Google Maps for Android has made wayfinding inside twenty-two U.S.A. museums a lot easier. With indoor maps and walking directions for U.S.A. museums now available on your Android phone or tablet, you can easily plan your route from exhibit to exhibit, identifying points of interest along the way, including between floors.
On Juy 10, Google added over twenty popular U.S.A. museums to their growing collection of over 10,000 indoor maps that they launched in November of 2011. The following 22 U.S.A. museums have been added:
- American Museum of Natural History
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Cincinnati Museum Center
- Freer Gallery of Art
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Indianapolis Museum of Art
- National Air and Space Museum, National Mall Building
- National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
- National Museum of African Art
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of the American Indian
- National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center
- National Museum of Natural History
- National Portrait Gallery
- National Postal Museum
- National Zoological Park
- Renwick Gallery
- S. Dillon Ripley Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Smithsonian Institution Building (“The Castle”)
- The deYoung Museum
May more museums will be adding their floor plans to Google Maps for Android soon, including the SFMOMA, The Phillips Collection, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.
If you happen to be interested in having your museum’s floor plan included in Google Maps, check out the Google Maps Floor Plans tool.
Click here for Google Indoor Maps availability.
Read more about it at the Google Offical Blog.
Thanks to ResearchBuzz for the Alert about this cool resource.
