“Once you crack the script, everything else follows.” – Ridley Scott Acoustiguide’s scriptwriters are chosen for their intelligence, skill, expertise, ability to write for the ear, but most of all, their passion. With thousands of visitors entering museums and heritage arenas day, a good script is [...]
On an unseasonably warm winter’s day, we visited the Tocal Homestead in Paterson, Australia, a rural property about three hours northeast of Sydney, to install our Opus+ players. This is their fourth iteration of Acoustiguide hardware; starting with Inform in 2002, then to exSite, Opusand now, Opus+ [...]
Accessibility is a key priority for museums. But in Germany, it means more than wheelchair ramps, elevators, video guides in sign language, and audio descriptive tours. In Germany, content in what’s called “Leichte Sprache” (Easy Language) is a fundamental pillar of the accessibility mission. Neve [...]
Are you still thinking about the Royal Wedding? Reading tweets about Meghan Markle’s beagle, perhaps? If you’re a stickler for details or fashion, perhaps you’ve been wondering why Meghan Markle didn’t match her wedding-day Cartier bracelet and Cartier earrings with a Cartier tiara from the Royal [...]
To tinker is to seek answers. To be creative. To learn. And to not fear making a mistake. It doesn’t really feel like the way the real world operates, which emphasizes perfection and the right answer. But in science, innovations are often the result of different theories that are shared and melded [...]
The AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo is around the corner and we’re looking forward to seeing some familiar faces and meeting new ones, too! Check out six of our storytelling strategies, and how some of our recent tours prove their worth. Want to actually hear them? Stop by Acoustiguide booth 26 [...]
Working in the London office means that I am fortunate to work with some incredible clients – and as such see some fantastic exhibitions. I also get to hear about some of the great work that our team does across the entire group. And so, when I was planning my very first trip to New York City, there [...]
The exhibition "Pharaoh in Canaan: The Untold Story" at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem gives us the opportunity to explore the cross-cultural ties between Egypt and Canaan during the second millennium BCE. The story of Egypt and Canaan is most commonly known from the biblical narratives of Joseph an [...]
We’ve had some interesting projects launch in 2016. One such project is the e-guide for the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge - a great example of a museum using digital interpretation to engage their audiences. The project is part of the museum’s bicentenary celebrations; two hundred years is a long ti [...]
