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Often celebrities have a special connection with projects or sites, and non-profit clients may be able to secure them for a modest honorarium. Celebrity narration for commercial projects requires a more substantial licensing fee. Here is a list of celebrity narrators from selected U.S. productions.
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F. Murray Abraham
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Global Guggenheim
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
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David Bowie
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Sensation
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Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Tom Brokaw
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Ellis Island
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Ellis Island Immigration Museum
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General Tour
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Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum
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Scott Carpenter
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General Tour
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Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum
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Glenn Close
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Kansas City Sculpture Park
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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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Alistair Cooke
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America
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Pierpont Morgan Library
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Walter Cronkite
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The Great Age of Sail
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Peabody Essex Museum
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General Tour
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Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum
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Kirk Douglas
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Armand Hammer Collection |
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Palm Springs Desert Museum
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Gilberto Gil
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Brazil: Body and Soul |
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Alan Ginsburg
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The Beat
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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Jim Henson
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Muppets
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Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
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Charlton Heston
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Ramesses the Great
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City of Memphis
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Dustin Hoffman
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Permanent Collection
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The Jewish Museum
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Lauren Hutton
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Francesco Clemente
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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HRH Prince Edward
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Victoria & Albert Collection
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Royal Ontario Museum
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Dennis Hopper
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Art of the Motorcycle
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Guggenheim Bilbao
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Angelica Huston
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Fernand Leger
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Jeremy Irons
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1900: Art at the Crossroads
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Raul Julia
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General Tour
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New York Botanical Garden
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Kevin Kline
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Impressionists in Winter
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Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Ed Koch
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Ed Koch’s Tour
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American Museum of Natural History
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Cheryl Ladd
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Permanent Collection
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art
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Shari Lewis
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Ramesses Children’s Tour
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Museum of Science, Boston
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Wynton Marsalis
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Piet Mondrian
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Steve Martin
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Picasso and Portraiture
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Sen. John McCain
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General Tour
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Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum
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Zubin Mehta
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Costumes of Royal India
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Metropolitan Museum
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Dennis Miller
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Permanent Collection
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art
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Roger Moore
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The Forbidden City
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The Palace Museum, Beijing
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Leonard Nimoy
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Star Trek
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National Air and Space Museum
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Gregory Peck
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Permanent Collection
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Wisconsin Veterans Museum
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Priscilla Presley
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General Tour
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Graceland
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Vincent Price
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Ramesses the Great
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Jacksonville Art Museum
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Isabella Rossellini
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Jewels of the Romanovs
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Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Mrs. Anwar Sadat
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Mistress of the House: Women in Egypt
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Cincinnati Art Museum
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Siegfried and Roy
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Siegfried and Roy at the Mirage
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The Mirage, Las Vegas
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Beverly Sills
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Music in Art
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Gene Siskel &
Roger Ebert
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General Tour
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
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Meryl Streep
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Monet in the ‘90s
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Baltimore Museum of Art
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Jessica Tandy
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Permanent Collection
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Shelburne Art Museum
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Kathleen Turner
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Cartier: 1900-1939
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Peter Ustinov
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The Forbidden City
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The Palace Museum, Beijing
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Diana Vreeland
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18th Century Woman
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Sam Waterson
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Dutch Paintings
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M.H. de Young Memorial Museum
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Orson Welles
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King Tutankhamen
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M.H. de Young Memorial Museum
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James Woods
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Spendors of Ancient Egypt Children’s Tour
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Portland Art Museum
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Chuck Yeager
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Highlights Tour
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National Air and Space Museum
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