About
This app was conceived by an avid museum-goer who wanted to create a useful app for enjoying museums and learning about art, artists, and cultures from around the world and throughout history.
The artwork content for this app is currently limited to the artwork of The Metroplitian Museum of Art.
Many thanks to The Metropolitan Museum of Art for being such a constant inspiration and for offering the public APIs that made this app possible.
Visiting
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- Uses your location to find galleries and highlighted artworks nearest to you.
- Filter list by floor and department.
- Shows your distance from every gallery.
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- Shows your distance and relationship to the chosen gallery.
- Displays a compass to point you in the direction of specified galleries.
- Shows all artworks currently displayed in the gallery you selected.
- Gives you a map view of the museum, where the artwork is and your current location.
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- Three different itinerary types to choose from...
- Curated
- Random
- AI
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- Various collections of itineraries available.
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- Gives details about the curator.
- Lists artworks in itinerary.
- Gives explaination on why artwork was selected for the curation
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- Shows where each item in the curation is on a map.
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- Like a scavenger hunt, an artwork is selected for you to go find.
- Artworks are chosen randomly, so every adventure will always be unique.
- Skip an artwork and mark as found, to create a history of your journey.
- Learn more about artworks which are selected.
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- Select how long you plan to visit the museum for and which departments you're interested in viewing.
- AI will create a custom itenerary for you.
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- AI results, based on a 90 minute trip to The Met with an interest in American Art, Egyption Art and European Paintings.
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- Uses your location to find galleries and highlighted artworks nearest to you.
- Shows your distance from chosen galleries or artworks.
- Displays a compass to point you in the direction of specified galleries.
- Shows all artworks currently displayed in each gallery.
Searching The Collection
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- Search by artist name or gallery number.
- Toggle between viewing only artworks on display or all artworks in the collection.
- Search for audio guides.
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- Download a high resolution image of selected artwork.
- Add artwork to "Favorites".
- Read or listen to a description of the artwork.
- Find the gallery where the artwork is on display.
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- See your location in relationship to the artwork.
- View your distance from the artwork.
- A compass will point you in the direction of the artwork.
- View other artworks in the gallery.
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- See all artworks by the artist in the collection.
- Read or listen to the Wikipedia information on the artist.
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- View a list of all other artists in the collection who were producting works at the same time as the artwork you've selected.
- List is grouped by nationality, so you can view what other styles were being developed around the world at the time of your selected artwork.
- Artists with Wikipedia pages are links to display biographical information.
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- Uses the artworks creation date and the artists nationality to query AI.
- Find what culture was like when and where the artwork was created.
- Learn about the politics in the world where the artwork was created.
- Ask about the artists relationship with other artists at the time.
- Get a list of the top ten events effecting the world when the artwork was created.
Learning About Art
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- A painting from the European galleries is selected at random.
- Three additional artists of the era are also chosen at random.
- Select the artist who created the painting.
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- Use the drop down and slider to choose a date range.
- All artists in the collection that produced art during this period are show, group by nationality.
- An ask AI button is offered, which will ask what life was like for artists during the period you selected.
- Artists with Wikipedia pages are shown as links which, when clicked, will pull up biographical information on the artist..
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- Using the drop down, choose between techniques and genres.
- Making a selection pulls the information from Wikipedia.
- You can you text-to-audio to listen to the definition or follow a link to the full Wikipedia entry.