Royal Museums Greenwich offers British Sign Language (BSL) guided tours across our sites.
Join BSL guide and historian John Wilson and discover more about our collection and Britain’s maritime history across four sites: the National Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark, the Queen’s House and The Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre.
All our tours are designed for D/deaf people who are BSL users. There is no English voiceover.
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Discover BSL tours at Royal Museums Greenwich
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About your BSL tour guide
John Wilson was born deaf. He is a freelance consultant working in the field of Deaf Arts and British Sign Language, with a wide range of experience as a deaf arts practitioner, a theatre and television actor, a creative signer, and a director of numerous productions. John works with many museums and galleries across the UK. He leads BSL tours at London Zoo, Stonehenge, Tower Bridge and is an accredited BSL guide at Hampton Court Palace. He was the first profoundly deaf person to hold the roles of curator of a programme of BSL tours at the Royal Academy of Arts – such a role, and as External Examiner by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He has worked on several training programmes to prepare the next generation of Deaf BSL-guides.
Online BSL tours
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The Queen's House
Explore the Queen's House with this free online audio tour, which will take you through the highlights of the permanent collection.
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The National Maritime Museum
Follow this tour around the historic site and take a journey through maritime history with this free audio tour with British Sign Language.
