Until the end of 2022 the Dr. Guislain Museum is one of the participating partners in the project MindTour (Mindful Tourism Services for Mentally Disordered People). This Erasmus + funded project aims to make tourism organisations (with a special focus on museums) more accessible to people with intellectual disabilities and/or mental vulnerability.
Budget for the total project: 232.539 euro
Project partners:
Estonia: University of Tartu and Pärnu Museum
Latvia: University of Latvia and Zeit Hotel
Belgium: Thomas More Mechelen-Antwerpen and Dr. Guislain Museum
Main target groups:
Organisations that offer tourism services
Persons with intellectual disabilities and/or mental vulnerability and their families
The participating higher education institutions
Results:
Situation scan of the current regional tourism services for people with intellectual disabilities and/or mental vulnerability. Read here: Belgium, Estonia, Latvia
To develop and test prototypes of tourism services
Implementation roadmap for the creation and upscaling of the prototypes
Assessment tool for the evaluation of accessibility of tourism services for people with intellectual disabilities and/or mental vulnerability
The results of this study will be published through various channels and methods. The final report, The MindTour Book, can be found here.
Project collaborators Dr. Guislain Museum:
Yoon Hee Lamot: exhibitions, communication and international projects
Kristine Timperman: educational service and community projects
Project website: sisu.ut.ee/mindtour
