{"id":2939,"date":"2026-06-04T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/06\/04\/tom-hanks-oprah-winfrey-to-voice-audio-guides-at-obama-presidential-center\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:14:00","slug":"tom-hanks-oprah-winfrey-to-voice-audio-guides-at-obama-presidential-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/06\/04\/tom-hanks-oprah-winfrey-to-voice-audio-guides-at-obama-presidential-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey to Voice Audio Guides at Obama Presidential Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p> \tSome very familiar voices will guide visitors on the audio tours of the Obama Presidential Center \u2014\u00a0and not just the former president and first lady.<\/p>\n<p> \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/oprah-winfrey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_oprah-winfrey_1\" data-tag=\"oprah-winfrey\">Oprah Winfrey<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/tom-hanks\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tom-hanks_1\" data-tag=\"tom-hanks\">Tom Hanks<\/a> will narrate portions of the audio tour for the presidential library, and prolific voice actor Cree Summer will narrate a family-centric guide. The Obama Center\u2019s audio guides will live on the Bloomberg Connects app, which provides audio guides for a host of cultural institutions, including LACMA, the Guggenheim Museum and the Academy Museum.  <\/p>\n<p> \tThe Obama Center is scheduled to open June 19 in Jackson Park on Chicago\u2019s South Side.   \t<\/p>\n<p> \tWinfrey will narrate the center\u2019s campus guide, which details the building of the 19-acre campus and its roots in the neighborhood. Barack and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/michelle-obama\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michelle-obama_1\" data-tag=\"michelle-obama\">Michelle Obama<\/a>, artist Richard Hunt \u2014 whose final commissioned work is on the grounds \u2014\u00a0chef Cliff Rome and NBA star Stephen Curry are also featured in the campus guide.<\/p>\n<p> \tSummer (<em>A Different World, Rugrats<\/em>) will provide the voices of the Obamas\u2019 dogs, Bo and Sunny, in an interactive version of the campus guide designed for elementary school-age visitors. <\/p>\n<p> \tHanks will narrate the museum guide, describing key exhibits that detail the Obama family\u2019s time in the White House and moments from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/barack-obama\/\" id=\"auto-tag_barack-obama_1\" data-tag=\"barack-obama\">Barack Obama<\/a>\u2018s campaign and presidency.  <\/p>\n<p> \tKareem Dale, Obama\u2019s special assistant for disability policy during his tenure, will narrate the audio descriptive tour for the center. Bloomberg Connects will also feature a guide to the artworks at the library, introduced by Michelle Obama and featuring commentary from the artists behind the work.   \t<\/p>\n<p> \t\u201cWe are excited to enhance the visitor experience at the Obama Presidential Center through our campus audio guide, created in partnership with Bloomberg Connects,\u201d said\u00a0Valerie Jarrett, CEO of The Obama Foundation. \u201cThroughout our campus visitors will experience how ordinary people who work together are able to do extraordinary things through exhibits, storytelling, interactive exhibits, art, and programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some very familiar voices will guide visitors on the audio tours of the Obama Presidential Center \u2014\u00a0and not just the former president and first lady. Oprah Winfrey and Tom Hanks will narrate portions of the audio tour for the presidential library, and prolific voice actor Cree Summer will narrate a family-centric guide. The Obama Center\u2019s audio guides will live on the Bloomberg Connects app, which provides audio guides for a host of cultural institutions, including LACMA, the Guggenheim Museum and the Academy Museum. The Obama Center is scheduled to open June 19 in Jackson Park on Chicago\u2019s South Side. Winfrey will narrate the center\u2019s campus guide, which details the building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[434,2,1745,28,1527,54,404],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-hollywood","category-michelle-obama","category-news","category-oprah-winfrey","category-politics-news","category-tom-hanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}