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Making Inclusive Museums Now
Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
Category: Webinars

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Making Inclusive Museums Now

Tuesday, March 18 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. ET

FREE for members; $15 for non-members 

Joel Sanders, the founding Principal of JSA/MIXdesign, a New York-based inclusive design studio, will share the MIXmuseum Toolkit, an outcome of the MIXmuseum initiative. This set of design recommendations can transform galleries and key public spaces that shape the visitor’s experience—reception, lobby/atrium, circulation, and restrooms—into physically and socially accessible spaces that allow people of different ages, genders, races, religions, and abilities to mix. These guidelines operate across scales and disciplines, considering the role that architecture, interiors, exhibition design, graphics, and landscape play in the visitor experience.

Joel Sanders, FAIA, is the founding Principal of JSA/MIXdesign, an architectural studio and inclusive design consultancy dedicated to making everyday building types accessible and welcoming to people of different ages, genders, abilities, cultural identities, and religions. In addition to being Principal of JSA/MIXdesign, Sanders is a Professor at Yale School of Architecture and Yale School of Public Health, where he teaches classes that examine the intersection of architecture and mental and physical health. His projects have been featured in international exhibitions and the permanent collections of MoMA, SFMoMA, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Carnegie Museum of Art.

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Closed captioning and ASL interpretation are both available for all webinars. For the most accessible viewing experience, we recommend watching the webinar on a desktop computer or laptop screen. For more information or to request other access services, please contact the Office of Accessibility and VSA at (202) 416-8727 (voice) or [email protected].