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New app to tour Hoover Complex
News · December 01, 2016
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum introduced a new interactive experience to their space by providing visitors with a mobile tour app.
Built with technology provided by OnCell, a leader in the mobile tour space for museums, the app allows visitors to access educational content through their personal mobile devices.
Visitors can access the tour by downloading the app from the App Store or Google Play.
With over 57 tour stops, the app takes users through the life of Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States.
The app shares Hoover’s story from his birth to his travels across the globe, with his wife Lou Henry and family, his work through World War I, and his early political career that eventually led him to be our nation’s President from 1929 to 1933.
The app was created by the curatorial department at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum. Currently app users can see more than 100 unique images depicting Hoover, his family, and life in the early 20th century.
“Though the app was designed to enhance the visitor experience for our permanent exhibit at the museum, the app can by used by anyone who would like to learn more about Hoover, World War I, and the Great Depression,” Assistant Curator Melanie Wier said.
“The app features an extensive amount of history relating to the life, values, and times of Hoover, and includes some rather amazing archival photographs from our collection that can be appreciated by all,” she continued.
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Museum is one of 13 presidential library-museum’s that are operated by the National Archives and Records Administration. The Museum is located in West Branch, Iowa, 1/4 mile off Interstate 80 and open from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. daily.
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