[Greater-baltimore] Audio Description at museums
Jennifer Wenzel
jenwen319 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 01:24:23 UTC 2015
The USS Constellation in the Inner Harbor, which is one of the ships you can tour, has an excellent audio tour. At least it did a few years ago. Also the Arudel Mills Theeater has the descriptive devices for movies and they work very well.
Jennifer Wenzel
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> On Jun 14, 2015, at 3:33 PM, mary jo hartle via Greater-baltimore <greater-baltimore at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to find out about any of the museums in D.C. or here in MD.
> Which offer descriptive tours (the kind with descriptive audio headsets or
> handsets-not a dosent tour) . Sometimes these pop up and we don't hear
> about them. For example, I just learned about the handheld device and
> descriptive audio offered at the National Aquarium. I used it last week
> for the first time and was pretty impressed. Anyway, do any of you know of
> any in the D.C. and MD areas, namely at the Smithsonian's? According to
> some brief searching online, I only see that the International spy museum
> and the White House were listed four the D.C./MD/VA areas, but I know from
> personal experience that Mount Vernon also offers one, in addition to the
> Aquarium as I mentioned. So, I'm wondering if any of you know of new places
> offering this that maybe some of us have not heard of yet? If so, would you
> mind sharing?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mary Jo Hartle
>
> P.S. The new AMC theater in Towson , offers description headsets for movies
> there-so long as the movie has an accompanying descriptive audio track.
> We've used it and it was pretty great. I suggest however that you bring
> your own headset as the ones they provide are the large ear muff style and
> if you wear them, they tend to muffle the original sound from the movie.
> Just FYI.
>
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