ArtsExplorer: Now you can take your own audio tours of the Institute's highlights.
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is introducing its self-guided audio tours of the museum's permanent collection called "ArtsExplorer". You may be familiar with this kind of tour from visits to other major museums. Visitors rent a recorded narration with a portable CD player and headphones and take a private tour of museum treasures at their own pace. The Institute is working with Antenna Audio Inc. to produce the tours, using the company's user-friendly technology. Antenna is the international company that produces audio tours for the Louvre, the Vatican Museums, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the National Gallery of Art-London, and other museums, national parks and galleries. The ArtsExplorer program tells visitors the exciting stories behind the major works in the collection. The Institute's curators discuss their research on objects in the collection in personal interviews. This is information beyond what you'll find on the gallery wall labels, and is enhanced by music and sound effects. The first ArtsExplorer tour covers one hundred of the museum's masterpieces. Narration about more works of art will be added throughout the year. Icons in the galleries will identify which objects are described on the tour. ArtsExplorer's interactive CD technology allows visitors to listen to commentary only about the works they choose, in any order—and to hear as many items as they wish. This gives the visitor much more control than a cassette tour would. Try ArtsExplorer during your next visit to the Institute and experience the museum in a whole new way.
The ArtsExplorer audio tour program can be rented directly within the Third Avenue or 24th Street Museum entrances $3 for Members and Senior citizens $4 for Nonmembers
Preview a section of ArtsExplorer.
Aphrodisiac Telephone
Salvador Dali
1938
plastic, bakelite and electronic
hardware, modified white
telephone with painted plastic
lobster
The Minneapolis Institute of
Arts
Listen using QuickTime
Self-Portrait with Dr. Arrieta
Francisco Jose de Goya y
Lucientes
1820
oil on canvas
The Minneapolis Institute of
Arts
Listen using QuickTime
The Olive Trees (Les Oliviers)
Vincent Van Gogh
1889
oil on canvas
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Listen using QuickTime
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