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
El Museu de la Música de Barcelona estrena nou servei d’audioguia
10-Jul-2018 – Lisi Andrés