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The museum seeks participants with lived experience of disability to uncover and digitally interpret hidden histories from its collection.
Dover Museum is to recruit a group of up to eight people to help it interpret stories of disability from its collection.
The Curating Visibility project, delivered by Screen South’s Accentuate programme, is funded by Arts Council England. It will see stories selected through a lived experience of d/Deafness, disability or neurodiversity.
The museum said participants in the project will “help us find the best way of telling these stories through digital technology”.
Stories and tales from Dover’s history have been uncovered by Curating Visibility fellow Karl Mercer and the team at Dover Museum, who have found objects and stories about smugglers, gladiators, illustrators, soldiers, channel swimmers and medieval pilgrims.
The stories to be selected and told through technology will be selected by the group.
The museum is one of three taking part in the project, which also include The Food Museum in Stowmarket and The Imperial War Museum in Duxford.
The museum said participants will be compensated for their time, travel, and provided with hot drinks and snacks.
