Bloomberg Connects

Bloomberg Consulting LLC

About this app

With the free Bloomberg Connects app, explore interactive guides to over 600 museums, galleries, sculpture parks, 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: Map out your visit with our planning tools in advance, 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.

Free to download and free to use, the app was created by Bloomberg Philanthropies 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, La Biennale di Venezia, Brooklyn Museum, Central Park Conservancy, The Dalí, Denver Art Museum, The Frick Collection, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Guggenheim Museum, Hammer Museum, ICA/Boston, Maison Européenne De La Photographie (MEP), The Met, MoMA, Mori Art Museum, MFA Boston, National Portrait Gallery (London), New York Botanical Garden, Noguchi Museum, The Phillips Collection, Royal Scottish Academy, Serpentine, Storm King Art Center, Whitney Museum of American Art, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and more.

Bloomberg Connects benefits our partners – over 600 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.

For more arts and culture inspo, follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Threads (@bloombergconnects).

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Ratings and reviews

The information it does have is good, though rather out of date. I used it at Yorkshire sculpture park and many sculptures were no longer present. It asks for location and has a map, but does not show your location on the map. Often forgets its place and goes back to the start screen and I have to re-select the sculpture park, click through to get to the menu, wait for it to load everything up again. The map is slow, jerky, and never stays where you left it.

Great way to get more detail at any of the supported museums, even for special exhibitions. However, having left the app open, I've seen that it continues to access the internet and has used some 3gb over the last five days! Presumably this can be modified to be like other apps 😊

Interface so laggy as to be unusable. Playback either wouldn't start or could not rewind. If I got to the end of an audio it immediately looped to start again. Fair phone 3+.

What's new

Performance and Usability Improvements.