It do be annoying, fiddling with your phone at every interesting painting, and descriptions are sometimes shorter than before. (Although audio options are pretty poggers when they go in-depth, but its rare)
Those little audio doohickeys that some museums have are my favorite objects in the world. Museums used to have them on cassette and sometimes they’d let me copy them. As a kid I used to have a cassette for San Antonio’s science museum and I’d listen to the dinosaur parts repeatedly.
Yeah, the annoying part with audioguides they are incomprehensible alphanumeric gibberish on a server (sometimes), not structured folder type deal, so you cant backtrack to them from home :(
It do be annoying, fiddling with your phone at every interesting painting, and descriptions are sometimes shorter than before. (Although audio options are pretty poggers when they go in-depth, but its rare)
Those little audio doohickeys that some museums have are my favorite objects in the world. Museums used to have them on cassette and sometimes they’d let me copy them. As a kid I used to have a cassette for San Antonio’s science museum and I’d listen to the dinosaur parts repeatedly.
Yeah, the annoying part with audioguides they are incomprehensible alphanumeric gibberish on a server (sometimes), not structured folder type deal, so you cant backtrack to them from home :(
They claim it’s also to replace the headsets for audio explanations, etc., but either way it’s bullshit. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2022-01-22/essential-arts-qr-codes-in-museums-blessing-and-curse-essential-arts