Museums without barriers : a new deal for disabled people / Fondation de France, ICOM

List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- I. Cultural policies concerning disabled people, in France and abroad: European policy for the integration of disabled people into cultural life / Bernhard M. Wehrens ; The policy of the Ministry of Culture in France / Dominique Charvet ; Access to historical monuments for disabled people: the policy of the Direction du Patrimoine (French Directorate of the Heritage) / Anne Magnant ; ‘Cry Freedom' after Attenborough: a review of the work of the United Kingdom Committee of Inquiry into the Arts and Disabled People / Peter Senior ; Facilities for disabled people in French national museums / Alain Erlande-Brandenburg ; The work of the Commission on the Disabled at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris, and the Charter for the Disabled / Louis Avan ; The 'Handicap and Culture' programme at the Foundation de France: a ten-year assessment / Nancy Breitenbach ; Changing basic attitudes / Fram Schouten --II. Funding possibilities: Museums and sponsorship / Roland May ; The Fondation de France as sponsor / Sylvie Tsyboula ; The Carnegie United Kingdom Trust: me ADAPT Fund -- III. Museums and physical disabilities: Adapting historic buildings to make them accessible to disabled people / Francisco García Aznarez ; The needs of people with walking handicaps. The Association des Paralysés de France / Pascal Dubois ; The training of architects in Europe / Piero Cosulich ; Ergonomics and museology / Louis-Pierre Grosbois ; Accessibility at the Greater Louvre, Paris / C. C. Pei ; Accessibility at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris / Jean-Paul Philippon ; The 'Venice for all' project, Italy / Piero Cosulich -- IV. Museums and people with impaired vision: Museums and the visually handicapped / Marcus Weisen ; The many forms of visual handicap / Robert Benoist ; An introduction to art as a means to a therapy to be practised by disabled and non-sighted people / Michel Bourgeois-Lechartier ; The blind and museums: choosing works of art for tactile observation / Gilles Grandjean ; Art and the visual handicap. A role for the associations for the blind, the museums and art associations and me official cultural authorities / Marcus Weisen ; The new technologies in the service of visually handicapped visitors to museums / Hoëlle Corvest ; Paintings and visually impaired people / William Kirby ; Touch exhibitions in the United Kingdom / Anne Pearson ; Blind children in the museums of Budapest, Hungary / Zoltan Gollesz ; A current experiment at the Château de Blois, France: visits for the blind / Martine Tissier de Mallerais ; The Museum for the Blind in Brussels, Belgium / Micheline Ruyssinck, Mieke Van Raemdonck ; Receiving visually handicapped and non-sighted children at the Natural History Museum in Bordeaux, France / Janine Prudhomme ; The tactile museum at the Lighthouse for the Blind in Athens, Greece / Iphigenia Benaki ; The tactile museum in Budapest, Hungary / Emese Szoleczky ; Learning with all the senses / Angelika Schmidt-Herwig -- V. Museums and people with impaired hearing: The deaf / Bernard Mottez ; Sufferers from defective hearing and the new techniques for communication / Eric Bizaguet ; Reception services for the deaf at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie at La Villette in Paris / Guy Bouchauveau ; International Visual Art for the Deaf / Béatrice Derycke -- VI. Museums and mentally disabled people: Art and museums even for those who suffer the worst disadvantage / Jean de Ponthieu ; Museum programmes designed for mentally disabled visitors / Charles K. Steiner ; The National Museum of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, Germany / Gert Reising ; Services for the mentally handicapped at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland / Jan Daniel Artymowsski ; Afterword / Nancy Breitenbach -- Select bibliography -- Note on me Fondation de France and ICOM -- List of contributors -- Index