Museums go mobile

A number of museums have now gone mobile – they will offer images of famous works of art, photographs of historic personalities, voice and sound recordings, music and video for download to mobile devices.

They will offer some of the following content (from the press release):

“· Masterpieces as Wallpapers – Historical Recordings as Ringtones ·
Masterpieces from various epochs are available for download as wallpapers or screensavers or to be forwarded as greeting cards. From Breughel and Rubens to Schiele and Klimt, and from Cezanne to Van Gogh to just name a few of the present artists. The multimedia experience is enhanced by:

• Music by some of the world’s greatest composers, such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Original voice recordings, for example from the emperors Franz Joseph of Austria and Wilhelm II. of Germany, the German chancellor Hindenburg or Max Planck

• Films and interviews of Sigmund Freud • Recordings of ethnic or religious music as well as dialects from the last century from a variety of countries and cultures. The first multimedia-museum for mobile phones also offers background information, newsletters, up-to-date exhibition news in German and English and a greeting - cards section.”