The first results of monitoring the accessibility of Ukrainian museums within the Inclusive Travels in Ukraine project were presented at the "Travel Ukraine" festival in Kyiv.

It is appropriate to consider the possibility of improving existing and developing special norms and guidelines to ensure barrier-free access in the field of museums, other objects of cultural, historical and natural heritage. It also seems potentially effective to establish a "minimum standard of accessibility" for the mentioned objects, which would allow to achieve uniformity, stability and consistency in the implementation of steps towards barrier-free and universal accessibility of spaces.

Volodymyr Vysotskyi, an expert of the project "Inclusive Travels in Ukraine: accessibility of museums of Ukraine", made such preliminary conclusions during the presentation of the first results of the project within the panel discussion on inclusive tourism at the "Travel Ukraine" festival at the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine in Kyiv.

So, the preliminary statistics of the presence of some conditions of accessibility in museums:
    • Inclusive parking – 18%
    • Marked path to the building – 15.5%
    • Accessible entrance to the building – 52%
    • Signs in the building – 43.5%
    • Tactile indoor navigation – 0%
    • Inclusive exposure – 31%
    • Inclusive restroom - 8%

To date, the project has received about 200 completed questionnaires from Ukrainian museums. And although the official deadlines for questionnaires have already passed today and the stage of museum monitoring by volunteers is beginning, the project continues to accept questionnaires from museum institutions. Every involvement in the project and every answer is valuable for us!