Tacoma Art Museum secured grant funding from IMLS for a cell phone tour of Dale Chihuly's glass artwork on view in the museum and throughout Tacoma's downtown museum district.

http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/Page.aspx?nid=110

We've had great success with it, but I agree that to keep up with the monthly funding it wouldn't be possible without grant funding, which we're now in the process of changing over to sponsorships. 

Alternatively, we've made the mp3s available on our web site so that if people would like to download the files to their computers, or iPods, etc. they have that option as well. 

http://www.tacomaartmuseum.org/page.aspx?hid=599 

This displays throughout Tacoma are permanent, so it was a cheaper way to go because we can get years of use out of this audio tour. We do not have the capabilities to support an audio tour for every new exhibition we have on view.

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Alyssa Rosso
Public Relations Coordinator
TACOMA ART MUSEUM
1701 Pacific Avenue
Tacoma, Washington 98402
T: 253.272.4258 x3002
F: 253.627.1898
www.TacomaArtMuseum.org
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