National Gallery of Art DC 4+

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Designed for iPad

    • 3.1 • 43 Ratings
    • Free

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Description

Become 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

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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.
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*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.

What’s New

Version 3.63

Improved messaging and much shorter delays when user has bluetooth disabled in settings.

Ratings and Reviews

3.1 out of 5
43 Ratings

43 Ratings

Justatad ,

Well executed but lacking

The map is great, but there are only a handful of audio files for the paintings. A missed an opportunity. How great it would be to be able to hear about each painting, like a personal tour.

Michael696 ,

Now 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.

Tivans608 ,

Could be improved but massively better than other museum apps

Like possibility to listen or read as part of tour of selected artworks - it helped to provide the context and insight to better appreciate the work - but why not include all works? Also liked that other artists who are in the collection and were somehow linked to a piece were called out - but then it was hard to find them without guidance. Having used this app on several visits I kind of expected the same standard for other art museums. What a mistake- this is the bar! Well done NGA but keep improving it!

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The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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