AppleVisit live museums through MoMA application for iPhone

Visit live museums through MoMA application for iPhone

MoMA App iPhoneMobile aficionados appreciating creativity, authentic designs and craving to visit exhibitions or events might be seen grinning from ear to ear after reading this tidbit. Well, the Museum of Modern Art unleashed the MoMA application for the iPhone and iPod touch users. Through this tool artwork fans can connect to the Museums unique collections, exhibitions, events and more right on their handy devices.

With accessibility to a portfolio of about 32,000 artworks, users can get instant collection of art terms and artist biographies on their devices. Other than this, it also includes calendar information of current and upcoming exhibitions, daily events and film screenings. The application offers a variety of audio tours like MoMA audio programs with five distinct options such as Special Exhibitions, Modern Voices, Modern Kids, MoMA Teen Audio and Visual Descriptions with the ability to surf by floor or stop number.

Allegra Burnette, MoMA’s Creative Director of Digital Media, remarked, “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.”

Users can snap images of their favorite artworks inside the Museum and further send as postcards to their friends and family via Facebook or Twitter as well. While exploring the Museum, music lovers can listen to their favorite tracks selected from their respective music collection. The specialized graphics of the visual interface is claimed to be designed in-house and when utilized on the new iPhone 4G, users can view even the minute details with much more clarity on their high resolution retina display.

The MoMA application can be downloaded from the App store for free. It will follow the company’s first e-book application Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night spring 2010 release.

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