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Initially we went to larger museums and conducted
in these measure areas, audience research.

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So we sat down with groups of people with
vision loss and often people that also have

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other disabilities, and looked at their needs
and preferences as they pertain to museum

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visits.

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It was a very mixed group of people, some
of whom were art aficionados, some of whom

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have never been to museums, some of whom used
to be museum members and just stopped going

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once they acquired a disability.

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We have now finished looking at the data from
this research.

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We partnered with Christine Reich and her
team at the Museum of Science, Boston.

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And so, they helped us both to create an instrument
to conduct these focus groups, as well as

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process the data.

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And that will be-- is released in the form
of white paper, and will be published into

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professional publication.

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What we would like smaller museums to do is
to take the same tools that we developed and

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piloted with large metro museums and see--
and pilot those themselves.

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And we’re very excited about the data that
will be coming in because we have museums

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that are so diverse from having a couple of
volunteers to having sort of a horizontal

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staff structure, and maybe eight to fifteen,
or even a couple dozen employees.

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And so, we’re very excited to see if-- how
these museums would be able to use these materials

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and start an accessible program on this scale.

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As the study unfolds, I think that one of
the critical things that Art Beyond Sight

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team, but also Museum of Science, Boston team
that Christine Reich is leading, one of the

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things that we’re truly interested in looking
at is organizational change.

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And that includes not only launch and maintaining
a program that is lasing, but does it take

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root in the museum team.

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Does it become an issue that’s important
across museum departments?

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Or is it just one person’s pet project�