people and adults with disabilities. The caravan, designed by artists Bruce Odland and Michael Luck Schneider, is fitted with technical devices that create sensory responses to sights, sounds and vibrations. The dedicated Bella Room was installed in the National Centre for Creative learning in 2012. Each year a new artist is commissioned to produce a work in the Bella Room concerned with a different type of disability. The room offers a sensory environment in which students, led by artist-educators, can interact with art. GENEXT 'GENEXT' has been held since 2005 as a public engagement program aimed at young people aged from 12 to 18, run by MCA's Youth Committee. GENEXT is an after-hours program that includes activities such as live music, discussions, and art workshops. It is held four times annually and included over 16,000 participants over the course of its first ten years of operation. In collaboration with the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Museum of Contemporary Art takes part in the Sydney Festival and the Biennale of Sydney, an event held partially online in 2020 due to the pandemic. MCA Zine Fair The annual MCA Zine Fair, first held in 2008, is organised in conjunction with the Sydney Writers' Festival. Held on the front lawn of the MCA, it features over 50 stalls of new and established zine artists. The Artful: Art and Dementia In 2016, The Artful: Art and Dementia program was launched as a three-year research collaboration between the MCA, the Brain and Mind Centre, the University of Sydney and Dementia Australia with the goal of establishing a link between art and enhanced neuroplasticity. The program continues annually. The six-week program includes a tour of selected works throughout the museum, weekly two-hour creative art-making sessions with trained artist-educators, and an 'Artful at home' package containing materials for art-making at home. The final week of the program is an exhibition session, in which participants' friends and family are invited to view their art. In 2020, the program launched an online digital toolkit to enable offsite participation. See also Architecture of Sydney List of art museums and galleries in Australia List of contemporary art museums List of most-visited art museums List of museums in Sydney Notes References External links Museum of Contemporary Art official website Archived version of Museum of Contemporary Art Artabase page [CC-By-SA]. (Building that formerly occupied site, demolished 1939.) Museum of Contemporary Art