The Art Gallery of South Australia Audio Tour
ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIAGallery of South Australia is the state's premiere cultural institution and is among the most visited art museums in Australia.It's collecrtion of 38,000 works features Australian, European (incorporating art of the USA) and Asian art. In particular, the Gallery is home to a significant body of nineteenth century Australian art.
Chicago Office of Tourism: Chicago Blues Audio Tour
CHICAGO, USAIn the early part of the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of African Americans moved to the urban centers of the North. In Chicago, the cultural tradition they brought with them mixed in the city's south-side clubs and cabarets to give birth to electric blues. This program studies the birth of the blues through the lives of its performers, clubs, and record labels. Narrated by Buddy Guy, featuring music from Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, The Rolling Stones, Koko Taylor, Magic Sam, Tampa Red, Ada Brown, and Papa Charlie Jackson. Podcast logo photo courtesy of Derrick Santini.
Chicago Office of Tourism: Chicago Blues Enhanced Tour
CHICAGO, USAIn the early part of the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of African Americans moved to the urban centers of the North. In Chicago, the cultural tradition they brought with them mixed in the city's south-side clubs and cabarets to give birth to electric blues. This program studies the birth of the blues through the lives of its performers, clubs, and record labels. Narrated by Buddy Guy, featuring music from Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, The Rolling Stones, Koko Taylor, Magic Sam, Tampa Red, Ada Brown, and Papa Charlie Jackson. Podcast logo photo courtesy of Derrick Santini.
Chicago Office of Tourism: Chicago Kids Audio Tour
CHICAGO, USADo you know what ingredients it takes to make a real Chicago hot dog or why the L goes around the Loop? Find out with the Chicago for Kids audio tour, a new way for young Chicagoans and visitors from around the globe to learn more about Chicago. The audio tour takes children and families on adventures throughout the city and features eight travel destinations. Visit the interactive website, www.chicagoforkids.org to explore more and play games and challenges that highlight the rich culture and history of Chicago. This tour offers two takes on each stop. The To Know track describes interesting facts on the stop and the To Go Track offers insight into what to do when you arrive. Stops include the Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Avenue Bridge-Tribune Tower, Millennium Park, The L, Picasso Sculpture, North Avenue Beach, Chicago Food, and the Garfield Park Conservatory. Interviews with famous Chicagoans, experts and city officials, including former Chicago Cub Ryne Sandberg, cheesecake manufacturer Marc Schulman, City historian Tim Samuelson and bridge operator Dennis White, provide kids with the ultimate insiders view of Chicago. The Chicago for Kids Audio Tour is brought to you by the Chicago Office of Tourism.
Chicago Office of Tourism: Chicago Kids Enhanced Tour
CHICAGO, USADo you know what ingredients it takes to make a real Chicago hot dog or why the L goes around the Loop? Find out with the Chicago for Kids audio tour, a new way for young Chicagoans and visitors from around the globe to learn more about Chicago. The audio tour takes children and families on adventures throughout the city and features eight travel destinations. Visit the interactive website, www.chicagoforkids.org to explore more and play games and challenges that highlight the rich culture and history of Chicago. This tour offers two takes on each stop. The To Know track describes interesting facts on the stop and the To Go Track offers insight into what to do when you arrive. Stops include the Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Avenue Bridge-Tribune Tower, Millennium Park, The L, Picasso Sculpture, North Avenue Beach, Chicago Food, and the Garfield Park Conservatory. Interviews with famous Chicagoans, experts and city officials, including former Chicago Cub Ryne Sandberg, cheesecake manufacturer Marc Schulman, City historian Tim Samuelson and bridge operator Dennis White, provide kids with the ultimate insiders view of Chicago. The Chicago for Kids Audio Tour is brought to you by the Chicago Office of Tourism.
Kimbell Art Museum, Forth Worth, Audio Tour
FORT WORTH, USAThis is the official feed for the Kimbell Art Museum, and includes the complete audio programs for the museum's temporary and permanent collections. When on-site, look for the headphone icon in the galleries for items described in the audio tour. Located in Fort Worth Texas, the Kimbell Art Museum's collections range in period from antiquity to the 20th century, and include European masterpieces from Caravaggio and Fra Angelico, as well as important collections of Egyptian, Near Eastern, Greek and Roman, Mesoamerican and African arts and antiquities. The collections are housed in what is widely regarded as one of the most outstanding architectural achievements of the modern era, the 1972 Louis I. Kahn museum building. More information can be found at www.kimbellart.org
Chesterfield Town Trail City Tour
CHESTERFIELD, ENGLANDThe Derbyshire town is famous for the 'Crooked Spire' of its Parish Church, standing on the skyline like a question mark. How did it happen? Answers are easy to find: some blame the Devil, some say lightning, one 'expert' even blamed bell ringing! But the truth is more complicated. Here's a clue: the lead tiles which cover the Spire weigh 32 tons!
What is George Stephenson's connection to Chesterfield? Who were George and Caleb Heathcote? Where is the loveliest cricket around in the country? Discover the answers to these, and more, in the Chesterfield Town Trail
The Fashion Museum Audio Tour
BATH, ENGLANDThe Fashion Museum is the finest museum in the world dedicated to the study of fashionable dress. It was founded by Bath City Council in 1963, following a substantial donation of historical fashionable dress by the eminent costume designer and collector Doris Langley Moore. Originally known as the Museum of Costume, the name changed to the Fashion Museum in 2007.
Menswear, womenswear, accessories, dresses, coats, jackets, corsets, knitwear, fashion photographs, pockets, shirts, blouses, waistcoats, fans: the collection at the Fashion Museum includes examples of all of these, and more.
The Tour
The Fashion Museum permanent collection displays its extensive selection of womenswear and menswear from the 18th century to the present day.
This audioguide offers a tour around the Museum's displays of corsets, crinolines, daywear, eveningwear and underwear and includes items and interviews from four important British designers of the 1970s and 1980s: John Bates, Janice Wainwright, Wendy Dagworthy and knitwear designer Sarah Dallas.
The National Portrait Gallery Audio Tour
LONDON, ENGLANDThe National Portrait Gallery has on display over 1000 portraits featuring men and women who have shaped British history from the Middle Ages to the present day. The Gallery audio tour has commentaries ob over 300 portraits and also features a number of short tours to help you find your way around this exciting collection.
The Tours
These tours offer a way of finding your route through the Gllery, taking in some of the best-loved paintings in the Collection and featuring some of the works that depict sitters who were celebrated in their own era, and some who are more famous to modern audiences than they were in their lifetimes. This downloadable tour introduces five of the themed tours which are available in full at the National Portrait Gallery.