Museums play an important role in enhancing one’s understanding of history, but typically they attract only the cultural elite. The Louvre Abu Dhabi wants to transcend that barrier. Its vision is to become a global platform that brings together people from different countries, cultures, religions, across various age groups and from all walks of life.

To mark what would have been David Bowie’s 72nd birthday, the musical innovator is getting an innovative app. The David Bowie Is . . . augmented-reality app is based on the record-breaking museum exhibition of the same name, which toured the world before ending after a run at New York’s Brooklyn Museum […]

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 […]