Creative Commons

This dissertation aims to investigate ways that can be used by a museum and generally by a cultural institution to enable the access to audiences and artists that are usually excluded because of a physical condition. More specifically it will focus on how digital technology could be applied as an inclusive practise in art and in a museum environment for engaging people who experience visual impairment or blindness. The case of Mind’s Eye| Opening Arts to the visually impaired 2019/20” an initiative by Stela Anastasaki supported by START-Create Cultural Change program and implemented in collaboration with MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art and CERB (Center for the Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind) will be presented as an example of joining digital technology and contemporary art together aiming for social inclusivity, equality and access for the blind. At last, the research showed that although cultural institutions use alternative and innovative practices, including digital technology, for engaging the blind there is no a detailed and in-depth list of the digital technologies that could find their application in the museum environment for this purpose so there would be an attempt to make a list of them in the hope that it will act as an advisory tool for the museums.