And now, you can hold one of the best museums in the world in the palm of your hand. If you have an iPhone.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City announced the launch of a new (and free) iPhone app that gives users access to 32,000 works of modern and contemporary art, a dictionary of art terms, and a database of artist bios. And if you’re lucky enough to visit the museum, you can also use the app to access a calendar of events and audio tours.
Here’s more from ArtDaily.org:
As a useful companion for visits to the Museum, the MoMA App offers users a chance to snap photos inside the Museum and send them as postcards, and allows visitors to select tracks from their own music libraries to listen to while touring the Museum. The application’s highly engaging visual interface was designed in-house, and when used with the new iPhone 4G and its high resolution and retina display, artworks can be viewed in the highest possible quality. The MoMA App is available as a free download from the App Store, and follows the spring 2010 release of the Museum’s first e-book app Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night.
“With MoMA’s new app and other upcoming initiatives, MoMA is taking advantage of features specific to an iPhone and iPod touch, and also actively building a platform for publishing content to multiple devices,” says Allegra Burnette, MoMA’s Creative Director of Digital Media.
Lexington has its own art-inspired app, Museum Without Walls, which lets users browse on a map the locations of certain works of public art, retrieve information about them, and accumulate points for visiting them. University of Kentucky adjunct faculty Christine Huskisson and Lisa Broome-Price of the Gaines Center for the Humanities conceived the app and are working with a team to identify the art represented. Expect to be downloading it this fall.
Thank you for mentioning Kentucky’s Museum Without Walls! We’re excited that its go-live date is approaching!