Museum Guide: Art History

Learn art history from the works themselves, at home or standing in front of them. Museum Guide takes you through nine great museums: the Louvre, the Vatican Museums, the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée de l'Orangerie, the Rijksmuseum, the British Museum, the National Gallery, the Van Gogh Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 359 WORKS, TOLD WELL Every work has an original article: what you are looking at, who made it, why it matters and what to notice up close. Read it, or tap Listen for recorded narration in English or Chinese. Narration keeps playing from the Lock Screen. ART HISTORY FROM YOUR SOFA You don't need a ticket. Browse every work in a collection, or follow a tour from home and let the narration walk you through it. A timeline puts every work in its time, across museums and countries, and nearly 400 glossary entries explain the artists, movements and techniques behind them. TOURS FOR THE DAY YOU GO Follow 37 tours, from the masterpieces you came to see to quieter routes through a single collection. Each stop tells you where to walk next and how long the tour takes. POINT THE CAMERA (BETA) Not sure what you are looking at? Point the camera at a painting or sculpture and the app finds it in the guide, using on-device machine learning. The picture never leaves your phone. READY FOR THE MUSEUM'S WI-FI Text and pictures are built in. Download a museum's recordings and full-size photos before you go, and the guide works with no connection at all. KEEP WHAT YOU LOVE Save works to collections and add your own notes. IN ENGLISH AND CHINESE Switch the reading language at any time, or show both together; the narration follows. On iPhone, iPad and Mac. MUSEUM GUIDE PREMIUM Recognising artworks with the camera is always free, and opening them from the camera is free 3 times a day. Premium opens as many as you like, keeps your collections and notes in sync across your devices with iCloud, and removes ads. Premium is a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, charged to your Apple Account. It renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period; manage or cancel it in your account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Museum Guide is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of the museums it covers.