The FHWS is involved in the project "Inclusive Museum at the Cathedral."

A cooperation within the scope of the 1st Würzburg Inclusion Weeks gave the students of the Bachelor of Social Work the opportunity to work together with the museology and psychological ergonomics of the University of Würzburg on a project entitled "Inclusive Museum" in the special module Social Work and Disability at the Würzburg-Schweinfurt University of Applied Sciences under the direction of Professor Dieter Kulke. Simone Doll-Gerstendörfer, lecturer in museology and freelancer with the office "menschmuseum - Inklusive Kulturprojekte" and Stephan Huber, research associate in Psychological Ergonomics, organized a seminar "Klartext Kunst! Inclusive methods of communication and mediation for the Museum am Dom". In this seminar with students of museology, teaching and human-computer systems, exhibits of the Museum am Dom im Würzburg are to be placed in an inclusive context so that they can also be accessed by people with different impairments. To this end, a data collection and an inspection of the museum at the cathedral with visually impaired and intellectually impaired persons took place. Here an inspection of the museum with observation and questioning was accomplished with impaired participants, who were won over over the Bavarian blind and visually handicapped federation and the open handicapped work of the Evangelisch-Lutherischen Dekanats Schweinfurt. The results of this inspection were presented at a study day in the Museum am Dom. The task of Social Work was to contribute its expertise on the subject of disability and its experiences with and contacts with people with disabilities to the inspection and the study day.

On the study day, based on the inspection protocols and qualitative interviews with the impaired people, the barriers and ways of overcoming them were first systematically recorded as comprehensively as possible. Aspects that have to be considered are, for example, explanatory texts in comprehensible language for a better understanding of the art or audio or video guides with sign language videos. In addition, a virtual platform for exchange among museum visitors was proposed. Afterwards Stephan Huber presented his lecture "Den Besucher im Blick: Contextual design im Museum" presented a design process widely used in user experience design that is interesting in the context of the Museum am Dom, according to Professor Kulke. In his presentation "Disability Studies", Kulke informed about various models of disability and about a cultural-scientific view of representations of disabled people in film. Svenja Gaube from the Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin showed in her lecture "Challenges, opportunities and limitations of digital strategies: "Inclusion packen wir in die App!

Inclusion is a broad field - and of course also reaches into the cultural landscape. The goal of inclusion according to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is to increasingly abolish special facilities for people with disabilities and to open up the regular facilities and normal services and dismantle barriers in such a way that they become accessible for people with disabilities as well - and not only for them, but for all population groups. All population groups are addressed in the course of greater consideration of diversity: People with disabilities and people with escape experience, people with a migration background, old people, young people and others.

The demands of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities are directed at all publicly accessible institutions, including museums and galleries, which enable the widest possible participation in cultural offerings. In many cases their exhibits are hidden behind various barriers. Unfortunately, some museums are still not barrier-free according to DIN 18 040, so that wheelchair users have no or only difficult access. For visually impaired people, inadequate lighting or the lack of aids such as tactile models can be a major obstacle. And intellectually impaired people can find it difficult to access art if important background information on works of art and the museum is hidden in cryptic and difficult to understand texts or is not available at all.

Central to the success of the project is the excellent cooperation with Museum am Dom with its director Michael Koller, who already offers a whole range of inclusive measures such as guided tours for blind and visually impaired people. The results of the project are to be implemented in individual measures on the basis of two or three concrete works of art. All readers are invited to convince themselves of the accessibility and the increasingly inclusive character of the museum starting in autumn.