Cell phone tours offered by several museums
The technologies are advancing and this time the mobile has formed a pact with the museum which resulted in the emergence of cell phone audio tours. Basically, to experience the beauty of a tour, you have to bring your mobile with you. Then you download the audio guide and off you go to learn more than the conventional museum tours can offer.
It is good and considered to be a step forward, because apart from language options, you can hear a lot of useful and interesting information about museum exhibits. All you need is to push the number of the artwork and you can learn about other masterpieces of the same artist. Generally, you insert a different number when you move on to view the next work of art. Besides, cell phones are lighter than their predecessors (heavy hand-held devices equipped with headsets) and you do not have to be afraid of getting germs wandered from the previous user.
Together with narrations, you can hear music and recordings from historical archives that enhance the experience of a visit. Not along ago, most of the museums across the USA did not welcome mobiles, while now the tables have turned.
According to http://www.wistv.com several museums in LA, Tacoma, Washington, Minneapolis and Greenwich, Connecticut have already implemented the service, while others are still mulling over the initiative. For example, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is the one that abstained. But still its visitors can have an audio tour. They just need to download a file from the museum web site on the iPODs or portable music players.
The trend has been with us for about 4 years now http://www.sun-sentinel.com. Cell phone audio tours are free of charge, but you will have to pay the minutes that you listen to your mobile updating you on this or that exhibit.
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