United StatesBecome your own guide with this ultimate companion to your museum visit. An interactive map pinpoints your location and brings you the fascinating stories behind the masterpieces you see before you. With more than 130 audio stops and 1,000 object descriptions written by National Gallery of Art curators, you’ll discover the only Leonardo da Vinci painting in the Americas, the largest and last of Alexander Calder’s famous mobiles, and thousands of works in between. • Pinpoint your location on an interactive map to navigate the West Building, East Building, and Sculpture Garden • Locate hundreds of artworks in the galleries • Listen to audio from Gallery curators or read expanded information about artworks • Find museum stores, restrooms, elevators, restaurants, and other amenities __ About the National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art is a national art museum in Washington, DC, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets along Constitution Avenue NW. The Gallery’s collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present. The National Gallery of Art preserves, collects, exhibits, and fosters understanding of works of art at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards. Entry to the permanent collection, exhibitions, and programs is always free of charge. __ *GPS usage: Continued use of the GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. This app is optimized to conserve as much battery as possible.
Useless
Go to see Rothko exhibit. Type Rothko in app search bar to see where to go. “No results”
United StatesSimple would’ve been better
Looks like a lot of effort to make it cool and interactive but I don’t need a mandatory carousel of functionality every time I open it, or fancy interactive maps I can’t move around. App crashes immediately after I tap my search result.
United StatesWorst museum app I’ve ever used
The app constantly crashes, especially when you click on a painting or if you leave the app to take a picture. As if it wasn’t annoying enough, every time you reopen the app you have to follow a tutorial before you get to the map. I’ve tried to follow the masterpiece path and by now I think I watched the tutorial over 20 times because the app keeps crashing. So disappointing.
United StatesPromising but issues
The app is promising - offers some good content, has an interactive map, etc. BUT if you exit the app (for instance, to check a text message or take a photo), the app totally restarts. You have to go through the intro again, you lose your place if you were listening to audio, etc.
United StatesNow Hopelessly Broken on iPhone & iPad
Update: I updated the app from 3.55 to 3.61 on my iPad and (accidentally) my iPhone, both running their 16.6 OSes. And while I can get past the startup screens to the maps on both, there's little point in doing so. Select "East Building: Ground Level" from the menu or by clicking its map. You get "West Building: Ground Floor". And that's not the only floor that doesn't produce what it should. On a 9.7" iPad Pro, when you start the app, the three intro-screen selection dots overlap the "Skp" (first two screens) and "Start Exploring" (third screen) buttons. The upshot is that there is no active area for the "Start Exploring" button, and you cannot use the app on smaller-screen iPads (generalizing). Another reviewer notes the same prolen on his unspecified iPad. It appears that the Gallery developers should beta-test on a wider variety of devices before shipping.
United StatesReally wanted it to work
I tried over and over again to get the app to work, but every time I tried to open up one of the highlighted works for each floor, it would crash. It also doesn’t have audio guides for some of the paintings, and the descriptions are also limited to certain paintings. It also isn’t updated very often since they had descriptions for paintings that weren’t in the rooms anymore..
United StatesDoes Not Work on Some (or All) 9.7" iPads
On a 9.7" iPad Pro, when you start the app, the three intro-screen selection dots overlap the "Skp" (first two screens) and "Start Exploring" (third screen) buttons. The upshot is that there is no active area for the "Start Exploring" button, and you cannot use the app on smaller-screen iPads (generalizing). Another reviewer notes the same prolen on his unspecified iPad. It appears that the Gallery developers should beta-test on a wider variety of devices before shipping.
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Improved messaging and much shorter delays when user has bluetooth disabled in settings.
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