Mark Your Calendar for Our Upcoming Programs:
Wednesday, April 11, 2001- Evaluating Exhibitions
Check us out on the web at  www.museum-ed.org/culturalconnections/ for details.


Cultural Connections presents:
Wednesday, February 14, 2001, 2:30-5:00 p.m

ACCESSIBILITY IN EXHIBITIONS FOR VISITORS WHO ARE BLIND AND DEAF
at the Asian Art Museum/Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art & Culture


   How can an individual who is blind experience a painting? How can a visitor who is deaf participate in a docent tour? Two museum professionals will discuss program ideas and useful materials for visitors with these special needs. In the galleries of the Asian Art Museum people with disabilities will share their museum experiences and offer suggestions. Participants will discuss challenges and opportunities, and brainstorm ideas using the existing displays.
Speakers:

Elana Hornstein, Visitor Services Manager, Education Department, San Jose Museum of Art
Elly Wong, Docent Coordinator, Asian Art Museum (former Access Coordinator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York)

Program (please note change in our regular format - program precedes networking)
2:15-2:30                     Arrival/Check-in, Museum Classroom
2:30-3:15                     Speaker Presentations and Q&A
3:15-4:30                  Gallery Session
4:30-5:00                        Wrap Up, Networking & Refreshments

Program Fee          
Free for Cultural Connections members
$10 for non-members


Location                       
Asian Art Museum/Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture
  (same location as the de Young Museum)
75 Tea Garden Drive in Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA  94118
(415) 379-8895
http://www.asianart.org
Free parking is available on surrounding streets.


Directions
From North Bay: take the Golden Gate bridge. Stay in the right lane. Exit onto 19th Avenue South (a.k.a. Park Presidio Blvd). Turn right on Fulton, just before you enter Golden Gate Park. Take the next right, and the next right onto Cabrillo. Turn right on 10th Ave. Enter the Park, and turn left onto John F. Kennedy Drive. You are directly behind the Museum.

From the East Bay: After crossing the Bay Bridge stay in the right lanes. Exit at Fell Street and continue several blocks. After crossing Stanyan (in the Panhandle) veer right onto John F. Kennedy Drive. Turn left onto Tea Garden Drive. The Museum is on your right.

From the South Bay: Take 280 North and exit at 19th Avenue. Continue on 19th Avenue across Lincoln Avenue into Golden Gate Park. Once in the park, take the first available right onto Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive. Follow MLK Dr. until you are alongside the Arboretum. The
museum will be to your left.  
  
 
--
Chelsea Pickslay

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