Below you will find just some of the TAP based tours that museums are providing. If you have your own tour up and running, please share your experiences and screenshots on the mailing list.

• Balboa Park Online Collaborative
• Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
• Indianapolis Museum of Art
• Museum of Fine Arts Boston
• Winona State University

Balboa Park Online Collaborative

The BPOC shared their experience in creating a walking tour based on TAP in this blog post.

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag is a museum for modern and contemporary art, fashion, arts & crafts en even musical instruments. The museum's most prized asset however is the collection of works by Piet Mondrian, which is the biggest in the world, spanning his entire career.

We are using TAP as our new multimediatour system. We added a different multi-language option and cross-bundle search (which was later rendered superfluous because we opted for putting everything in a single bundle, but still). On the usability side we have tried to make everything as simple as possible: Changing around the Enter and Back buttons on the keypad and locking video in landscape mode. We found this important because the users of our toursystem are - on average - 55+ and allthough they have little problems with using the iPods, they are not familiar with some of its more subtle functions like the automatic portrait-landscape switch when tilting the device.

Indianapolis Museum of Art

Special Exhibition Tours

To date, the IMA has provided 4 different TAP-based tours for special exhibitions held at the museum. A fleet of 60 2nd generation iPod touches are available for rent by visitors. TAP and all the tour multimedia is preloaded on to the devices and experienced in the native TAP iOS application.

100 Acres

The IMA uses TAP to drive a mobile web tour of the 100 Acres Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park. Tour stops in TAP having a latitude and longitude are plotted on an OpenStreetMap. Visitors can touch any of the markers to be taken to a traditional TAP stop group.

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

It's more than just an audio guide. Through video, images and animation, the Museum's new multimedia guide puts experts at your side as you browse the galleries. Watch a video clip of how furniture is made or see an artist at work. Get perspectives from curators, conservators, and community members.

Read more: http://www.mfa.org/explore/multimedia-guide

Winona State University

Winona State has partnered with the Winona County Historical Society (WCHS) and Winona360.org to produce a mobile walking tour website. This project is intended to interface with a new exhibit being planned at the WCHS: “Identities in Brick & Stone”, highlighting several significant buildings in downtown Winona, MN. The mobile website utilizes new features in HTML5 (geolocation), to guide users on a walking tour of these locations. This has primarily been a student developed project that has been run with staff (me) and faculty oversight. We are using TAP to organize and present the content about these buildings to the user. I’ve attached several screenshots of the application that will show the workflow of the site.