Art museums are increasingly using Apps to share their Art
We wanted to share a great article from the Pittsburgh Tribune that talks about how some of the big art museums are using mobile apps to share their collections.
While all of the apps mentioned are custom built apps for these specific uses, the Tour Buddy App Builder allows our clients to easily create a great app that can show off their collection for a fraction of the cost of the custom app and without the intensive time commitment that comes with creating a custom app.
Here are some excerpts from the article. See the full article here: http://triblive.com/aande/museums/3895491-74/pop-app-warhol#axzz2TBobSAAd
Sometimes making time to visit museums is difficult, but increasingly phone and tablet applications are allowing patrons to carry a world of art in their pockets and many even let people put their own spin on these masterpieces.
Many of the most famous museums in the world have apps that allow viewers to check out their collections or plan visits. For example:
• The Museum of Modern Art app includes an index of all works and artists featured in the collection as well as a database of art terms, and MoMA Tracks allows visitors to select their own music to listen to while exploring the museum or the app. A newly released MoMA Art Lab app is designed for children to create artworks using shapes, lines and colors.
• The Tate Museum in London has 16 apps, mostly free. They range from the educational, such as the Tate Guide to Modern Art Terms, to the just-for-fun: the Muybridgizer allows you to create an Eadweard Muybridge-style animation using your iPhone camera.
• An updated Louvre Museum app released last year has more than 100 images from the collection.
• The American Museum of Natural History has several apps, including one devoted to its dinosaur collection and one that helps you navigate through the New York City site.
• The Rodin Museum in Philadelphia app shows 31 sculptures by Rodin with audio and visual information on the objects, the artist and the museum.
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