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Audio Guides
The Autry National Center is offering adults and children a whole new way to explore our galleries with audio tours. Visitors can choose the artifacts or works of art you want to learn more about and hear brief presentations, with quotes, music and sound effects to inspire a closer look. Families will find specially created scripts to help them talk about what they see, think about key moments in time and learn about the history of the American West.
Player rentals are available at the museum for free to Autry National Center Members and $3 for non-members.
Have a portable MP3 player? Download the Autry audio tours here as podcasts:
Museum Highlights Tour
In 1988, Gene Autry, "America's Favorite Singing Cowboy," realized a dream by building, in his words, "a museum which would exhibit and interpret the heritage of the West, and show how it has influenced America and the world."
This audio tour guides you through the museum to hear the stories behind the most unusual and important pieces of Western art and artifacts that are on display.
Western Resources Tour
Through examining specific historical artifacts in the museum, this audio tour examines our relationship with the unique Western environment, and the impact environment and resources, both abundant and scarce, have on Western identity, politics, society, and culture.
Violence and Justice Tour
This audio tour guides you through the museum’s extensive collection of artifacts that illustrate historical aspects surrounding the myths of gunslingers and outlaws, domestic and racial violence that both shape and distort our understanding of the West.
Voices of Native America Tour
Narrated by Native Americans, this audio tour takes the visitor throughout the museum to learn more about the Native American perspective as they share the histories, cultures, and concerns of indigenous peoples in their own voice.
West as Crossroads Tour
Welcome to the Autry's audio tour exploring the West as global crossroads. What makes the West unique? The remarkable convergence of cultures that continue to come together in the American West results in a homeland like no other in the world.
iPod/iPhone Instructions
To download a tour to your iPod or iPhone, click one of the links above. The podcast will open in a new browser window. Copy the URL from the address bar. In iTunes, pull down Advanced and choose Subscribe to Podcast. Paste the URL into the box and click OK.
When you see the list of audio files loaded in iTunes, click GET ALL to download the audio tour. Refer to iTunes for instructions on how to sync the podcasts to iPod or iPhone.
