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Acoustiguide Introduces Five Tours to
London's Victoria & Albert Museum - Bringing Unprecedented Access to its Autumn
Exhibitions (London)
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Acoustiguide
has developed five exceptional tours in association with the Victoria and Albert
Museum, London, for their two autumn exhibitions: Leonardo da Vinci:
Experience, Experiment and Design, which runs from 14 September 2006 to 7
January 2007 and exhibits a fascinating collection of illustrations by one of
the greatest minds in history; and At Home in Renaissance Italy, which
runs from 5 October 2006 to 7 January 2007 and provides a insight into the
luxurious living of the Renaissance period that influenced the art of its time.
Leonardo da
Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design
is complemented by both an audio guide and a cutting edge multimedia tour.
Delivered on a hand-held device, originally designed as a gaming unit,
animations, video clips and still images of the highest quality are carefully
used to create an involving, enlightening tour. Animations of Leonardo drawings,
an ox-heart dissection, an MRI scan and recreations of Leonardo’s musical
instrument designs by potter Richard Baxter, are only a few of the video
contributions which help to bring this fascinating exhibition to life. The tour
also includes audio contributions from the curators Martin Kemp and Thereza
Wells.
Amanda Vickery, on Radio Four’s Saturday Review, commented: “The
Acoustiguide...is really like a well made programme…having a narrator talking
you through everything and talking you through what you should look at”, whilst
Kwame Kwei-Armah on BBC2’s Newsnight thought “the Multimedia handset was
wonderful.”.
To widen
access to this captivating information Acoustiguide partnered with Eyegaze, a
Deaf communications company, to create a British Sign Language tour for the
exhibition. The tour is presented by native sign-language interpreters on the
same device as the multimedia tour. Video playback is of the highest quality,
resulting in a seamless and engaging sign-language tour.
Visitor
feedback for the guides has been extremely positive with many favourable
comments, such as:
“It was all excellent.
I did particularly enjoy the videos on the handheld device.”
“This really helped
since the exhibits are so small - you could watch/listen to them while waiting
on a space in front of each one to open up. It also helped show the 'objectives'
of the books, for example.”
“Just excellent!”
For At
Home in Renaissance Italy a fact filled audio tour in English and Italian is
available. The tours explore the role of the household in Renaissance art and
culture and guides visitors through three recreated rooms, the sala,
camera and scrittoio. Interview contributions from the curators,
Marta Ajmar-Wollheim and Flora Dennis, as well as other leading experts provide
a fresh perspective on this classic period.
About Acoustiguide Limited
Acoustiguide Limited is
the UK subsidiary of Espro Acoustiguide Group, a global developer, manufacturer
and marketer of audio and multimedia hand held interpretive systems and
multi-lingual content. The Group's products and services are used in museums,
cultural and visitor centres, walking tours and trade shows worldwide. With 8
subsidiaries worldwide the Group has a client base of over 400 active sites, and
comprises some of the world's best known museums and heritage sites, including
the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musee d’Orsay and the Rodin Museum in
Paris, the Imperial War Museum in London, Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain, the State
Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Museum of Fine Arts in Vienna, the
Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in
Brussels, the Forbidden City in Beijing and the National Palace Museum of Taiwan
in Taipei. For further information, please visit the Group websites
www.espro.com or
www.acoustiguide.com.
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