Denver Art Museum

The Denver Art Museum will create a welcoming environment for people of diverse backgrounds, abilities, and perspectives and enable museum visitors with disabilities to access the museum on their own terms. Project activities will include increasing staff’s understanding of disabilities to mitigate accessibility barriers at the museum; actively engaging individuals with disabilities to learn from their experiences visiting the museum; convening a working group to generate ideas for accessibility prototypes; fabricating and testing the prototypes; and hosting a community curated showcase. Progress will be adjusted based on findings from a process evaluation, which will help the museum field and visitors get a behind the scenes look at community driven design solutions. As a result, the museum will provide a platform for individuals with disabilities to share their stores and expertise in the development of designs that serve disability communities and the museum field.