Random Post: Radical change - the unfamiliar National Gallery
RSS .92| RSS 2.0| ATOM 0.3
  • Home
  • About MuseumLab
    •  

    Amsterdam Museums go Mobile

    n8 Mobile Museum Guide

    Readers of this blog have seen a recent surge in news on the Amsterdam Museum Night. The latest instalment in this series is the KPN Mobile Museum Guide. Visitors of the Museum Night can text ‘n8′ to 4628 to receive the complete program on their mobile phone. The Mobile Museum Guide includes an interactive map of Amsterdam with all the museums, the n8 blog, nachtgeluiden, a quiz and an interactive tour with Blue Tooth, designed for the Amsterdam City Archives.

    In the future, the n8 intends to build upon the current infrastructure to launch more services, such as streaming audio and video, mapping and tagging. The Mobile Museum Guide was launched on 24 October. The Amsterdam Museum Night will take place on Saturday 3 November.

    Related posts:  A Blog for the Amsterdam Museums  //  n8 will host Open Museum symposium at PICNIC 08  //  Museum Guide Robots Have Eyeball Heads  //  Listen to the history, present and future of the Amsterdam IJ bank  //  Tagging on Museum Wall  //

    This entry was posted on donderdag, oktober 25th, 2007 at 12:02 pm and is filed under Museum, Technology, Web 2.0. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

    2 Responses to “Amsterdam Museums go Mobile”

    1. Mike Ellis Says:
      oktober 26th, 2007 at 11:08 am

      Hey Juha. Thanks for pointing this out to me. What’s the technology - can it be used on most / all mobile phones or just a select few?

      Mike

    2. Juha van 't Zelfde Says:
      oktober 26th, 2007 at 11:54 am

      Hi Mike, you´re welcome. Nice to see you here. The technology has been built by Service2Media, and should work on most phones not older than 2 years. The application is Java-based, and can be downloaded by sending ‘n8′ (name of our event) to a designated number. You then receive a text message with a URL where you can download the app (300kb). Once installed, you won’t have to be online to use most of its functions, but for updates of the news, blog and upgrades you need to come online briefly. The program is rather light and works well on my Nokia N73. I really like the interactive map of Amsterdam with all the museums as clickable nodes. Also the navigation of the programme is very good, with a realtime timeline during the night. It shows you exactly where you are during the event (time that is, not location - not yet). You can see some screenshots here.

      Juha

    Leave a Reply