UK First As V&A Launches Podcasts
StumbleUponThe V&A Museum has launched a groundbreaking interactive audio-visual podcast initiative - the first of its kind in any UK museum or art gallery...
The Victoria and Albert Museum has launched a groundbreaking
interactive audio-visual podcast initiative that is the first of
its kind in any UK museum or art gallery...
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Curators, conservators and researchers tell their personal stories about art by podcast in the paintings gallery of the V&A Museum in London. In keeping with the time and location-shifting point of podcasting, they don’t have to be at the museum to hear them.
Audiences can listen to six different stories on an iPod, MP3 player or desktop computer by subscribing to the V&A’s ‘Every Object tells A Story’ podcast. Each story is illustrated so you can see the paintings while you listen.
Delivering a personal take on art
Conservator Nicola Costaras talks of her excitement in revealing a rare panelmaker’s mark on the back of a painting by Adriaen Brouwer, while researcher Rachel Sloan explains why Rossetti had his fingers burnt on a wombat investment.
It takes just one click to subscribe for free. After that, each new story is automatically added, leaving you to wander around the collections at your own pace.
Of course visitors to the museum in person may subscribe beforehand and listen to the audio stories while looking at the paintings in real life. This is the first of the V&A’s podcasts. Podcast tours for their other galleries are in the pipeline.
How to listen:
Subscribe to the podcast through iTunes or Google by pasting the link: http://www.vereyobject.net/web/data/podcasts/eotas_2.xml
Full details can be found at everyobject.net/interactive
About Every Object Tells A Story:
Every Object Tells A Story is an archive of people’s stories about objects that they treasure. The archive includes stories from staff at the V&A and its partners Tyne & Wear Museums, Birmingham Museum & Arts Gallery and Brighton & Hove Museums. Every Object Tells A Story is funded by Culture Online, and is run by the V&A in collaboration with Channel 4 and Ultralab.
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Curators, conservators and researchers tell their personal stories about art by podcast in the paintings gallery of the V&A Museum in London. In keeping with the time and location-shifting point of podcasting, they don’t have to be at the museum to hear them.
Audiences can listen to six different stories on an iPod, MP3 player or desktop computer by subscribing to the V&A’s ‘Every Object tells A Story’ podcast. Each story is illustrated so you can see the paintings while you listen.
Delivering a personal take on art
Conservator Nicola Costaras talks of her excitement in revealing a rare panelmaker’s mark on the back of a painting by Adriaen Brouwer, while researcher Rachel Sloan explains why Rossetti had his fingers burnt on a wombat investment.
It takes just one click to subscribe for free. After that, each new story is automatically added, leaving you to wander around the collections at your own pace.
Of course visitors to the museum in person may subscribe beforehand and listen to the audio stories while looking at the paintings in real life. This is the first of the V&A’s podcasts. Podcast tours for their other galleries are in the pipeline.
How to listen:
Subscribe to the podcast through iTunes or Google by pasting the link: http://www.vereyobject.net/web/data/podcasts/eotas_2.xml
Full details can be found at everyobject.net/interactive
About Every Object Tells A Story:
Every Object Tells A Story is an archive of people’s stories about objects that they treasure. The archive includes stories from staff at the V&A and its partners Tyne & Wear Museums, Birmingham Museum & Arts Gallery and Brighton & Hove Museums. Every Object Tells A Story is funded by Culture Online, and is run by the V&A in collaboration with Channel 4 and Ultralab.
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zoe said:
wonderful use of technology <p>isn't it lovely when technology makes you smile. <br/></p>
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