Every day I feel more and more behind the times, because I don't own and have never owned a smartphone of any kind. Nevertheless, I've been working on a proposal for a smartphone application for a major art gallery as my final project for a class I'm taking in Johns Hopkins' Museum Studies MA program. Even though it makes me feel even more out of touch, it's nice to see that other institutions have already implemented similar applications, like the National Gallery's Love Art iPhone app.
It's also interesting that museum applications are becoming pretty mainstream. It seems like these applications are both appealing and expected. From outside the museum blogosphere, GeekSugar featured the MoMA's iPhone app as their download of the day yesterday. And from the perspective of museums, CFM interviewed a 5-year-old "museum director" who says that "of course there will be" iPods and iPads in art museums of the future. Of course!
