About this site

Early 2020, a consortium of several EU organisations submitted an application for funding for a new Erasmus+ project: Deaf Museums in Europe. Waiting for the results of the  selection process, I started to search the internet for information that would be relevant for our Deaf Museums project. It started out as something I could do in corona-times, at home, behind my computer.

It was addictive. If you take your time and search well, long, and sometimes at random, there are many things to be found: useful, interesting, beautiful, fun, or all of the above.

The Deaf Museums project WAS selected for funding, the starting date was October 1, 2020. 

Deaf Museums Project

The project's website: www.deafmuseums.eu 
Our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/deafmuseums 
And we're also on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deafmuseums/

I transferred the information that I had collected on Deaf History in Europe to this site: www.deafhistory.eu.
Both sites are still very much work in progress, and I hope there will be a very active interaction between the two sites.

On the Deaf Museums website you will find information about the project.

In short: during the project's lifetime (30 months), partners in the consortium will produce exhibitions. An exhibition can be a physical exhibition or a virtual one on the internet. Unfortunately, the funding does not allow us to found a real Museum of the Deaf. But we'd like to see our exhibitions as 'Tiny Museums'.
 
We still have to decide what our tiny museums will be about. Deaf Education? Deaf Culture in one of our countries? Deaf Art? Deaf Sports? Deaf people during WWII? Deaf Migrants? Too many options! We will select 5 topics.
 
On the project's website, we will tell you about our progress:
  • What did we do first, what next?
  • What were our plans, what was the outcome?
  • What did we learn in the process - lessons that may be valuable to others who want to start a Deaf Museum: tiny, medium-sized, or even large.
Two of the partners in the consortium teach 'mainstream' museum skills. They will introduce the others to basic museum skills and know-how that may be useful to us - and later to you. Because we will pass on everything that we learn to everyone who visits the project's website.

Equally important: we have the support of two Deaf Museums: 

They will advise us, tell us the histories of their Museums, share what they have learned over the years.

Interesting? Yes! So visit our site, follow us on Facebook and Instagram!

This website

On this website, www.deafhistory.eu, you will find 

The advantage of the www.deafhistory.eu website: you can find a lot of information about Deaf History in Europe in one location., All information is in English, but you can use Google Translate to translate the information in your own written language. We have included links to the original sources, where you can find more information. 

For the www.deafhistory.eu I am using information that I found on the internet. I am in the process of finding and adding the original sources of these materials. If you are the owner of one of the materials (texts, photos, videos) on this website and you do NOT want me to use these here: please let me know and I'll remove the item immediately. You can mail me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

Liesbeth Pyfers, October 2020

Do you have corrections, comments, suggestions for information that should be added? Please mail me: lThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.!

This website is partially funded under the Erasmus+ programme of the EU. 

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The European Commission's support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents, which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein. 

Project number: 2020-1-IT02-KA204-079582

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