The podcast
Do not touch! It is the podcast series that touches, moves, and rearranges ideas about cultural places.
There is the underlying idea that cultural heritage is either accessible or it isn’t, the series composes a journey of discovery through practices and perspectives of cultural accessibility. The extra episode Fairy tales are true: the accessible future of museums tells the story of the design of an exhibition that was a manifesto and a vision and method workshop.
The podcast is produced within Personeper. Accessibility in cultural places, an initiative funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU under the PNRR Cultura 4.0, implemented by the Directorate General Museums of the Ministry of Culture, curated by the National School of Heritage and Cultural Activities.
Do not touch!
a podcast curated by Giovanna Brambilla
What do we talk about when we talk about accessibility of cultural places? We talk about tools - tactile maps, stairlifts, LIS videos - strategies and practices, but above all we talk about ideas: about the very idea of cultural heritage and the role we imagine it should have for the individual and for the community. Who can enter? Who stays out? Who decides what is valuable?
Starting from a familiar prohibition — that “Don’t touch!” we still read in many exhibition spaces — the series invites you to do the opposite: touch ideas, move them, question them again.
Don't Touch! gathers the voices of twelve professionals who live and work in cultural places. An open dialogue between already active practices and perspectives yet to be imagined, to question what we take for granted and broaden the view on accessibility as a shared horizon: Giovanna Brambilla brings into dialogue Emanuela Daffra and Luca Dal Pozzolo, Mario Turci and Mara Sugni, Stefania Vannini and Nicola Stilla, Irene Balzani and Melania Longo, Cristiana Iommi and Luca Vitone, Laura Barreca and Chiara Bersani.
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Fairy tales are true: the accessible future of museums
curated by Miriam Mandosi
The podcast tells the story of the exhibition “Le fiabe sono vere… Storia popolare italiana”, a project that has surpassed the temporary exhibition dimension to establish itself as a manifesto of accessibility in museums. Not just an exhibition, but a laboratory of vision and method, capable of demonstrating how design, spaces, and languages can be rethought so that cultural heritage is truly shared.
Through the voices of those who conceived and realized this experience, the story retraces the motivations behind the exhibition, the conditions that made its realization possible, and the challenges faced along the way, outlining its cultural and professional legacy.
Speakers include Andrea Viliani, former Director of the Museum of Civilizations, and Maria Rosaria Lo Muzio, curator of the exhibition design project. Weaving the different narrative threads is Miriam Mandosi, head of the accessibility working group.
