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Newport
Flower Show 2010
June
25 — 27, 2010 |
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New
Family Tour of The Breakers Debuts June 26
(Newport, RI) A new family audio tour experience will debut
June 26 at The Breakers, the historic Vanderbilt summer "cottage"
in Newport, Rhode Island. Introducing The Breakers as its own
tour guide, the new family experience allows youngsters and
parents to imagine themselves personally witnessing the history
made in this great Gilded Age chateau.
As the house shares its secrets, you meet family members and
staff, as well as fanciful creatures like the friendly dolphin
hiding under the grand staircase, the lions of the Music Room
and the dragons in the Dining Room. You experience a summer
day in the life of one of the Vanderbilt children, you meet
the masters of the kitchen - Monsieur Le Chef and his colleague,
The Butler. You take an imaginary slide down the grand stairs
on a silver serving tray, listen as imaginary acrobats pile
50 feet high to measure the Great Hall, and learn all the “rules”
the children had to live by at The Breakers.
The tour has been created by The Preservation Society of Newport
County based on a decade of research, oral history from family
members and staff who lived there as children, and the popular
main audio tour “The Breakers Revealed” which premiered
in 2009. It uses extensively-documented historic facts to launch
young people’s imagination on a flight of fancy through
one of the 19th century’s grandest private residences,
and introduces them to a time and place far removed from the
present day.
“Family experiences are among the most precious experiences
children have in museums,” says Preservation Society CEO
and Executive Director Trudy Coxe. “This tour begins to
fulfill the promise of bringing our historic properties to life
in ways that youngsters can share with their parents and each
other.”
Using imagination, the tour introduces themes of architecture,
design, décor and the importance of historic preservation
from a uniquely personal point of view.
“The strength of the tour is its solid artistic and historic
foundation,” says Preservation Society Museum Affairs
Director John Tschirch. “This tour is rich in imagination,
but it’s not make-believe. The story of the building,
the lives of the Vanderbilts and their staff provided all the
material we needed to enable young people to connect with this
important era in American history.”
The tour is offered continuously at The Breakers as an option
on the Explorer© audio tour players provided to all visitors
at no additional charge. Presented in partnership with Antenna
Audio, the world leader in museum audio tours, and Sonalysts
Studios in Waterford, Connecticut, the 45-minute experience
can be enjoyed by youngsters as their parents take “The
Breakers Revealed” audio tour which follows the same route
and timing. Visitors can stop as often as they like as they
travel through the house, and can explore more information at
subject stops along the route.
The Preservation Society of Newport County, Rhode Island is
a non-profit organization accredited by the American Association
of Museums and dedicated to preserving and interpreting the
area’s historic architecture, landscapes and decorative
arts. Its 11 historic properties—seven of them National
Historic Landmarks—span more than 250 years of American
architectural and social development. |
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