The White House Experience Mobile App
The “White House Experience” mobile app brings First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s vision of an accessible White House to the modern age.
Gallery
-
The app offers tours of the White House, explores topics related to its history, and includes interactive features.
White House Historical Association -
The virtual tour in the app takes users through the entire White House and its history, highlighting the fine arts collection and showing app users all the famous rooms inside the Executive Mansion.
White House Historical Association -
The Presidential Look-Alike feature uses Amazon Rekogition technology to match user's selfies with the presidential and first lady portraits in the White House Collection to determine which president or first lady they most closely resemble.
White House Historical Association -
With “Fly Like Ike,” users can pilot the presidential helicopter around a virtual Washington D.C. and learn about historic sites, thanks to Amazon Sumerian technology. The interactive feature requires Wi-Fi or a data plan, and is compatible with iPhone 7 and up and devices running Android version 7.0 and up.
White House Historical Association
For the first time ever, users can virtually tour the White House and the surrounding President’s Neighborhood, with their iOS and Android smartphones. Through the app, users can also take A Closer Look at objects, traditions, and behind-the-scenes work in the White House. The app also includes interactive elements such as a Presidential Look-Alike selfie-matching feature, and Fly Like Ike, which celebrates President Eisenhower’s legacy by giving users a chance to pilot the presidential helicopter around Washington, D.C.
Leveraging the content of the Digital Library, the White House Historical Association launched the first mobile experience of the White House in 2018. The app is part of an ongoing agreement with Amazon Web Services to assist the Association in promoting its educational mission through the use of cutting-edge digital technology. The app is run on the digital platform Cuseum with support from Amazon Web Services.
The White House Historical Association thanks the White House, National Park Service and the United States Secret Service for their continuing support of the White House Experience app.
Download it today on your mobile device and don't miss our latest content:
About the Digital Library
With Support from Amazon Web Services