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The National Gallery in London has a great iPhone application created. The mobile phone from Apple could be the traditional exhibition catalog competes.

IPhone App “Love Art” of the National Gallery in London offers the amateur art-lovers as new perspectives on the great masters and their works. So you experience Mars in Post Orgasmic fatigue condition, learns that Vincent van Gogh also a gifted writer and unpleasant time comrade was discovered in a work of Da Vinci painting in a painting and is caught, how the naked rear view of Venus. A selection of 250 masterpieces can be viewed on the iPhone display admired. Professionally prepared audio and video reports from critics, experts and restorers, allow for a slightly different insight into the impressive art collection of the National Gallery. The lazy amateur art museum in the handy form brought into the living room and art connoisseurs may have numerous small details and anecdotes about the masters and paintings presented show surprise.

With 209 megabytes proud “Love Art” is one of the largest in the iTunes Apps offering. Accordingly, the installation brings the iPhone to the brink of overheating. This can include the entire program with multimedia features to be used offline. The rudimentary interface with modest two categories and the high-resolution zoom function, which only twelve of the 250 paintings offered to work, are as small criticisms thereof.

Audio Guide and Catalog in a

Nevertheless, the App of the National Gallery, the potential for the audio guide to replace. Not only that, the e-book boom could thus also to the world of museum catalogs overlap. Instead of weighing several tons could be catalogs Da Vinci, Renoir and Van Gogh conveniently in the pocket. The museum is virtually in the living room. Nor can you “Love Art” for a limited time free install soon, but the app should be a profitable source of revenue for the art museum. Other museums have already submitted or are following suit.

The Historical Museum Bern offers an audio guide in the form of an iPhone App to. Costs 4.40 francs the multimedia program. The auction house Christie’s also tried a new app with the art sale in the digital era catapult. Soon you will be offered in real time on the iPhone can make. And the New York Museum of Modern Art on Twitter asks: “What features do you want to on an iPhone app for a particular museum?”