Museums

  • Africa
    • 🇷🇼 Kigali Deaf Art Gallery – Founded by a deaf person, this art gallery provides employment to deaf Rwandans, offers workshops, and has art available for sale.
  • Asia
    • 🇮🇱 Invitation to Silence – Located at the Holon Children’s Museum, Israel.
    • 🇯🇵 Sign and Deaf Museum Japan – Physical museum under development; virtual museum showcases the rich culture, history, and everyday life of deaf people in Japan.
    • 🇹🇭 Thai Museum of the Deaf – On the campus of Mahidol University.
  • Europe
    • 🇳🇱 Deaf Education Museum of the Netherlands – This deaf education museum in the Netherlands is housed in a historical building that once was a deaf school. Only a virtual tour is available on their website.
    • 🇮🇪 Deaf Heritage Centre – Collates, maintains and protects artifacts, materials and records of the Irish Deaf community, going back over 200 years.
    • 🇬🇧 Deaf Heritage Centre – Originally established by the British Deaf History Society and now run by the British Deaf Association.
    • 🇳🇴 Døvehistorisk museum i Bergen Døvesenter – Deaf history museum at the Deaf Centre in Bergen, Norway.
    • 🇫🇮 Finnish Museum of the Deaf – National Deaf history museum for Finland.
    • 🇫🇷 Musée d’Histoire et de Culture des Sourds – This museum, at Louhans, France, offers multi-layered coverage of the history of Deaf culture, the Deaf community, and sign language, with a special focus on Ferdinand Berthier, 19th century Deaf rights and Signed Language rights pioneer.
    • 🇫🇷 Musée-Patrimoine des Sourds de Rouen et de Normandie – Housed in Rouen, France, at the Association des Sourds de la Métropole Rouen-Normandie (ASMRN), this museum preserves the Deaf history of Rouen and Normandy with a special focus on Louis Capon, early French Deaf teacher, school director and Deaf community leader, and Georges Bellais, Deaf community leader.
    • 🇳🇴 Norsk Døvemuseum – The Norwegian national Deaf museum in Trondheim.
  • North America
  • Oceania
    • 🇳🇿 Ko Taku Reo Virtual Museum – In 2020, the Van Asch (Christchurch) and Kelston (Auckland) Deaf Education Centers (Deaf schools) merged into Ko Taku Reo, the new national Deaf education organization. The weblink shows both schools’ Deaf history rooms in a virtual museum.
  • South America
    • 🇵🇾 Museo de Arte Sordo – Opened in September 2025 at the Instituto Desarrollo in Asunción. May be a temporary exhibition.