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Audio description tour
Audio description
This tour features a selection of twenty objects displayed in
five of the Museum's galleries - Egyptian Sculpture (Room 4),
Parthenon Sculptures (Room 18), Living and Dying (Room 24), the
African Galleries (Room 25) and the Enlightenment Gallery (Room
1).
The authors and editors of our online tours usually write with
the assumption, whether conscious or not, that the reader can
either see the image of the object on the website, or if they visit
the Museum, in the gallery itself. This tour is different, as the
text has been specially written for blind or partially sighted
visitors.
The texts are much longer than our usual descriptions, as they
aim to capture the visual elements of the objects that are commonly
taken for granted. We hope that in time we can add to this resource
and make more objects in the Museum accessible in this way.
Audio recordings of each description (in mp3 format) can be
downloaded from each page of the tour.
The descriptions were commissioned by the British Museum's
Department of Learning and Audiences from Vocaleyes (www.vocaleyes.co.uk), a
nationwide audio description company for blind and partially
sighted people providing access to the best in the arts.
We welcome feedback on this tour, particularly if you have
problems accessing the site and the audio. Please contact
the Web team (web@britishmuseum.org).