PPD: User Friendly Exhibits: Designing Accessible Exhibits for Science Museums

1997年，科学技术中心协会发起了一项倡议，使其成员机构熟悉为更好地满足残疾人，特别是残疾青年的需要而面临的挑战和机遇。拟议的“方便用户的展品：为科学博物馆设计无障碍展品”项目是一个信息传播项目，将从根本上改变科学博物馆的开发和测试方式，从而使科学博物馆成为对残疾人更具吸引力的地方。在这一项目的三年中，ASTC将在ASTC年会之前举办一系列六个区域培训讲习班和三个讲习班，培训在科学博物馆和科学丰富的机构工作的展品设计专业人员，如何使展品为残疾人提供便利。将有ASTC成员机构以及由四个国家专业组织代表的富有科学知识的机构参加。据估计，来自100个科学博物馆的330名展览策划者将接受这一培训，对科学中心领域的展览设计基础设施产生长期影响。研讨会的教职员工将从50多名具有残疾个人和专业经验的个人中挑选出来，ASTC在1997年NSF规划拨款的工作过程中与他们联系，以在ASTC的网页上创建一个无障碍博物馆实践的信息交换中心。科学博物馆每年为1200多万学童、家庭学校学生、暑期项目参与者以及青少年讲解员和助理提供科学丰富活动。科学中心和博物馆、天文馆、自然步道、动物园、配置以及学校和家庭项目的展品和项目支持多M661，这是一种适应不同学习兴趣的体验式学习。ASTC是世界上最大的科学博物馆组织。它的年度会议是致力于培养好奇心和探索世界的机会，增强终身学习过程的领域工作人员最大的专业聚会。

In 1997, the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) launched an initiative to familiarize its member institutions with the challenges and opportunities for better meeting the needs of persons with disabilities and, in particular, young people with disabilities. The proposed project "User Friendly Exhibits: Designing Accessible Exhibits for Science Museums" is an information dissemination project that will help make science museums more inviting places for persons with disabilities by fundamentally changing the way science museums are developed and tested. Over the three years of this project, ASTC will conduct a series of six Regional Training Workshops and three workshops prior to the ASTC annual conference to train exhibit design professionals working in science museums and science-rich institutions in ways to make exhibits accessible to persons with disabilities. Participation will be drawn from ASTC member institutions as well as science-rich institutions represented by four national profession organizations. An estimated 330 exhibit planners from 100 science museums will receive this training, making a long-term impact on the infrastructure of exhibit design in the science center field. Faculty for the workshops will be drawn from more than 50 individuals with personal and professional experience with disabilities who were contacted by ASTC in the course of work on a 1997 NSF planning grant to create an information clearinghouse for accessible museum practices on ASTC's web page. Science museums provide science enrichment activities for well over 12 million school children each year, as well as home schoolers, summer program participants, and teenage explainers and assistants. The exhibits and programs of science centers and museums, planetariums, nature trails, zoos, collocations, and school and family programs support multi-m661, experiential learning that accommodates different learning interests. ASTC is the world's largest organization of science museums. Its annual conference is the largest professional gathering for people working in a field dedicated to fostering curiosity and opportunities for exploring the world, enhancing a learning process throughout life.