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1 Assignment co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the COMPETE 2020-Operational Programme Competitiveness and Internationalization (POCI) and national funds by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) under the POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007460 project. REPRESENTING DISABILITY IN MUSEUMS. IMAGINARY AND IDENTITIES 14 distancing of this social group. In this sense, this chapter addresses the importance of museums as essential spaces for communicating ideas that may lead to social transformation and to a change of attitudes towards disability.

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Patrícia Roque Martins seeks in her chapter to value the possibilities that exist in the alliance between the historic-artistic heritage and the development of inclusive practices that can generate new realities and more positive identities concerning the blind or partially sighted. Therefore, she will address the main aspects that have influenced how access to art museums has been promoted in Portugal regarding this social group, and explore its relevance towards building this social group's identity.