If you’ve ever been to a museum, you know the number one rule is to keep your hands to yourself and not touch the displays. But for someone with an invisible or sensory disability, these decades-long practices are more a deterrent than an incentive to visit.
Companies across the travel industry realize they’re missing out on revenue by not servicing the invisible disabled community with trillions of dollars in disposable income. How are policies changing to become more inclusive and allow sensory-friendly programming?
Once a month on “Sensory Saturday,” the North Carolina Maritime Museum in Southport removes voice recordings throughout the museum, dims the lights, and offers hands-on crafts for visitors with sensory disabilities during the two-hour program.
While many companies offer standard disabled accessibility for people with mobility restrictions, providing these accommodations is important because sensory disabiliti