Hundreds of exhibitions have been postponed, and art institutions and museums closed, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They include the Watts Gallery-Artists’ Village in Surrey, which closed one week into its new exhibition exploring the art critic John Ruskin. Smartify uses cookies to enhance your experience. The app is home to a database of around two million artworks from more than 120 venues. To celebrate we’re giving away two British Museum memberships - read on to discover how you can win … The Parthenon Sculptures are just one of the 9,000+ collection items now available on the Smartify app. Visitors can download tours offline if the museum has connectivity issues; the app can process payment transactions; and it shifts visitors from “leaning in” to read exhibitions panels to looking at their own personal devices. audio tour will soon also be added by The Museum of London on Smartify. This is where universal apps with easy to use content creation tools that work across multiple museums come in. This includes the Watts Gallery-Artists’ Village in Surrey. In addition, developing and maintaining an app is costly and time intensive. Why the global pandemic marks the end of the rented audio guide. The Museum of London is soon to add an audio tour of its Clash: London Calling display. By using this website, you agree to our Outlook’ is India’s most vibrant weekly news magazine with critically and globally acclaimed print and digital editions. AI assisted tour generation could mean suggesting routes through museums to visitors based on current capacity levels in order to avoid bottlenecks whilst …
“We started with around 30 museums, predominantly in the UK, and now we’re global with 2m artworks and we are the world’s most downloaded museum app.”. At times like this, really strange times, people look to art and music and culture for inspiration, solace … a sense of normal. If we’re living in a world where we are all more hesitant to shake hands for years to come, the idea of visitors feeling comfortable picking up a device that has been potentially handled by hundreds if not thousands of visitors is unthinkable. The Smartify app was founded in the UK as a social enterprise by four friends in 2017. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the exhibitions that were due to open but now cannot will be launched on the app as audio and visual tours. As we ease out of lockdown how will museums make visitors feel comfortable to return and keep them safe once they arrive? And it's free!"