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Smithsonian Mobile is your digital mobile guide to the Smithsonian. Find out what’s on where, discover highlights, search our collections, access tours, podcasts, and other apps. Add tips and photos from your visit for other visitors.

Find more of our apps below.

Air & Space Magazine

The Air & Space app for iPad includes all editorial content and photos from the current print issue, plus video, audio and expandable features.
Aquation: The Freshwater Access Game

From the Smithsonian Science Education Center, a single player can look at data and the distribution of fresh water in light of world events and equity.
Artists in Dialogue 2

Tour the second installement in the African Art Museum's "Artists in Dialogue" series.
Bumper Ducks

These ducks need your help! Help them reach tasty treats across the pond.
Chandra X-ray Observatory App

From exploding stars to black holes to clusters of galaxies, explore recent observatory science highlights with this app.
Community of Gardens App

The Smithsonian’s home for exploring and collecting stories about gardens and the gardeners who make them grow.
Connecting the Gems

Explore the rich history of communities surrounding the Indian Ocean.
Disaster Detector

Help Smithsonville and other cities predict and prepare for natural disasters.
Fishes: East Pacific

A shore-fish fauna identification guide for the Tropical Eastern Pacific from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
Fishes: Greater Caribbean

A shore-fish fauna identification guide for the Caribbean from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
Freer Thinking

Audio journeys through the vast Asian collections of the Freer|Sackler, by theme or your location
GO FLIGHT: National Air and Space Museum

Connect with the stories and artifacts of the world's largest aviation and spaceflight collection.
Hirshhorn Eye

Our instant art guide uses image recognition to let you hear directly from the artists when visiting.
Infinity of Nations

Bilingual guide (English & Spanish) to the exhibition from the National Museum of the American Indian.
Manuscripts from the Islamic World

Turn the pages of three sacred texts from varied places and times, for iPad.
Morphy!

Help Morphy locate missing crewmembers so that they can repair their spaceship. For iPad.
NMAAHC Mobile Stories

Features highlighted objects from our collection, multimedia and augmented reality features to enhance your museum experience, and all new stories.
Pilot Pals iPad app

Introduces early learners, ages 4 to 6, to basic concepts about weather, parts of the airplane, rockets, sizes, shapes, and patterns.
Ripped Apart: A Civil War Mystery

Be a Smithsonian intern: solve puzzles, find clues, decipher documents, and explore photographs.
Romare Bearden Black Odyssey Remixes

On iPad, create your own collage art by remixing the works of American artist Romare Bearden (1911–1988).
Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey

Create your own collage art based on the incredible works of American artist Romare Bearden (1911-1988).
Sacred Spaces: Tibetan Buddhist Shrines

A companion to the immersive experience of the Shrine Room at the Sackler Gallery, for use onsite or off.
Skin & Bones

See skeletons in a new way with 3-D graphics, games, video, and more!
Smithsonian Channel App

Stay connected with Smithsonian Channel’s original series, documentaries, and fun facts.
Smithsonian Eclipse 2017

On August 21, 2017 the Sun and moon were aligned, giving Americans a front row seat to a rare celestial event.
Smithsonian Mobile

Your mobile guide to visiting the Smithsonian. Discover what to see and do, search our collections, access podcasts and other apps.
Tami's Tower: Let's Think About Engineering

It’s lunch time and Tami is hungry! Help Tami reach the delicious fruit by building a tower.
The Space Shuttle Era

Air & Space magazine presents a celebration of the 30-year history with The Space Shuttle Era: Stories from 30 Years of Exploration, for iPad.
VR Hangar

The National Air and Space Museum uses 3D-scans to bring flight milestones to life, including the Wright Brothers' workshop, and the orbit and re-entry of the Apollo 11 Command Module.
WONDER 360

WONDER 360, uses VR technology to view site-specific, gallery-sized installations celebrating the Renwick Gallery.
Will To Adorn

This app for iPad is designed to collect your stories about the choices you make everyday when you dress for school, work, fun, or special occasions.

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