You can download the Stedelijk Museum ARtours app from the app store. The app allows you to experience interactive tours on your smartphone and enjoy the rich content (video, audio, photos, stories, tasks and Augmented Reality additions) as you explore the museum or the streets of Amsterdam.
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This app fully describes all the UNESCO World Heritage sites. The prestigious List includes some of the most famous places in the world, such as the ancient city of Petra in Jordan, the legendary Acropolis in Athens, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and Machu Picchu, the ‘Lost City of the Incas’, in Peru.
This app allows users to create their own digital silkscreen prints and share them with friends. Users can learn more about the silk-screening process as well as about the museum.
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.
msu.seum, a native iOS and Android application
msu.seum connects cultural heritage directly to place, highlighting both what is known as well as the scholarly narrative of the archaeological and historical research. Compared to other geolocative mobile applications, msu.seum functions less like a “check-in” system and more like a museum tour guide that will address the cultural heritage of campus. The ultimate goal of msu.seum is to provide an engaging way for users to interact with the cultural heritage of Michigan State University.
“Explore 35 centuries of glass art. This app from The Corning Museum of Glass showcases more than 100 highlights of the world’s best glass museum, from an ancient Egyptian glass portrait of a pharaoh to Venetian glass masterpieces to works by modern and contemporary artists like Louis Comfort Tiffany, Emile Galle, Dale Chihuly, and Josiah McElheny.”
Gives you a walking tour of the site, augmented reality photo
tours, and an interactive timeline with witness accounts of what happened (2011).
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).
Use DAM_SCOUT to scan QR codes wherever you see them in the museum and tune into conversations with artists, seek out hidden information about the museum, and tap into related content.
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).