Aleksandrova, Lada Y. , Vatoropina, Svetlana V.
Kavkaz Forum. 2024. Issue 17.

Abstract:
The article presents the practices of foreign and domestic museums of
introducing inclusion into the museum environment. The modern understanding
of cultural inclusion is analyzed, various categories of visitors with “diverse
experiences” are considered, and effective inclusive practices are structured.
It traces the development of inclusive practices and how museums solve
the problems of creating conditions that are most conducive to people with
disabilities, creating departments for providing an accessible environment, which
began to use technical devices, mediation communication techniques, sign
language translation, recreational areas, etc. Segregation criteria are presented.
The presence of one or more segregation criteria in human life indicates the
need for inclusion - inclusion, social harmonization of a person in society.
Also, an inclusive environment is considered as an important condition that
contributes to overcoming social stigma in a democratic society. The experience
of the special department for support of visitors with disabilities and disabilities
of the Federal State Budgetary Institution «Novgorod State United Museum-
Reserve» is described. The cultural and historical potential of the Novgorod land
is increasingly arousing keen interest, both among Novgorodians and numerous
guests, creating, figuratively speaking, a “labor shortage”. The museum-reserve
faced a contradiction between the high demand for its cultural resources and the
insufficient ability to satisfy it. One of the ways to overcome this contradiction
was the long-term and multifaceted cooperation of the Museum with Novgorod
State University named after Yaroslav the Wise. Using the example of cooperation
between the Novgorod United Museum-Reserve and Novgorod State University
named after Yaroslav the Wise, student participation in various forms of helping
visitors with disabilities is considered.

Keywords: visitors with disabilities, project activities of universities, accessibility of the museum environment, inclusive landscape of the museum, inclusive practices in the field of culture, multidimensionality of culture, social stigmatization.

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