Brooklyn Museum Launches Interactive Mobile App for Personalized Tours
On August 26, the Brooklyn Museum introduced a mobile web application designed as a personalized guide for visitors. This interactive tool allows users to create customized tours by accessing images from the museum's online archive, which are optimized for mobile viewing. Based on individual interests, the app provides tailored recommendations. A significant social feature enables visitors to preserve their input—including comments and selected objects—on the museum's interactive website, contributing to a growing database. This shared content becomes available to other visitors, fostering layered interactions and enhancing the museum experience. The application aims to add meaning through community engagement, with user-generated data continuously expanding the resource.
Key facts
- The Brooklyn Museum released a mobile web app on August 26, 2009
- The app serves as a personalized museum guide
- Visitors can create custom tours using images from the museum's online archive
- Images are formatted specifically for mobile devices
- The app makes recommendations based on user interests
- It includes a social component where visitor input is preserved on the museum's website
- Comments and chosen objects are added to a growing database
- Shared content is available to other museum visitors
Entities
Institutions
- Brooklyn Museum
Locations
- Brooklyn
- United States