British Museum Audio - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

Start your visit early, make the most of your time at the Museum and explore the diverse collection from the comfort of your own home.

Bring your headphones with you or purchase earbuds from the Guide Desk and British Museum Shop.

The British Museum app features:
• Expert commentaries on over 250 highlight objects from the collection
• 65 gallery introductions available for free
• Audio, video, text and images provide in-depth information
• Self-guided tours for exploring the Museum, from ancient Egypt to Medieval Europe
• A space where you can add objects to favourites
• Practical visiting information, including a new interactive map, to help you prepare for your visit and find your way around the Museum.

Prices (in-app purchases)
Full bundle per language £4.99
Themed tour per language £1.99–£2.99

How to use this app

Take a self-guided tour
Choose from one of the self-guided tours which each explore a theme – from Top Ten to ancient Egypt. Each tour has an audio introduction, providing background information and context, before guiding you around the Museum.

Explore the collection
View some of the British Museum’s most popular objects at a glance. Browse pictures of all the objects in the Audio app by culture and theme – and see how the collection is displayed within the galleries – then decide what you want to explore.

Dive deeper
Listen to a diverse selection of commentaries featured in the Audio app. Using the latest research, they provide new insights into the British Museum collection.

Languages
Enjoy expert commentaries from curators in nine languages – English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and British Sign Language.

Look for audio guide symbol
The Audio app covers 250 objects in the permanent galleries – when you see the audio guide symbol on cases or next to objects, enter the number using the keypad on the app for audio commentaries and other information.

Favourites
Create your own list of favourite British Museum objects by adding objects to the Favourites page as you explore the Museum on the app.

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In-Apps

Top 10

$1.99

Full Bundle

$6.39

Ancient Egypt

$2.99

Pack Completo

$6.39

前十位藏品

$2.99

The Enlightenment

$2.99

前往导览套餐

$6.39

A history of the world

$3.99

China's hidden century Chinese

$3.99

China's hidden century English

$3.99

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User Rating

4.48 out of 5

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Reviews

Does not work

Even if you pre-download all of the content this does not work in most galleries. Museum employee told us the Wi-Fi is poor throughout the museum. Don’t waste your time and money.

Horrible app

The app took forever to load and constantly malfunctioned. The wifi network dedicated to the app was down. It would be much better if the app allowed you to download the audio clips instead of trying to stream them inside the museum.

Audio cuts out or doesn’t play

We downloaded the top 10 audio track. Sometimes the audio plays but quickly stops playing. Then you can’t hear anything anymore. I have only been able to hear about 10% of the audio content. We are on the museum Wi-Fi. The content is not pre-buffered. The museum is packed today. So maybe on a quiet day, this app might work better.

This had so much potential. It’s a waste of data and time.

The paid tours are just random items it takes you too. No cohesion. Each of the features doesn’t provide any additional information than what is printed there already. Usually it provides less. I was hoping this would expand upon the experience of this museum, but it was very dissatisfying. Also the Musuem has slow wifi and bad cell coverage so things load slowly and then glitch because it doesn’t preload the audio and images before playing.

Can’t download inside Museum

This is a horrible app

Do not download!!!!

This is by far the worst app I have ever had the misfortune of downloading, the tours they have not only cost money but when you do buy them they are poorly made and not at all informative or interesting, they sound the like the tour for every boring museum ever! It is waste of time and space on your phone.

Poor audio tour

Very confusing audio your. Many items not currently on display. Disappointed

Terrible App

If you’re looking to find out anything about the collection, don’t waste your time with this app. There’s precious little information to be found and everything seems to be behind a paywall. Seems appropriate that a culture that stole artifacts from cultures around the world would stoop to a cheap money grab.

Worst museum app I’ve ever used

Purchased the tours package, took the 10 Highlights tour and I was confused as it doesn’t guide you where to go next. Had to leave the tour section to head to the map section and then restart from there. There’s poor reception in some areas of the museum and the tour would not run, not even using the museum’s free wifi. Very frustrating.

Did not work well

Downloaded and paid for the app before arriving. Connected to WiFi when I arrived and the app did not play anything! I think the cell service and the WiFi was too weak for the app to work, it was so frustrating! I used the map, but it would have been easier to use a paper map. This app had zero use for us!

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Category Rankings

Chart	Category	Rank
Top Free	United Kingdom Education	224
Top Free	Taiwan Education	237
Top Free	Spain Education	253
Top Free	Italy Education	294
Top Free	Denmark Education	303

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