ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES CONNECTS WITH PEOPLE ALL AROUND THE WORLD

On Tuesday 22 June 2010, the Art Gallery of New South Wales announced the provision of free access to a selection of rich educational content for life-long learners, students and people interested in knowing more about Sydney’s premier gallery. Previously this ‘service’ has only been available to Australian universities and schools.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales now joins a number of distinguished organisations including over 600 universities and numerous schools that distribute their information free to the public.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales, which last year had 1.3 million visitors, sees this as a significant opportunity to allow people anywhere at any time to access the Gallery’s collection of lectures, exhibition-related video and audio, children’s tours, and Collection audio tours.

Belinda Hanrahan at the Art Gallery of New South Wales said itunes U provides another flexible way in which the Gallery can provide its information, knowledge and resources to anyone, anywhere in the world … as it’s such a powerful and user-friendly system for everything from lectures and tours to interviews.

“This is such a wonderful way for our Gallery to connect with people,” she affirmed.

“The Gallery increasingly uses the latest technology to engage with our audiences and itunes U provides another way for people to learn about us, bringing some of our best lectures to people around the world. Video and audio media is a powerful communication and learning tool.”

Home to more than 250,000 free lectures, videos, films and other resources from learning institutions all over the world, itunes U is an innovative way to get educational content into the hands of students and lifelong learners everywhere. The content is easily downloaded and viewed on any Mac, PC, ipod, iphone, or ipad.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales content can be found within the ‘Beyond Campus’ section of itunes U.