May 28, 2026 · 42 min · 14 segments
Send us Fan Mail How do museums engage with accessibility, both as spaces that welcome visitors and as collections of human stories? On this…
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Ollie DouglasHost
Anahita HardingGuest
Joe VaughnHost
Welcome to Absolute Units, the official podcast of the Museum of English Rural Life.
Anahita has been a Curating Visibility fellow at the Food Museum in Stowmarket.
The Food Museum's an amazing museum, so you should all go and visit the Food Museum.
Um, and Anahita is amazingly talented, uh, and informative voice in relation to disability and disability advocacy.
Her practice and performance work is extraordinary, and the work that she's been doing with the Food Museum has been centered on challenges around food and interpreting food-related collections with disability in mind.
So today's conversation is all about disability, disability history, and also about accessibility more broadly, so the challenges that heritage sites and museums face in relation to, uh, opening them up and making them inclusive and welcoming spaces to everyone.
It was a great conversation, and it also followed a tour of the galleries that Anahita gave this morning, uh, which was, which was brilliant as well.
Um, and unusually for us, we actually had a museum object out on the table this time as well, which we talk about later in the podcast.
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Welcome to Absolute Units, the official podcast of the Museum of English Rural Life.
Anahita has been a Curating Visibility fellow at the Food Museum in Stowmarket.
The Food Museum's an amazing museum, so you should all go and visit the Food Museum.
Um, and Anahita is amazingly talented, uh, and informative voice in relation to disability and disability advocacy.
Her practice and performance work is extraordinary, and the work that she's been doing with the Food Museum has been centered on challenges around food and interpreting food-related collections with disability in mind.
So today's conversation is all about disability, disability history, and also about accessibility more broadly, so the challenges that heritage sites and museums face in relation to, uh, opening them up and making them inclusive and welcoming spaces to everyone.
It was a great conversation, and it also followed a tour of the galleries that Anahita gave this morning, uh, which was, which was brilliant as well.
Um, and unusually for us, we actually had a museum object out on the table this time as well, which we talk about later in the podcast.