MANSIL: Museum Access Network for Sensory Impairments (London)

MANSIL: Museum Access Network for Sensory Impairments (London)MANSIL: Museum Access Network for Sensory Impairments (London)MANSIL: Museum Access Network for Sensory Impairments (London)
  • About MANSIL
  • Online projects
  • Museum pop-ups
  • Audio Description
  • British Sign Language
  • Contact
  • Snake Goddess booklet
  • More
    • About MANSIL
    • Online projects
    • Museum pop-ups
    • Audio Description
    • British Sign Language
    • Contact
    • Snake Goddess booklet

MANSIL: Museum Access Network for Sensory Impairments (London)

MANSIL: Museum Access Network for Sensory Impairments (London)MANSIL: Museum Access Network for Sensory Impairments (London)MANSIL: Museum Access Network for Sensory Impairments (London)
  • About MANSIL
  • Online projects
  • Museum pop-ups
  • Audio Description
  • British Sign Language
  • Contact
  • Snake Goddess booklet

Into the labyrinth of The snake goddess

Introduction

Audio description (15 minutes)

Unguided viewing (3 minutes)

Close-up of the replicas of the two Minoan Snake Goddesses now in the Ashmolean Museum.

Part of 'The Many Lives of a Snake Goddess' project, this approach compares how three different English genres and styles shape our engagement with these figurines.   

Into the labyrinth

Unguided viewing (3 minutes)

Audio description (15 minutes)

Unguided viewing (3 minutes)

Back view of the replica of the Snake Goddess holding snakes up in the air.

Before listening to any of the recordings, we hope you are able to take a moment to view this object independently, then see how the later descriptions alter your perspective. 

Unguided viewing clip

Audio description (15 minutes)

Audio description (15 minutes)

Audio description (15 minutes)

Karly Allen provides an audio description of a figurine.  AD is a practice-based form of ekphrasis used to support blind and partially sighted people in museums and culture.

Audio Description clip

Mindfulness (8 minutes)

Poems by Ruth Padel (22 minutes)

Audio description (15 minutes)

Close up of the replica of the larger Snake Goddess now in the Ashmolean Museum.

Lucia van der Drift shows how we can use art  to take time out in a mindfulness approach, supporting the 'slow looking' movement.

Mindfulness clip

Poems by Ruth Padel (22 minutes)

Poems by Ruth Padel (22 minutes)

Poems by Ruth Padel (22 minutes)

Award-winning poet Ruth Padel has created 15 new poems reflecting on her personal take on these iconic figures and Minoan Crete.

Ruth Padel's readings

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Poems by Ruth Padel (22 minutes)

Poems by Ruth Padel (22 minutes)

Black and white image of a man looking at a series of photographs in an art gallery.

We invite you to enter the labyrinth of the Snake Goddess, from unguided viewing, AD, and mindfulness  to the escapism of poetry. 

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