With the Bloomberg Connects app, explore interactive guides to over 1000+ museums, galleries, gardens, and cultural spaces from the palm of your hand. From behind-the-scenes guides to artist and expert-curated video and audio content, Bloomberg Connects makes it easy to discover arts and culture – anytime, anywhere.
• Plan and Discover: Prepare for your visit with our planning tools, then use the lookup numbers onsite for quick information about an unexpected find.
• On-Demand Content: Use the app onsite or on its own to bring exhibitions and collections to life with exclusive multimedia content created by our museum collaborators.
Bloomberg Philanthropies created the app to help make the art and offerings of cultural organizations more accessible – not just to those visiting in person but to people around the world.
Use the app to discover museums and cultural spaces worldwide including —The Andy Warhol Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Central Park Conservancy, The Dalí, Denver Art Museum, The Frick Collection, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Guggenheim, ICA/Boston, Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), The Met, MoMA, National Portrait Gallery (London), New York Botanical Garden, Noguchi Museum, The Phillips Collection, Serpentine, Storm King Art Center, Whitney Museum of American Art, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and more.
Bloomberg Connects benefits our partners – over 1000+ museums, galleries, gardens, and cultural spaces, with more joining every month – by providing a pre-built, easy-to-use app interface that can be customized to their content and mission.
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Have feedback? Let us know: feedback@bloombergconnects.org
I have used this app at some museums but this was my first virtual visit. I love that this home was saved in such a stunning fashion. Every floor shown was exceptional esp the 4th fl observatory that overlooked the Hudson, the Egyptian Revival music & art room and the stunning veranda with the Steiner dog represented for posterity. That must have been one pampered pooch. It’s amazing that a home built around our Civil War had so many bathrooms. Next time I travel from NYC to Albany on the Empire train I will try to take an actual tour of the home and grounds. I assume the home can be seen from the train but maybe it’s hidden by trees or the land. The trip up the Hudson is always enjoyable. Since there are so many trains daily it’s probably not far from one of the train stops.
Developer Response
We’re thrilled to hear you had a great time. Hope you’ll use the app again on your next museum visit!
So happy to discover this app!
seathinks
I’m super excited to discover this app on my visit to Frick Collection and Guggenheim. Even having arts background I’ve been struggling to understand some contemporary art or didn’t do enough research about each artist’s background. This app is a guide to all arts & culture organizations in my pocket. I enjoyed every visit to the museums included so much more now - I understand artistic choices now, enjoy behind the scene stories and little details that I would miss otherwise. I rediscovered art all over again and enjoy my time at the museums much more now.
Great resource to use onsite and at home
ZellijeRC
Loved how easy it was to use to get more information immediately about art in a museum, or even in a botanical garden. Super cool that it’s both text and audio because I cant always focus and read in a museum setting. Also love that I can go home, easily find an image of a piece of art and dive deeper. It’s one of my favorite features because I don’t always catch name of the artist or artwork so i appreciate the option to look up a painting by sight.
Poorly designed app that is annoying to use in a museum
ipd?
The use case of his app is very frequently pulling your phone from your pocket/purse and quickly accessing information. QUICKLY is the important word, but it fails at that.First, every time I open the app, it freezes for 5-10 seconds. Why? Who knows. Also the back button fails to work much of the time.Let's say that I'm in a gallery, and the numbers of each artwork increases sequentially. Not all galleries do this, but probably common enough. So if I'm at artwork #405 and need to get to #406 which is right next to it, there should obviously be a button to do that, right? Nope. I have back out, and input 406. FOR EVERY SINGLE ARTWORK. so frustrating.
Performance and usability improvements.
Version 2026.3.26
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BLOOMBERG CONSULTING LLC
Size
48.5 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
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