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• Part 1 Cultural policies concerning disabled people, in France and abroad; Chapter 1 European policy for the integration of disabled people into cultural life, Bernhard M. Wehrens; Chapter 2 The policy of the Ministry of Culture in France, Dominique Charvet; Chapter 3 Access to historical monuments for disabled people, Anne Magnant; Chapter 4 ‘Cry Freedom’ after Attenborough, Peter Senior; Chapter 5 Facilities for disabled people in French national museums, Alain Erlande-Brandenburg; Chapter 6 The work of the Commission on the Disabled at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in Paris, and the Charter for the Disabled, Louis Avan; Chapter 7 The ‘Handicap and Culture’ programme at the Fondation de France, Nancy Breitenbach; Chapter 8 Changing basic attitudes, Frans Schouten; Part 2 Funding possibilities; Chapter 9 Museums and sponsorship, Roland May; Chapter 10 The Fondation de France as sponsor, Sylvie Tsyboula; Chapter 11 The Carnegie United Kingdom Trust; Part 3 Museums and physical disabilities; Chapter 12 Adapting historic buildings to make them accessible to the disabled, Francisco García Aznarez; Chapter 13 The needs of people with walking handicaps. The Association des Paralysés de France, Pascal Dubois; Chapter 14 The training of architects in Europe, Piero Cosulich; Chapter 15 Ergonomics and museology, Louis-Pierre Grosbois; Chapter 16 Accessibility at the Greater Louvre, Paris, C. C. Pei; Chapter 17 Accessibility at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Jean-Paul Philippon; Chapter 18 The ‘Venice for all’ project, Italy, Piero Cosulich; Part 4 Museums and people with impaired vision; Chapter 19 Museums and the visually handicapped, Marcus Weisen; Chapter 20 The many forms of visual handicap, Robert Benoist; Chapter 21 An introduction to art as a means to a therapy to be practised by disabled and non-sighted people, Michel Bourgeois-Lechartier; Chapter 22 The blind and museums, Gilles Grandjean; Chapter 23 Art and the visual handicap. A role for t

`It provides a guide to the best modern museum practice in respect to disability and sets out an agenda for future action in museums worldwide.' - Leisure, Recreation and Tourism