Barcelona’s Museu de la Música offers visitors a different way to enjoy its collections with a ‎new audio guide that invites them to learn about a carefully-selected choice of instruments ‎in greater detail.‎
The tour, which lasts approximately one hour, provides, as a musical journey, 21 fascinating ‎stories that reveal the origins, curious facts and mysteries of special pieces and personalities ‎that have left a mark on Catalan culture. From the secrets concealed by the kundu (drum) ‎from Papua New Guinea to a harpsichord that Johann Sebastian Bach may have played or the ‎piano belonging to Isaac Albéniz, the tour seeks to kindle the interest of the visitor and ‎create a different kind of relationship with the collection beyond merely the visit. ‎

‎A language accessible for everyone‎
The new audio guide offered by Barcelona’s Museu de la Música is aimed at a wide audience. ‎The device users receive is a touch-screen tablet which, for 2 euros, permits them to ‎complete their visit with further information and details on the museum’s collections, in ‎addition to the spoken commentary and short musical extracts recorded on exhibition ‎instruments or similar ones. ‎
Visitors can also download the audio guide to their mobile for free via the Visitmuseum app. ‎Languages available are Catalan, Spanish, French and English.‎

‎The Museu de la Música’s audio guides are in addition to the more than twenty that ‎the Visitmuseum programme is implementing ‎
The new audio guide service was put into operation on 21 June last year, coinciding with ‎International Music Day, and is part of the Visitmuseum programme, an initiative developed ‎by the Generalitat de Catalunya’s Ministry of Culture with the support of the Ministry of ‎Business and Knowledge. The principal objective is to provide the museum system in ‎Catalonia with tools to improve the experience of foreign tourists visiting the museums. ‎

On the Visitmuseum website there are 229 museums and more than 1,300 objects. Of these, ‎there are 56 museums in the province of Barcelona, 27 in Girona, 10 in Lleida and 15 in ‎Tarragona. There are also 121 museum extensions (monuments, sites, etc.) that are ‎managed by the different museums. ‎

All the audio guides can be listened to on the Visitmuseum platform: https://visitmuseum.gencat.cat‎