Visual Art: Accessible Tour of Francis Bacon’s Studio at the Hugh Lane Gallery

Join the Hugh Lane Gallery for a tour for People who are Hard of Hearing of Francis Bacon’s Studio.

Visit the Hugh Lane on Thursday 19 June at 11am for a tour of Francis Bacon’s Studio and a discussion of the project that brought it to Dublin with Claire Crowley.

For these tours, the Hugh Lane uses devices as individual loop devices which connect with a microphone headset worn by the tour guide, that can transit to the loop devices. They can then be used by people with hearing aids to connect to or for those hard of hearing but who don’t have hearing aids, they can use their own or the gallery’s earpieces.

This event is free, but booking is essential at hughlane.ie

Please do contact the Education Team on 01 222 55 60 should you require assistance with booking a place over the phone or should you wish to discuss anything further.

Information on the T setting and Tours for Hearing Aid Users

It is necessary to have access to your T setting on your hearing aid to connect to the tour guide equipment.

Not all hearing aids actually have the T setting as part of their standard functions. However, the majority of hearing aids provided by the HSE do have the T setting available. The hearing aids need to be programmed by the audiologist to include the T-coil program/Loop program/T setting. Then the hearing aid user needs to understand how to access that program option, which is usually through pressing a button on their hearing aid or selecting this program from a drop-down list on an app on their mobile phone.

Many hearing aids now have Bluetooth programs/ Bluetooth compatibility access as standard, however, these tend to be designed to function with brand-specific products and are not compatible with the equipment being used during this tour.

Image: Francis Bacon’s Studio, photographed by Perry Ogden.