In exclusive interview to JSON.TV Elaine Addington, Open Museum Curator at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre shares experience of IT technology usage in Scotland museums for people with disabilities. They are using a lot of touch screens and audio, also show very interesting experience of applying 3-D computer game Minecraft for the museum needs. The game interface is used to build historical events or buildings and objects modeling.
Leading experts from the major museums of the world - New York Metropolitan, Tate Gallery in London and the program "Open Museum" from Glasgow - held master classes at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art "Garage" on September 29. Workshops were held in the framework of large-scale three-day training "Museum of sensations", to ensure the availability of museums for visitors with impaired hearing, vision, and deaf-blind, organized by the "Garage" together with Deaf-blind Support Fund So-edinenie (Connection).
