Deadline: 15-Sep-2020
Central European Initiative (CEI) is seeking applications for the COME-IN! Label to promote accessibility and inclusion aiming at a museum experience for all. It aims at being a worldwide label for museums engaged in accessibility, promoting democracy, non-discrimination and equal opportunities, as well as accessible culture and equal cultural rights for all interested people.
It also promotes new ways of thinking and accessing culture through multi-sensory experiences and innovative approaches. Furthermore, it aims at raising awareness of various dimensions of the added value of inclusion as well as giving promising and reliable information for visitors with disabilities.
Benefits
For a period of 5 years, the awarded museums get the following benefits:
- access to a network of museums dealing with accessibility and inclusion;
- authorisation to use the label and its graphics;
- information on training and access to training material;
- networking and exchange of experiences and good practices with other museums;
- a better chance to get funded;
- promotion and visibility through the COME-IN! communication channels;
- pride to be « open to all » and inner growth of their trained operators;
- increase of frequentation and enlargement of a wider public;
- growing image and profit.
Duties
The duties of the awarded museum are:
- continuous development in improving accessibility;
- filling in the re-evaluation form every 5 years;
- fulfill the 4 criteria continuously;
- communicate the COME-IN! Label online and in publications.
Eligibility Criteria
Any Museum may apply for the label. For COME-IN!, a museum is:
- a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment;
- of any size;
- anywhere in the world
Other cultural activities, other non-cultural activities and individuals cannot apply to the label.
For more information, visit https://www.cei.int/news/8867/call-for-applications-for-come-in-label-promoting-museum-accessibility-and-inclusion-for-all