Dover Museum seeks people to help share 'disability narratives'
2025-01-07
Category: entertainment

Dover Museum is looking for people with lived experience of deafness, disability or neurodiversity to help with its collections.Curating Visibility fellow Karl Mercer and the team have researched stories from across thousands of years of Dover's history.They have found objects and stories about smugglers, gladiators, illustrators, soldiers, Channel swimmers and medieval pilgrims.Now the team is looking for a group of eight people who can help find the best way of telling these stories through digital technology.
A museum spokesperson said the programme "reimagines what museums can do to share often overlooked disability narratives by exploring digital technology and multi-sensory interpretation".Participants need to be free on Tuesday or Saturday evenings from 17:00 to 20:00 GMT. 
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