People with disabilities visit art museums: An exploratory study of obstacles and difficulties

Journal of Heritage Tourism

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 117-129

  Poria, Yaniv ^a   Reichel, Arie ^a   Brandt, Yael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Art museums; People with disabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017312373     PISSN: 1743873X     EISSN: 17476631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17438730802366508     Document Type: Article

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