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Experience the British Museum with Dex

The British Museum Dex experience is an interactive self-guided tour available exclusively with selected British Museum admission tickets booked through Headout.
Put on your earphones and follow a story that unfolds through the museum’s galleries, connecting the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, and the Egyptian mummies with the smaller objects and inscriptions that most visitors pass in the same rooms. Historical and fictional characters lead you through stories of the decipherment of hieroglyphs; the Assyrian kings carved into the lion-hunt reliefs; the Sutton Hoo ship burial; the Lewis Chessmen; the moai Hoa Hakananai'a; and the arguments about where these objects belong, accompanied by original music and immersive sound design.

How Dex guides you through the museum

• Dex uses your phone’s location to guide you along a recommended route covering the Great Court, the Egyptian sculpture gallery, the Parthenon galleries, the Assyrian reliefs, the Egyptian mummies, Sutton Hoo, and the Enlightenment gallery.
  
• As you reach each location, it automatically begins the story connected to what you are seeing.
  
• The route is only the starting point. When an object, an inscription, or a carved figure catches your attention, pause and ask your Dex guide a question.
  
• Photograph a supported object, relief, or inscription to uncover more about it, open a related story, or return to the route when you are ready.
  
• Dex also points you towards recommended viewpoints, photo spots, galleries, and cases that most visitors walk past on the way to the highlights. You decide when to pause, where to go deeper, and when to continue.

How Dex differs from an audio guide and a group tour

An audio guide gives you a collection of prepared recordings. Dex builds those stories into a location-aware route, automatically connects them to what is around you, and lets you ask questions or investigate supported objects along the way.
A group tour gives you live interpretation from a human guide while following a scheduled departure, shared route, and group pace.
Dex offers a different experience: a structured tour that you can begin when you choose, pause whenever something interests you, and explore at your own pace. Choose Dex if you want the direction and storytelling of a guided visit with the freedom to explore the museum independently.

Unlock the British Museum Dex

Selected British Museum admission tickets booked through Headout unlock the complete British Museum Dex experience at no additional cost. It is not available as a standalone purchase or with tickets bought elsewhere. After booking:

• Download the Dex app.
  
• Sign in with your Headout details.
  
• The British Museum experience will unlock automatically.