What do Madame X, a murder, and a mobile phone have in common? They are all part of Murder at the Met: An American Art Mystery, the first mobile detective game created by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in collaboration with Green Door Labs and TourSphere. [download here]
This is the official app of the Louvre. It has hundreds of zoomable images with augmented information. It also information about and history of the Louvre. It also allows for Facebook sharing.
Uses QR codes, but since the exhibit is a collection of works from artists around the world, each QR code takes you to more information about that artist and other work that they have done (2012).
The main feature of the app is an interactive story-driven exhibition tour featuring Augmented Reality (AR) experiences and mini-games. You can witness terracotta warriors come to life at the exhibition (for example, shooting and reloading crossbows) via AR technology, which superimposes animated 3D objects into the real exhibition gallery space (2011).
Because the museum is so large, they designed an app that can give specific, turn-by-turn directions by GPS inside the museum (2011). First ever special exhibition tour has been built into Explorer, taking you through “Brain: The Inside Story.”
Augmented reality app lets you turn exhibits into 3D representations on your mobile device. You can also take pictures of items within the museum to unlock more content and simulations on your device (2011).
The app features over 250 works of art in high resolution,
commentary from curators and videos. The app presents the most important works of Italian Renaissance portraiture and visitors can use it as a guide to the exhibition.
Allows visitors to explore Van Gogh’s personal letters,
commentary, and early sketches while viewing his art to give more of a context and humanization to his work. It also offers some commentary on the art itself.