Bringing mobiles into a museum is not something that only the 3 Inch Canvas does. There are a number of museums that are active in developing services aimed at mobile devices for their visitors.
Nancy Procter, head of New Media initiatives at the Smithsonian Institute, is running an informational site about museums and mobile over at museummobile.info. This looks like an invaluable site to anyone working with issues related to spreading and deepening the relationship between art institutions of all kinds and their audiences.
Especially the site’s wiki has a wealth of information.
Nancy has also posted some of her insights as a slideshare presentation, which you can see here. If you think mobile phones are just a high tech way to give visitors an audio tour without the museum having to invest in the hardware devices, think again ;-)!
And if you want to experience mobile devices in a real museum setting in Helsinki, don’t forget to check out the Asphalt and sunflowers photo exhibition. There you can sample a much larger set of photos by accessing Aapo Rista’s mobile gallery application on a Nokia 900 while comfortably seated.
The 3 Inch Canvas 