What would we people with disabilities want in such a museum: braces, iron lungs, wheelchairs, art, sports, literature, films, plays? We could show how people like FDR, Helen Keller, and other people with disabilities have achieved success in music, politics, the theater, films and on TV.
No disability would be left out.
What are your ideas? Let me know. You can email me below. But where should such a museum be built? What city? What state? One thing I think we all would want in such a museum would be ramps. Nowhere in our museum would there be single step. Neither would there be a single elevator. It would be totally accessible. I see our museum something like the Guggenheim in Manhattan, where there is one long ramp. And I also see our museum something like the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC.
The interesting thing about the National Holocaust Museum is its "authoritarian" layout. Unlike most museums where you chose where you will walk and what you will see, the National Holocaust Museum was designed to make you walk along a single, linear path. You are not free to chose your way, as the Jews were not free to chose their way in the concentration camps.
Many of us were not free to chose how we would be treated when we were children. So the childhood area of our museum should be a path we create, not one the museum goer does. Then the museum goer moves along and into the adult area of our museum, paths diverge into areas such as arts, politics, music. Here the museum goer can then move about freely, making choices, choosing their own path, as many of us can now chose since we are adults. Yet, there should be roadblocks. We certainly encounter them. What can these roadblocks be? How does the museum goer get passed them?
Finally, what would we call our museum? Have you a name in mind? Let me know. Send me an email.