Museum On The Go, a multimedia museum portal that enables users to download images, audio and video from renowned museums, collections and archives to their mobile phones, recently dedicated a new section of its website to the leading collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum.

The V&A digital gallery comprises more than 100 images from a variety of periods and topics and is available for download to mobile devices in more than 50 countries worldwide. For the first time, 30 animated videos have been especially adapted to the small screens of mobile phones to show objects and fashion from the last century.

Utilizing new mediums of mobile communication, the collaboration between the V&A and Museum On The Go allows media savvy users to explore objects from one of the greatest museums of Art and Design from the palms of their hands. V&A asserts, “All our efforts are focused upon a central purpose - the increased use of our displays, collections and expertise as resources for learning, creativity and enjoyment by audiences within and beyond the United Kingdom.”

This portal could obviously be a nifty educational resource in classrooms laden with converged mobile devices—appealing not only to classes in the visual arts, but also to any course material that could benefit from some multimedia contextualization.

For more info. check out MobileChoice’s article on the recent collaboration.