[Greater-baltimore] Audio Description at museums

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> On Jun 14, 2015, at 4:33 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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I am sure that you know that the Walters Art Gallery has audio. As you said the aquarium has had it for several years it has greatly improved recently. I can't think of any others in Baltimore off the top of my head however I do know that in Philadelphia at the Betsy Ross house and a few of the places in Constitution Hall and other museums like that have audio as well.
I apologize that this was not much help. But if you take a trip to Philadelphia be sure to check out a a few museums and call ahead to see if they have audio headsets.
Melissa Sheeder