Art Institute of Chicago App

The Art Institute of Chicago

About this app

Download the award-winning Art Institute of Chicago Official Mobile app.

The Art Institute has thousands of artworks on view—each with its own story to tell. Our app is your personal guide to the collection; introducing you to a world of art, culture, and creativity along the way.

There’s bound to be a tour that suits your interests. Whether it’s architecture or Impressionism, modern art or miniatures, the audio tours cover a range of subjects and are rich with behind-the-scenes anecdotes, unique and varied voices, and music that weaves a narrative thread. Plus, a location-aware map helps you orient yourself in the galleries and see which artworks are nearby. Members can even access a digital version of their member card so they can enjoy all their on-site benefits.

Hop on or off a tour at any time—and listen wherever you are, not just at the museum. A fresh and engaging experience of art awaits.

Ratings and reviews

The audio tour is worthless, it jumps between floors every few audio clips (The Essentoals Tour). Every few clips a restart was needed so that the audio clip will start. The audio clips are repetative, for example in the Miniatures Tour a few sentences repeated over and over again in almost every audio clip, which became very annoying, very quick. The app is a great idea, as the addmition fee is high, and the audio tour is an extra 7$. But please improve the app....

Great content and nicely done UI/UX but poorly implemented audio control. On LGs (G6-8) and Samsung S10 Androids the app does not allow the device to control volume. And there's no app volume control, so some tour's volume is at maximum, making them piercingly unlistenable. Not a hard thing to fix. Also it would be nice if to have links to the AIC's website's extensive content on many of the tour's pieces.

I need to counter these negative reviews. The app worked great! Easy to use, informative, and a complete substitute for the rented audio device. I used it all day (6 + hours) in a full range of exhibits. No problems anywhere.. Maybe the headphones didn't work; I don't know -- didn't try those. But I don't think that putting a smart phone up to your ear is a huge problem. BTW, I also saw many other people using the app on their phones.

What's new

- Bug fixes
- Dependency updation