A Nintendo 3DS game console helps a visitor to the Louvre study 'The Raft of the Medusa' by Theodore Gericault. The Paris museum is replacing its old audio guide system with Nintendos.

AP photo / Jacques Brinon

A Nintendo 3DS game console helps a visitor to the Louvre study 'The Raft of the Medusa' by Theodore Gericault. The Paris museum is replacing its old audio guide system with Nintendos.

Louvre goes visual with Nintendo 3DS as guide

By JAMEY KEATEN

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PARIS – The Louvre is used to dealing with antiquities: Nearly all of its thousands of works of art date to 1848 or earlier. Now, it wants to create a relic of its own – the old museum audio guide.

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