Visit the Teen Audio Guide by Laura Green ’18

About the Project

Yes, this is a teen audio guide for the Smith College Museum of Art. Yes, we all know those are always better than the adult guides. So feel free to use away, adults!

Many of these audio stops are suitable for younger children, but others are not. Adults should read the audio transcriptions before allowing children to listen.

Background

This project came about from the MUX 300 course, the capstone to the Museums Concentration at Smith College.

I have been interested in museums from a young age. As a kid, I loved going to museums with my mother and grandmother. It was something special that just the three of us did together. In museums, they spoke to me as an adult, as someone with interesting thoughts and valid opinions.

To this day, just chatting about art is my favorite part about going to museums. Museum visits are the most fun for me when I can learn from someone else’s perspective. For my capstone project, I wanted to create conversation in the gallery, even for solo visitors.

For this guide, I enlisted the help of my fellow classmates and friends to tell me about their favorite artworks at the Smith College Museum of Art. This guide is the record of the honest, insightful, and funny stories they told me about those works.

Visitors can listen to as many or as few stops as they want, in any order. I encourage visitors to let themselves explore the galleries, guided only by personal interest. Enjoy!