Behind scenes tours

Apologies for any repetition. My mail was recently clogged by a large posting and this request may or may not have managed to get through.

Can anyone please tell me if they have seen any 'behind the scenes' tours at a Web site? I know the Canadian Museum of Civilization has a very good example and I was looking for another.

Many thanks Patricia

Try the Philadelphia Museum of Art's website, look for past exhibit 'Best Dressed.' They have a section describing preparing mannequins, etc. for the exhibit.

At 10:40 AM 7/3/98 +1000, you wrote:

Has anyone tried to use audio CDs for audio tours? I had an idea that CD-R blanks (the kind you can write on your own computer) are now about $1.00 each in limited quantities (less than 100). The cost to mass produce them can be even less. This is certainly competitive with audio tape. I also thought another advantage was that you could let people play back the 'tracks' in any order. This way they could proceed from place to place in any order they wanted which might help with traffic flow. People could jump past an exhibit (or three) and then come back to it (them) later.

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I believe that the American Museum of Natural History has been using CD's for their audio tours. The 'tour' I used was developed for the dinosaur halls.

The New York Hall of Science has been testing and evaluating a random access audio tour for interactive science center exhibits and I believe they have reviewed all current technologies as part of that project. Contact Alan Friedmann.

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