Accesibility at the Photographic Archive of Barcelona
The Photographic Archive of Barcelona aims to guarantee access to the photographic collections it conserves. For this reason, it is carrying out an accessibility project to eliminate the communication barriers that prevent access to historical and cultural content for part of the population.
The equipment is accessible to people with reduced mobility (wheelchair lift access and adapted toilets).
The AFB works to integrate accessibility criteria for people with physical or mental disabilities and for the visually and hearing impaired.
Since 2016 it has implemented an audio-description resource for some photographs to make the content of the temporary exhibitions it presents more accessible.
In the exhibition: "Darius Koehli. Inside Poblenou" on the urban and social changes of Poblenou, an audio description of 10 photographs has been carried out.
In the exhibition "Huellas. Humberto Rivas" on the traces left by the Civil War, an audio-description was made of 10 photographs, which were integrated into a blog called "La voz del Archivo" (The Voice of the Archive). This blog was a 2016 project by six students of the Master in Cultural Heritage Management and Museology of the University of Barcelona, with the aim of collaborating to make photographic heritage accessible to those people who suffer from any kind of visual impairment and who, without initiatives like this, would be deprived of enjoying an important part of our culture.
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