DeafMuseums - Exhibition

Abstract

This exhibition was created as part of an Erasmus+ project entitled ‘Deaf Museums’ (www.deafmuseum.eu). Seven European partners have worked together to produce a series
of Deaf Exhibitions and to amass a wealth of resources online for anyone thinking of setting up a Deaf Museum or Exhibition.
The main Project aim is to preserve Deaf Heritage and Deaf History. Our exhibition is centred around three themes: Deaf Access, Deaf Place – specifically, the Deaf Workplace and Deaf Space. We have then divided each theme into The Past, The Present and the Future. The idea is to see how Deaf lives were in the past; how they are now and how we envisage them to be in the future. For the data, we interviewed a wide cross-section of Deaf people and asked them about their Deaf lives. It is interesting
to see how the lives of Deaf people have differed over the generations and how different people foresee the future lives of the Deaf community.

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