Bristol City Museum Audio Guide
We have partnered with Bristol Museum, enabling blind visitors to find out about many historic artefacts for the first time. Objects in the Egypt exhibition at the museum have been given stickers with audio descriptions stored on PenFriends.
“For visually impaired people, they just walk round museums and it’s just one glass case after another. The PENfriend really brought it to life. We knew what we were looking at, we knew the history of the items and how old they were and what they were used for. All things that we had no idea of before.” - Jennifer Stirratt, registered blind person
We are currently developing similar projects with The National Trust.
Ted Hughes Poetry Trail Audio
We worked with Stover Country Park, a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Local Reserve that includes the Ted Hughes Poetry Trail. The poems in the pack were recorded by the poet Alice Oswald. Next to each title and poem on the sheet are soundspots for the TalkingPEN to play back the relevant recording. See the Ted Huges poetry trail.