The following were posted on
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MuseNews-Art in the last
week or so:

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Some museums' audio tours are now available via
cellphone. On the plus side:
less jabbering.

By Diane Haithman
Times Staff Writer

Apr 5 2006

Next time you see museum-goer in front of a Rembrandt
with a cellphone pressed
to one ear, don't assume this is some philistine more
interested in gabbing than
in art.

The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/cl-et-celltours5apr05,0,248964\
9.story


"NBC 4 - Irresistible Headlines - Museum Offering
Cell Phone Tours"

the link:
http://www.nbc4.tv/irresistible/8139217/detail.html?taf=orl



--- Kristin Herron <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I am adjunct faculty in a graduate program in
> Decorative Arts and Design History in New York City.
> 
> For the course I am teaching this semester,
> "Interpreting Decorative Arts," we recently
> discussed
> the role of audio tours in interpretation.  A
> student
> had the following questions, for which I could
> really
> only surmise answers.  I couldn't find answers to
> these questions in the MUSEUM-L archive, so am
> hoping
> some of you might have responses.
> 
> 1. It seems that more museums are offering audio
> tours
> for free/as part of admission whereas they used to
> be
> an additional cost.  Is this as a result of visitor
> complaints, or something else (lower costs of
> technology, museums budgeting for them and receiving
> grants, etc)?  Is there any data on this?
> 
> 2.  Is there an equivalent text to Beverly Serrell's
> _Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach_ that
> deals
> soley with audio tours -- including recommendations
> on
> how best to script them, length, etc?  Or even an
> article?
> 
> Essentially, I am wondering if anyone is aware of
> literature on these subjects.  Barring that, any
> individual responses from museums on their
> experience
> would be interesting.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Kristin Herron



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