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Celebrity Cruises is debuting self-guided art tours on an iPad. An addition to the "Celebrity Life" series of onboard entertainment and enrichment activities, the iPads on each Solstice-class ship house floor plans of every deck with select works of art flagged. A guest simply touches the screen to select the work of art he or she would like to learn more about, and the screen transitions to full details about the piece, including the title of the work, artist's name, medium used, description and image. In addition to the art tour application, the iPads also present digital versions of each Solstice-class vessel's in-stateroom art catalogs.

With more than 14,000 works of original, contemporary art on its three Solstice ships alone, Celebrity has one of the world's largest corporate collections of contemporary art. Throughout the ships, a vast range of mediums is represented, including glass, acrylics, oils, photography, digital prints, video, etchings, sculptures and collages. Approximately 15 percent of the art on each Solstice-class ship is site-specific or commissioned artwork, such as the signature living trees in enormous vases suspended in the Grand Foyers.

Celebrity's new iPad art tours will be available on Celebrity Solstice beginning Aug. 15 and on Celebrity Eclipse and Celebrity Equinox beginning Aug. 21. The tours currently are in English and also will be offered in Spanish by the end of this year. Celebrity will add German and French versions in 2011. For more information, contact us at (877) 394-8130.  http://www.celebritycruisedestinations.com