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.
Gives users the ability to zoom in on various
famous art works with some commentary (2009).
This app is downloaded simultaneously with the
EyeTouch tour app. It creates a scavenger hunt for children by showing them a thumbnail of a piece of art that they then have to find in the museum. Once they find the artwork, there’s a brief commentary about the art piece that can be used to facilitate discussion between the child and adults in the museum (2011).
The “Eye-Touch” tour is the first fully dedicated
iPod Touch program aimed at school-age children and their families. The program features rich audio-visual interpretation, ‘behind the scenes’ video footage of contemporary artists featured in the collection, as well as playful, on-screen activities, encouraging deeper exploration and discovery of the Museum (2011).
Visitors to the museum can download this app prior to their visit and see all the exhibits and floor plans of the museum. They can then select pre-determined routes or create their own routes based on their personal interests. They can then sync their visit with social media and offer feedback on various exhibits (2011).
The app serves as an interactive tour guide. It seeks to tell a
story that takes visitors through the Vatican combining video, maps, audio, and text. Looks like it could be used either in conjunction with a physical visit or as an alternative to a physical visit. (2009)