S2 - Make heritage more accessible
Our heritage is a common good, remote or on site, it should be accessible to the target groups and their needs. Use the broad spectrum of methods and techniques available for developing the heritage experience.
S2 Challenges
Societal challenges
- Living in peace
- Improving quality of life
- Establishing good governance
- Optimising implementation of the conventions
Development challenges
- Building a more inclusive and cohesive society
- Ensuring that Europeans enjoy a high quality of life, in harmony with their cultural and natural environment
Knowledge challenges
- Helping to foster a shared knowledge society
- Raising awareness of the values conveyed by heritage
S2 Target audience
- local
- regional
- national
- European
Recommended courses of action for S2
- Carry out improvements to enhance site safety and to enable, as far as possible, access by visitors with physical or sensory disabilities
- Carry out analyses and, in the light of these, improve signage
- Devise presentation wording and methods from an ethical perspective to respond to the diversity of the target audiences and their interpretations of the heritage
- Introduce incentives for specific groups (young people, not frequent users, etc.)
- Run awareness-raising campaigns (press, children’s press, games/competitions, etc.)
- Produce multilingual presentation and interpretation material
- Devise interactive, fun, creative presentation methods
- Introduce visitors to different ways of perceiving the heritage
- Develop heritage experiences combining different forms of cultural expression (dance, music, traditional or new skills, gastronomy, etc.) and appealing to different sides of human nature (senses, feelings, knowledge)
- Produce audio visual programmes
- Encourage remote virtual discovery of heritage using the latest technologies and social networks
- Collect and showcase citizens’ accounts of heritage
- Promote an interdisciplinary approach to heritage
Good practices for S2
Blue artism: museum educational methodology for children within Autistic spectrum
Heritage as a means of emancipation for mentally and multiple handicapped people
- Strategy 21 - Social component (S)
- S1 - Encourage the involvement of citizens and local authorities in capitalising on their everyday heritage
- S2 - Make heritage more accessible
- S3 - Use heritage to assert and transmit the fundamental values of Europe and European society
- S4 - Promote heritage as a meeting place and vehicle for intercultural dialogue, peace and tolerance
- S5 - Encourage and assess citizen participation practices and procedures
- S6 - Create a suitable framework to enable local authorities and communities to take action for the benefit of their heritage and its management
- S7 - Develop and promote participatory heritage identification programmes
- S8 - Encourage heritage rehabilitation initiatives by local communities and authorities
- S9 - Support intergenerational and intercultural projects to promote heritage
- S10 - Facilitate and encourage (public and private) partnerships in cultural heritage promotion and conservation projects