There's a good souvenir shop, and museum guides can be hired for city tours in English.

It helps the crops grow, a museum guide explains to three teenage girls.

The sensation was a little like getting stuck with an encyclopedic museum guide who eclipses the work by standing in front of each painting.

Also it has published the first and only online museum guide providing detailed information about museums in every African country.

They also hope to offer educational programs and perhaps involve teen-agers as museum guides.

Most days its sails are raised and museum guides talk about life aboard the ship.

They may also be stopped occasionally by museum guides acting as "police" and "questioned" about their assumed identity.

Visitor will enter the code assigned to the object to the electronic museum guide and the related content is provided.

Several are still in clanking good working order, as the museum guides are happy to demonstrate.

They include family workshops, the distribution of written museum guides and on-line information for families on the museum's Web site, www.Metmuseum.org.