Turma Capital: Disability, Accessibility and Museums

This course presents a critical approach to accessibility in museums and cultural institutions, understanding it as public policy, relational practice, and strategic architecture of access beyond technical solutions and checklists. It draws on the Brazilian Inclusion Law, the UN Convention, and ICOM's contemporary museum definition, framing cultural access as a right. The course engages with Josélia Neves (2018), authors of the ABA Accessibility Counter-Handbook (CODEA, 2020), and SISEM-SP technical recommendations on disability and accessibility in museums, challenging ableism and questioning the concept of inclusion. It presents accessibility as a process that reorganizes relationships, experiences, and forms of participation in cultural spaces, emphasizing the construction of experiences through interaction among diverse people. It centers the agency of people with disabilities not only as museum audiences but as subjects of memory and cultural producers, building museological processes in dialogue with social movements of people with disabilities.