Museum Directory “Accessible Services in the Balkan Museums”
Celebrating the results of more than 30 projects that have been realised in the period 2013-2018 BMN is preparing a brochure with the flagship features that make a museum more accessible. Museum Directory will list the features that make museums’s collections and exhibitions more accessible and improve heritage interpretation. The
The First “Meet, See, Do – LAB”: Excellence in Museum Education
The first “Meet, See, Do – LAB” will take place on Monday, 20th of May 2019, in the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo (duration of the event is from 09-17 hours). MSD LAB will offer three hands-on workshops that will be run by international experts from Oslo
M2M (Museum2Museum): supporting the mobility of museum professionals
Would you like to spend a week[1] in another museum learning and sharing? Do you have a concrete learning need, or missing a skill? Do you have a collaboration project on your mind that you would like to develop? Maybe you would like to use the archives, the depot, collections
Access Survey 2019
The first round of Access Survey was conducted in 2018 in four member museums: The National Museum of Leskovac, NI Institute and Museum Bitola, Museum of Secret Surveillance: House of Leaves in Tirana and Museum of Vojvodina in Novi Sad. The pilot process was supported with the grant from the Headley
National Museum of Leskovac improves inclusion thanks to access surveying process
“Thanks to taking part in the Access Survey process the National Museum of Leskovac was able to fulfill the basic human rights of disabled people who are now actively involved in the social and cultural life of the city, as creators and individuals that also realize the museums’ programme.” Suzana
Increased accessibility and improved interpretation of NI Institute and museum Bitola with new services for visitors
With a small grant from the Balkan Museum Network, cultural heritage in the museum of Bitola is presented in a new way, taking into account that the website of the Bitola Museum is already designed as “responsive”, suitable for viewing on all mobile devices. Some activities that increased the accessibility
How am I suppose to say it; Terminology and language about disability
One of the first steps to create an accessible cultural space is the language we use to reach disabled people who visit or plan to visit it. How can we adopt a human-centered language that is free of stereotypical perceptions that will contribute to the equal participation of all in
Presentation of BMN at the UK Museum Association conference in Belfast
Dina Walters, Milena Milosevic Micic and Aida Vezic held one hour session titled “Building with the broken” at the UK Museum Association conference in Belfast that was held on 08-10 November 2018. The objectives of the session were to outline the Balkan situation; to outline how and why the BMN
Meet, See, Do conference is postponed for 2020
BMN conference “Meet, See, Do” is postponed. Unfortunately we are not able to hold a conference in 2019 and are working toward having it in 2020 with the aim to have bi-annual conference. We are also inviting all members interested in hosting the conference to contact Secretary General or a
Crafting Access training in Zenica, 09 – 13 July 2018
For the third time the craftspersons met with the museum professionals, disabled people and disabled people’s’ associations. The third “Crafting Access” workshop took part in the City Museum Zenica (after the workshops in Gjirokastra and Knjaževac) gathering members of the Balkan Museum Network from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. The