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Amy McMahon
6
tours
247
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4.8
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International educator, archeologist and certified guide with 20+ years experience leading groups
About
Tours in:
The United Kingdom
The United States

For travelers who want more than directions and highlights, these audio walking tours offer a deeper way of engaging with place. They invite listeners to slow down, read landscapes carefully, and explore how history, design, and human choices shape what we see.

With a background spanning archaeology, international education, curriculum design, and professional guiding, Amy approaches sites as layered texts rather than static landmarks—places shaped by intention, conflict, and change over time. Her tours focus on process as much as outcome: how memorials are conceived and built, how cities evolve over time, and how meaning is constructed through space, symbolism, and use. Rather than delivering a single authoritative narrative, she provides context and interpretive tools that encourage close observation, reflection, and independent thought.

She has spent more than two decades working across the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, including sixteen years based in Egypt as an educator and school leader. She has participated in archaeological excavations in Egypt, Israel, and the United States, supervised field schools, and translated academic research into accessible public history. As a certified tour director and licensed guide in New York City and Washington, DC, she has led adult and student groups through historically complex environments, balancing thoughtful interpretation with the realities of movement, logistics, and place.

Her VoiceMap tours are designed for curious listeners who value depth, nuance, and context—people interested not only in what they are seeing, but why it looks the way it does, and how our understanding of place continues to evolve over time.

Credentials
Education
  • BA History, Lemoyne College

  • MA Theology, Boston College

Certifications
  • Washington D.C Licensed Guide

  • ITMI Tour Director Certification

  • New York City Licensed Guide

Professional Association
  • International Association of Tour Directors and Guides

  • International Tour Management Institute

Achievements
  • Completed the Via Francigena

  • Children's book author

  • Archeologist

Top Sights
War And Military
Modern History
Salute American heroes on this powerful walk through sacred grounds

Walking Tour

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180 mins
Top Sights
War And Military
Modern History
Honor 184 lives through a landscape that transforms grief into memory

Indoor Tour

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45 mins
Public Art
Architecture
Modern History
Consider how artistic intent shaped national memory on a tour of DC's monuments

Walking Tour

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120 mins
Modern History
National Park
Public Art
Discover the stories and heroes behind the memorials of the National Mall

Walking Tour

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120 mins
Industrial Revolution
Local Legends
Social Movements
Follow in the footsteps of this town's changemakers, at girl power’s genesis

Walking Tour

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60 mins
Medieval History
Quirky
Ancient History
Trace the seam of history on the trail of London's Roman wall

Walking Tour

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75 mins