artfund.bsky.social @artscouncilengland.bsky.social for making this exhibition possible.

Congratulations to our Curating Visibility Fellow, Anahita Harding, who has been named the Visual Artist Winner at the London Icons of the Year Awards! Read more about her practice here: shorturl.at/9YtOK
Image credit: Icons London

We want to express our support for deaf, disabled & neurodivergent artists and cultural practitioners in light of the government’s proposed “Pathways to Work” Green Paper. Without Access to Work, we risk increased barriers and reduced employment.

Read our full response here: shorturl.at/VGlUe

On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Curating Visibility reaffirms our commitment to tackling the under-representation of deaf, disabled & neurodivergent voices in museums—placing lived experience at the heart of workforce, collections & interpretation.

🔍 Object of the Week

This 1789 pewter medallion celebrates King George III’s recovery from illness in 1801. George III’s condition also influenced major changes to British law around mental health and criminality.

📍 Dover Museum. Curated by Karl Mercer

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🔍 Object of the Week

These handmade swimming trunks (1970s) belonged to Scottish long-distance swimmer Bill Stein, who became one of the first disabled people to swim the English Channel in 1979.

📍 Dover Museum. Curated by Karl Mercer

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🔍 Object of the Week: Bartholomew Fair by B.R. Haydon (1786–1846) features rare early depictions of disabled figures, including someone using crutches and a small Black figure, possibly a child or person living with achondroplasia.

📍 @dovermuseum.bsky.social
Curated by @karlantmercer.bsky.social

We’re launching a new branded website for Curating Visibility!

As part of this exciting update, we’re thrilled to announce that our 360° Virtual Tours from our Curating for Change project are now available to view!

Head over and explore the tour here: curatingforchange.org/events/360-v...

Now that we’ve welcomed our final three Curating Visibility Fellows, we’re excited to introduce you to all six Fellows currently shaping the programme. Head to our website and get to know more about them! curatingforchange.org/2025/03/26/m...

We’re partnering with London Museum on a series of short films spotlighting disabled Londoners throughout history.
DYSPLA is now casting for the final role: Billy Waters (1778–1823), a legendary Black, disabled street performer and musician. More info on our website: shorturl.at/y3FnF

Five Curating for Change exhibitions which were displayed at Museum of Liverpool, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, National Railway Museum, York, and Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, are launching online as 360 Virtual Tours.

RSVP to info@accentuateuk.org now 🚀

Final day for all deaf, disabled, or neurodivergent artists to apply for Uncomfortable Bedfellows!

This is an arts-led project exploring disabled experiences in healthcare environments.

Apply now (BSL version available): shorturl.at/fpso5

We inviting you to the online launch of 360-degree virtual tours of five Curating for Change exhibitions. Join us to discover how you can navigate the tours, how they were developed, and how we hope to build further accessibility into them in the future.
2pm, 19 March
RSVP: info@accentuateuk.org

Call out for Curating Visibility Filmmaker! 🎥 We are looking for an experienced filmmaker/editor to capture our project milestones, with a focus on the digital interventions at our six host museums.

Learn more about how to apply: shorturl.at/hfsxI

Deadline: 5pm, 21st March

Are you a deaf, disabled, or neurodivergent artist interested in arts & healthcare? 1 week left to apply for Uncomfortable Bedfellows, a paid online workshop by Accentuate & Screen South exploring disabled experiences in hospitals.
Apply and share your perspective (BSL available): shorturl.at/fpso5

Call for deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent artists!
Take part in an online workshop - Uncomfortable Bedfellows - an arts-led exploration into the challenges faced by disabled people in healthcare environments. Learn more and apply by 7 March (BSL avail): shorturl.at/fpso5

Opportunities - British Art Network BAN/YCBA Curatorial Forum 2025 New Haven and New York, October 2025 Application deadline: Monday 3 March 2025 at 5pm GMT Are you actively curating art – whether in a museum, […]

Applications are now open for the British Art Network/Yale Center for British Art Curatorial Forum, a 10-day residential programme in New Haven and New York from 5 - 15 October 2025. Find out more and apply: britishartnetwork.org.uk/opportunities/

Jessica Starns, a critical friend of us, is now an Adobe Creative Resident for Inclusive Design at the V&A Museum! Her first open studio event is on Saturday, 22 February 2025—don’t miss it: shorturl.at/ZRRTa

Photo: @vamuseum.bsky.social

Happy Lunar New Year from all of us at Curating Visibility! 新年快乐! 🐍

As we welcome the Year of the Snake, we celebrate transformation, wisdom, and renewal—values that inspire our mission to create equitable and accessible museum storytelling.

Thank you for being part of our journey!

On 4th Feb, join us for the online launch of ‘Museum Accessibility Spectrum’, with events on Powershifts, Agents of Social Change, etc. @appleyardfox.bsky.social will speak about Disability Gain at Event 2. Sign up now:
Event 1: 9:00–10:15 AM shorturl.at/H6xBd
Event 2: 4:30–5:45 PM shorturl.at/z0EZd

Esther Fox @appleyardfox.bsky.social, Head of Accentuate, contributes a chapter to ‘Museum Accessibility Spectrum: Reimagining Access and Inclusion’, edited by Alison Eardley @alisonfe.bsky.social and Vanessa Jones.

Now the book's free digital version is available to download: shorturl.at/WLuil

We’re excited to share that we have selected our final three fellows, who will be taking up placements at the London Museum, @barnsleymuseums.bsky.social , and
@charlestontrust.bsky.social

We’ll be introducing them soon. Stay tuned! 🌟