Accessible Tour: Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds Virtual Experience
Welcome to our inclusive virtual tour, specially crafted to provide an immersive and accessible experience for all our visitors. Visit royalarmouries... if you want to enjoy the full virtual experience, without the AI narrator.
Join us on a journey through the highlights of our Leeds museum from the comfort of your own home.
Our tour has been designed with a focus on accessibility, so individuals with access needs can fully engage and enjoy a number of our most treasured objects across our 5 floors of gallery space.
This tour forms part of our ongoing commitment to be a museum for all, bringing our world class collection of arms and armour to visitors around the globe.
Introduction and entrance: 00:00
Tournament gallery: 00:57
Tournament gallery mezzanine: 6:00
War gallery: 7:07
War gallery mezzanine: 12:26
Hall of Steel mid-point: 14:12
Hunting gallery mezzanine: 14:40
Hunting gallery : 16:05
Oriental gallery: 21:20
Self Defence gallery: 28:30
View from the highest bridge between the Hunting and Oriental gallery 32:17
Outro: 32:38
The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds is a vast building, over 6 floors. Our galleries are located on the upper 4 floors and have over 8,000 objects on display, from the Stone Age to the 20th century. Many of the objects relate to war, but also sporting combat, hunting, art, self-defence, and popular culture.
Many visitors to the Royal Armouries Museum express surprise over how large the building is and how many objects are on display. Of course not everyone can physically visit the museum due to geographical, economic, political, cultural or physical barriers and we recognise this. For these reasons we commissioned 3D virtual tour specialists, Apollo 3D www.apollo3d.c..., to create a virtual tour of the museum, its galleries, and feature 25 must see objects.
The full 3D Virtual Tour can be found on our museum website : royalarmouries...
Unfortunately, the 3D virtual tour, does not provide a fully accessible experience, and so to address this we have created a curated video tour of the museum's virtual space, with the same information about the featured objects, and an audio track with closed-captions.
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We are the Royal Armouries, the United Kingdom's national collection of arms and armour. Discover what goes on behind the scenes and watch our collection come to life. See combat demonstrations, experience jousting and meet our experts.
Have a question about arms and armour? Feel free to leave us a comment and we'll do our best to answer it.
Пікірлер: 61
Honestly I think a lot of us that are fans of your museum’s work would be interested in what curators do day-to-day. I’m sure Jonathan Ferguson and his colleagues don’t spend all day taking apart Star Wars blasters or test-firing prototype weapons. But I think you’d be happily surprised about our curiosity on what goes behind the scenes, even if it’s a bit mundane!
I wish this was voiced by Jonathan Ferguson
@RoyalArmouries
Жыл бұрын
We'll see what we can do.
@ericthemauve
Жыл бұрын
@@RoyalArmouries Oh please do. That audio track is lamentable.
@JaykPuten
Жыл бұрын
@@RoyalArmouries or you know, a human being... Even if they don't speak English and are repeating it phonetically(this isn't a joke, it would actually be very amusing) But Mr Ferguson would be brilliant Since he's kinda you're biggest "Museum" ambassador wether he knows it or not Also can you get him diplomatic immunity? That last one is a joke
@benrobertson7855
Жыл бұрын
“….Mounted in the bows..”don’t know if I should cry or laugh…..
I am hoping this will become a mini-series touring all of the three museums
@RoyalArmouries
Жыл бұрын
That is our hope too.
@jessepatch9076
Жыл бұрын
@@RoyalArmouries what are the names of the other 2 museums?
@RoyalArmouries
Жыл бұрын
@@jessepatch9076 the White Tower at H M Tower of London and Fort Nelson in Portsmouth. You can take a look here and see what's on: royalarmouries.org/ hope to see you at the museum soon.
@jessepatch9076
Жыл бұрын
@@RoyalArmouries thank you
Thanks for the video but the voicing, which I'm guessing is A.I generated, sounds really monotonous and uncomfortable.
@RoyalArmouries
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback, which we will bear in mind for the next one. You can always turn the volume off or for the full experience visit royalarmouries.org/visit-us/royal-armouries-museum/3d-virtual-tour-of-the-royal-armouries-museum
@Safetytrousers
Жыл бұрын
It was fine for me.
Always wanted to take a look inside, especially after watching so many videos from the channel! Great upload, and thank you!
I'm visiting in Dec from the States, I already have my reservation. I'm really looking forward to it. Thanks for the video.
WONDERFUL REFLECTIONS!!! Royal Reflections Museum...
Go there early and spend a long day looking around you won't regret it
I wonder if this specific AI voice was chosen for maximum intelligibility, or some other accessibility concern I am oblivious to, because there are more natural sounding ones available these days. Regardless, it's good to see museums making content available to those who would normally be excluded.
Amazingly interesting, thanks for posting. I learnt a lot. The only armament museum that I have ever visited was the Rotunda - the Royal Artillery museum in Woolwich - hopefully still there. Back in the late 1960's it was absolutely RAMMED with exhibits and it boggled the mind of me at the time. I shall always remember the sections through various artillery shells and the like, and some of the amazing weapons from the times of conquest and Empire-building. I detest violence and the like, but the technology and design are endlessly fascinating.
Thank you for the video, I can't go to the museum exactly because of reason (b). One day if I can visit England again, I will definitely take a visit.
@RoyalArmouries
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the positive feedback, if you want to have the full experience visit royalarmouries.org/visit-us/royal-armouries-museum/3d-virtual-tour-of-the-royal-armouries-museum
This is very appreciated, as I suspect it will be a long time before I can afford to get to the UK to visit, but have been wanting for years.
Fantastic collection!
Awesome 😎😊
That is so cool, I hope I can visit there in person one day but currently I’m on the other side of the planet
Very cool
Thank you 🙂👍
Next, we want virtual experience with Jonathan
The first link in the description doesn't work. I searched your website to find the 3D tour myself. Then I noticed it matches the "full 3D virtual tour" link further down in the description ;)
'Floor 5 is only accessible by lift' so that's why I couldn't find it last find I went 😭
2:40 What's that thing on the front? Is it like an early version radar dome?
The Muggle warrior on horseback seems a little out of place lol!
@WoolyCaterpillar
Жыл бұрын
I mean where else would you be if you're not a wizard? :P
I was led to believe the pronunciation of "Mughal" was somewhat more like "Mooghal" rather than "Muggle", which is something from the Harry Potter series ! A pity someone with a better presentation manner couldn't have been used for the voiceover ! At times he sounded like he didn't know what he was talking about ! Where's Jonathan Ferguson when you need him?
That virtual link in the description ain't working lads.
Famous Hunter... Jesus...
Ayooo
Here's a strategy that might be cheaper for you and more popular with the public? 1) Stop trying to make your museum into a website. 2) Stop trying to make your website into a museum.
(A) I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I never knew the museum existed, and, (B) voice over seems perfectly fine on the version I watched?
@RoyalArmouries
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for your comment, you are not alone in not knowing the museum exists, which is a shame. For the full virtual experience visit royalarmouries.org/visit-us/royal-armouries-museum/3d-virtual-tour-of-the-royal-armouries-museum
The narration would have been better served by a human voice.
@Safetytrousers
Жыл бұрын
Why? The point of an informational voice is communication, and I understood everything that was said.
Please remove that awful voice over
@RoyalArmouries
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback, which we will bear in mind for the next one. You can always turn the volume off, or for the full experience visit royalarmouries.org/visit-us/royal-armouries-museum/3d-virtual-tour-of-the-royal-armouries-museum
@Safetytrousers
Жыл бұрын
The point of an informational voice is communication, and I understood everything that was said.
@zdam
Жыл бұрын
@@Safetytrousers Then there are many other voices that hopefully also does the job, because that's a rather low bar. For me it was not listenable, even if I understood the words.
@Safetytrousers
Жыл бұрын
@@zdam You can only use one voice at a time.
@kevinkibble8342
Жыл бұрын
What were you expecting, some theatrical diva voice?
That voice synthesis sounds awful. There are some really grating audio artifacts, it sounds like a recording that went through a very lossy compression.
Pretty damn sure the intro is voiced by some sort of a computer generated voice.
Sorry, but the "You can always turn the volume off" suggestion, which has been repeated several times, is a weak and weasly cop-out. The voiceover is dire and a massive mistake. Admit it and move on.
@Safetytrousers
Жыл бұрын
The voiceover is well recorded and very clear. There is no such suggestion normally appearing. There is something wrong with your system if you are experiencing these things.
@narabdela
Жыл бұрын
Read the comments.
@Safetytrousers
Жыл бұрын
@@narabdela The comment says the feedback will be borne in mind, and also links to a very good resource if you want a tour of the museum. What more do you want?
Is this an AI voice? lol
Great video. Terribly stilted and boring commentary though. Pity. 😐
i have never heard a more unnatural, disjointed, and stilted piece of narration describing the contents of a museum before, never mind the strange repetitive echoes of something barking in the background as well as the sound of children playing was a complete annoying distraction from museums exhibits. Royal Armouries you couldn't have got it more wrong.
@RoyalArmouries
Жыл бұрын
Sorry to hear you don't like it, we will bear your comments in mind for the future. You can always turn the volume off, or for the full experience visit royalarmouries.org/visit-us/royal-armouries-museum/3d-virtual-tour-of-the-royal-armouries-museum.
@fredemny3304
Жыл бұрын
Really, really, bad voiceover. I would have expected something more professional from The Royal Armories.
@Safetytrousers
Жыл бұрын
@@fredemny3304 It's not meant to be an acting masterclass. I understood everything that was said.