Inclusion in action. Grodekovo Museum among innovation leaders

The winner of the laboratory for museum workers on training for work with blind and visually impaired visitors was the project "Five Meetings: Towns and Fates" by Marina Belkina, head of the research sector of cultural and literary studies, and Mikhail Terekhov, tour guide of the Grodekovo Museum.

The V.I. Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature completed an educational laboratory for museum staff on training in working with blind and visually impaired visitors, which was attended by Marina Belkina and Mikhail Terekhov of the Grodekovo Museum. The laboratory is part of the long-term project "Center for the Development of Inclusion in Museums" and is implemented by the museum with the support of the Potanin Foundation.

19 employees of 10 museums from different regions of Russia underwent a 3-month educational program. In the course of trainings, seminars and lectures they got acquainted with the methods of working with blind and visually impaired people and developed their own ideas of new programs for this category of visitors. At the final intensive in St. Petersburg, the participants presented their ideas.

"Center for the Development of Inclusion in Museums" selected up to 3 winning programs during one laboratory, which receive further financial and methodological support. 

The jury evaluated:

-the overall elaboration and logicality of the content of each program, 

-compliance of the chosen methods with the goals and objectives, 

-inclusion of target audiences in program implementation,

-sustainability of the results obtained, 

-The possibility of replicating the experience gained in the community of literary and memorial museums in Russia.

"We are preparing a new inclusive project "Five Meetings: Cityá and Fates". This is a series of meetings dedicated to the fates of Khabarovsk emigrants, the peculiarity of which will be the opportunity to use formats and tools that are new for our museum, involving different senses and experience of visitors. Each meeting has its own location and is connected with one hero. And especially for the project we are preparing a table-top verbal role-playing game "LiS" ("People and Fates"). Follow the news. We will tell you about the project in detail," shared Marina Belkina, Head of the Research Sector of the Cultural and Literary Studies Branch.

From the whole team we congratulate our colleagues and wish them new achievements and further realization of projects!