Tate Liverpool launches first UK iPhone art exhibition tour

Tate Liverpool, one of the Tate art galleries scattered around the UK (the two main galleries are in London, another is in St Ives) has opened an experimental online exhibition tour for iPhone and iPod Touch owners, which it says is the first of its kind in the country.

From now until the end of August, visitors to the Gustav Klimt exhibition will be able to browse the free guide content to their iPhones over the gallery's wifi network, or download it beforehand as a podcast. Spare iPod touches with the content pre-loaded will be available for hire for just $6 (£3).

According to an article about the experiment in Design Week magazine, the guide has been very popular and upped average visit times from 45 minutes to three hours.

If you want to try the tour for yourself without making the trip to Liverpool, you can enjoy it in full on the web.

Thanks to Jonathan for the tip.

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Source: http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/gustavklimt/tou…

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andrew

Damn. That looks awesome. Im glad they have the podcast available for those not in the UK.

Im downloading it right now, as klimt is one of my all time favorite artists.

August 14 2008 at 1:43 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

TheOtherSteve

Art sites like this are what make apps like iEnvision (for iPhone or iPod touch) shine ... I'll add this gallery to my iEnvision group, and then have instant, fresh slideshows to tap into. Altho iEnvision can do so much more (it's a graphics web browser), art and photography look great on those gorgeous screens. Here's their site:

http://www.we-envision.com/

And their subset, mini-app, "Art Envi", was #1 in Japan's App Store for a week or 2, I heard.

August 13 2008 at 10:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ben Lawson

Interesting. I was recently at the MoMA in New York and they have a iPhone-friendly web site that provides commentary and details about a number of items in their collection. An amazing resource! http://www.moma.org/wifi/

August 13 2008 at 12:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply