Connects: Arts+Culture

Bloomberg Connects

About this app

With the free Bloomberg Connects app, explore interactive guides to over 1000 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 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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Ratings and reviews

bad navigation, needs more fluid transitions from entry to entry. Specifically: it feels like the developers have never used it to actually move through an exhibit. At every documented piece, the user must enter a multi digit code or pan/click a drawing of the facility. Click play. Go back to the previous screen and hop around within the app. It would be easier if you just had field to enter the number and it just plays the audio, then let's you enter another number without opening more screens.

I was baffled when I first used the app. I live in Norwich and none of the art and culture was listed barring the Radar Museum. However I understand you are trying to add more all the time. I will email and ask you to include more local art and museums so that all may find them. The app otherwise looks good and may prove useful on holidays and short trips.

It seems like a decent amount of information on sites to see in NYC and part of the UK, but many parts of the US the number of cultural sites suggested seems disappointing. Even rather large cities like Los Angeles there aren't a ton of suggestions and most are rather notable museums that any travel guide would likely mention. Even many large cities in Europe where there are no shortage of museums and cultural sites there isn't much so question how useful this is outside of NYC.

What’s new

Performance and usability improvements