In this presentation, Charles Eppley (they/he) will provide a historical overview of strategies for disability inclusion in US museums, ca. 1960-present. Eppley will specifically discuss the Lion’s Gallery of the Senses, a multisensory gallery at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in Hartford, CT, in the late 1970s. They will discuss how the gallery was first conceived as a “gallery of touch” in partnership with the Connecticut Institute for the Blind (today known as Oak Hill) and describe how the gallery expanded to other sensory modalities, especially sound and listening, over the next decade. Eppley will contextualize this gallery in the rising disability rights movement and subsequent passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990. Finally, Eppley will describe how contemporary disability arts practitioners have developed the concept and strategy of “access artistry,” which centers disability inclusion at the earliest stages of curatorial planning, to critically intervene in a post-ADA compliance model of inclusion that has taken hold in US museums over the past three decades.