Join us on Sunday, December 1, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM for a special afternoon at the Toronto Holocaust Museum, in partnership with the Miles Nadal JCC and the Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence, in honour of International Day of Persons with Disabilities. This free, self-guided experience will feature adjustments throughout the Museum to create a more accessible environment for visitors with sensory sensitivities.
Learning about the Holocaust can be challenging. This tragic and nuanced history is full of complexities. This unique program will address the Holocaust through diverse lenses including storytelling, tradition, identity, and Canadian values, ensuring multiple touchpoints for learners of all ages and stages. Reflective activities in the THM’s Ekstein Family Learning Lab space will utilize artmaking and deeper artifact exploration as ways to help process the experience and history.
Your visit will begin in the Museum’s theatre where you will learn about prewar Jewish life. In the Learning Lab, you can engage in reflective and art making activities, learn more about individual artifacts, or take a break from the exhibition space.
Our goal is to offer a welcoming and inclusive space for those who may face barriers to accessing museums, providing multiple ways to engage and ensuring everyone can connect with the Museum’s powerful stories and history in ways that best suit their needs.
This program is open to those with sensory needs and sensitivities, those with sensory processing disorders, deaf and hard of hearing folks, and other people with sensory needs that pose barriers to museum environments. Please feel free to reach out to the Toronto Holocaust Museum should you have any questions.
Sensory Kits
The Toronto Holocaust Museum aims to be an inclusive, accessible, and sensory-friendly environment for all visitors. The THM has sensory kits onsite to offer visitors auditory and tactile supports during their visit. Our sensory kits include:
- Headphones to reduce noise (adult & child size)
- Visual timer
- Sunglasses to reduce brightness
- Bubble popper fidget toy
- Assortment of textured soft fidget toys
Accessibility
The entry to the building and Museum exhibit is equipped with wheelchair access via elevator. There will also be an ASL interpreter onsite. The Museum also has folding stools that are available for visitors to use throughout the galleries.
This is a joint event and the collection and use of personal information of registrants will be subject to the privacy policy of each of the Miles Nadal JCC and the Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence.
Generously supported by UJA’s Kultura Collective.
