MUSACCES busca hacer accesible el patrimonio cultural del Museo del Prado a invidentes, personas sordas y reclusos en cárceles

Resumen

The enormous difficulties that people with special accessibility, including blind and deaf people, found to appreciate the art treasures of the Museums are well known. Aware of this problem, the research group CAPIRE, attached to the Complutense University of Madrid, organized an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional consortium of 82 professionals of eight research groups belonging to the UCM, UNED and UAM universities to bring, through the most modern ICT, the artistic heritage of the Prado Museum to three groups of special accessibility: blind, deaf and inmates in correctional institutions. In November 2015 the Community of Madrid approved the Project with an allocation of 205.005,9 euros for the triennium 2016-2018. Having started its triennial activities on last January 1, MUSACCES can offer in these seven months only the first basic results: the state of the question of the national and international initiatives on special accessibility to art and its application in museums; and to analyze the interests and needs of each of the three groups with special accessibility with reference to artistic heritage of the Prado Museum. The conclusions stand in the integrated work that the eight participant research groups are doing according to their competence to achieve during this triennium the scientific-technological products that allow the three groups with special accessibility to appreciate the treasures of the Prado Museum.