Remember the first time you used the handy-dandy map app on your smartphone? The magic of the blue-dot and step-by-step directions has undoubtedly changed the way we think about navigation, the physical world around us, and it has also given life to a new layer of location-aware experiences and conveniences.

″Start from his first season at Maryland, Kentucky, Texas A&M and the Alabama years,” Ken Gaddy, Director of the Paul W. Bryant Museum, told WBRC. He showed off the new touch screen that’s been up and running for more than a week now. The video board allows the museum to […]

At this time of year, when The Art Newspaper publishes its annual round-up of museum visitor figures, it is fascinating to see how venues around the world have performed. However, a “league table” only tells part of the complex story of how cultural institutions reach and engage audiences. Numbers are a […]

He showed off the new touch screen that’s been up and running for more than a week now. “You can go into a team picture, go to a row, pick a player. Bruce Stevens, there will be multiple pictures of the player,” Gaddy added. This video board is the highlight […]

Visitors to the Mauritshuis museum can use their smartphone to experience Rembrandt van Rijn’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp in augmented reality, thanks to Dutch design agency CapitolaVR. To mark 350 years since the passing of the 17th-century Dutch painter, CapitolaVRcreated the Rembrandt Reality app that uses augmented reality to […]

If you were at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a certain Wednesday earlier this year, you might have noticed something odd. You might have spotted a visitor or two — most likely people in their 20s or 30s — pondering one of the museum’s iconic works, such as “Self-Portrait” by Rembrandt, or “Self-Portrait […]

And with museums and other heritage operations often short of cash, and lacking the resources to provide hardware and technical support to visitors, embracing mobile technology in the form of apps is proving to be an effective means by which to modernize their offerings for a relatively modest outlay.

Barriers to entry for the coveted younger demographic include a lack of awareness of arts organizations, busy schedules, and misperceptions about ticket prices. Or to put it another way: “Kids! You can talk and talk till your face is blue. Kids! But they still do just what they want to […]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art teamed up with Microsoft and MIT to find ways to transform the museum experience using Microsoft AI. Two years ago,  The Metropolitan Museum of Art launched their Open Access platform, making all images and data relating to public-domain artworks in its collection available to everyone online. The goal was […]

With over 2 billion smartphone owners on the planet and most Americans spending at least 40% of their day using devices for things like grocery shopping, running errands, and even getting their dog walked, tech is here to stay. It’s everywhere -including museums and cultural institutions. And it is changing the way people engage […]