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Explore the Twin Cities' world (Minneapolis, Minnesota) with the Orpheo Mini ! The Orpheo Mini is now available at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. If you have a layover at this airport, you can take a self-guided tour and explore the Twin Cities' world-renowned architecture, shopping, lakes, art, diverse culture, and more. Your layover of three hours or more can be turned into a short tourist trip that lets you explore the best of the Twin Cities at your own pace. The exclusive, customized tours take off every 10 minutes by utilizing Orpheo and easy-access Metro Transit that brings you directly to your destinations and back to the airport on time for your departure flight. Along with the Orpheo audio player, you will receive a city map with attractions and station locations clearly labeled, a Go-To Card for the Metro Transit train, and coupons for great deals at businesses along the light-rail route. Visit the Mall of America, explore the Mississippi River, learn local history and much, much more by simply pressing the designated button on your Orpheo. This tour is especially attractive to en route Geotourist and young travelers. To learn more about this exciting new city tour, please see the following article: http://www.thelinemedia.com/features/msptours101211.aspx. or http://www.msptours.com/
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Official Audio Tours of Grand Central Terminal Offered for First Time MTA Metro-North Railroad Offers Entertaining, Informative History of the Terminal  One of the most popular destinations in New York City - Grand Central Terminal - now has an official, self-guided audio tour available in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Japanese
MTA Metro-North Railroad, which operates the Terminal, has teamed up with Orpheo USA, one of the world’s most experienced producers of audio tours, to give tourists, travelers and locals alike a history of the terminal filled with interesting details and insights. “The demand for this service is obvious to anyone who uses the terminal regularly,” said Metro-North President Howard Permut. “Group tours of the Terminal are wildly popular and we often see huge groups of people huddled around a guide, struggling to hear.” “Metro-North has seized the opportunity to offer an entertaining, official and inexpensive tour, while creating a new stream of revenue for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority,” said MTA Chairman Jay Walder. “We expect it to be a hit.” The Orpheo Group has equipped famous sites all over the world including several renowned New York sites such as the Empire State Building, the U.S.S. Intrepid and the Museum of the City of New York. Other famous venues are the Great Wall of China, the Prado Museum in Madrid, the Kremlin in Moscow, the Acropolis Museum in Athens, and Monaco Palace among others. "Orpheo has installed many historical sites around the world, but this is the first train station that we have ever equipped with an audio tour - and what an exciting site it is!" said Orpheo Group President, Alain Eisenstein. "Grand Central Terminal is so full of history, secrets, and so much more. I have learned so many things about this site in the development of this project that I now understand where the heart of New York is. We worked closely with the team at Metro-North Railroad to create the content which will provide one of the most unique visitor experiences in our nearly 20 years of designing audio tours." |
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Tutankhamun Exhibition – “His Tomb and Treasures” now showing in Cologne (Germany) and soon in Manchester (UK)  Through March, 20 2011, the exhibition of the legendary Pharaoh Tutankhamun will be open to visitors in Cologne, Germany at the EXPO XXI. The exhibit is a unique presentation of the spectacular finds that the British archeologist Howard Carter uncovered in November, 1922. More than 1,000 original replicas, which were made by the best Egyptian craftspeople of superb quality, true to scale, provide a comprehensive picture of the sovereign who died at a young age, and his monumental sepulture. The exhibits also offer diverse insights into Egyptian society under the reign of the Pharaohs. A completely new audio tour, which was recorded by the Orpheo Group in Berlin, Germany and Grenoble, France, provides a thrilling experience in exploring the exhibition with the Orpheo Mini audioguide system. Since March 2008, the exhibition has run in Zurich, Barcelona, Budapest, Hamburg and Madrid. Starting on October 22, 2010, a comparable exhibition, also with the Orpheo Mini, will open its doors in Manchester, Great Britain. For further information about the exhibition, please visit www.tut-ausstellung.com and www.tutankhamunmanchester.com |
Audioguide from Orpheo in the St. Nicholas Church in Berlin 
After two years of renovation the St. Nicholas Church in Berlin was re-opened as a Museum on March 21, 2010. The oldest building in Berlin, which is the heart of the well-known Nikolai Quarter, will again attract visitors from all over the world. An audio tour produced by Orpheo Germany will lead the visitors Russian through the exhibition in German, English, Spanish and Russian. Among the seven the topics covered by the tour are the early city history of Berlin, the history of the church, the liturgy of the church before and after the reformation as well as the large collection of burial monuments. |
The Great Wall of China
 The audio guide visit at the Great Wall of China is now available with the Orpheo MINI! The tour is a great success for Orpheo's office in China.
An imaginary character Li Wei invites visitors to travel back in time to discover the mysteries of the Great Wall. The tour begins in Badaling which is one of the most beautiful and well preserved sections of the Great Wall. The tour is available in 10 languages. |
The Intrepid: "launch into Sea, Air and Space with the Orpheo MINI" 
June 2009 Since 1982, the USS Intrepid has welcomed more than 10 million visitors as the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space museum. The Intrepid Museum seeks to “educate the public and honor our heroes” through a variety of interactive exhibits and immersion into the history of this famous vessel. The museum pier also includes the Concorde Jet, Growler Submarine and other sea, air, and space crafts and artifacts. |
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Orpheo USA New-York Historical Society September 2008 Orpheo-USA recently installed a new audio tour for teenagers at the New-York Historical Society. The Orpheo Mini audioguide plays audio messages recorded by New York City high school student-interns covering topics relating to Revolutionary war hero Marquis de Lafayette’s return to America in 1824. |
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