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Isn't technology wonderful? You can still visit museum exhibits that are no longer on display.

Did you know that you can purchase an App for your phone that presents 22 works from the Quilts 1700-2010 exhibition which was on display in Spring of 2010?  Here is a description from the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Weaving audio commentaries, video clips and original interviews with stunning photography of quilts old and new, the App reveals the stories, fabrics and techniques involved in making the quilts on display. Listen to V&A curators, quilting experts and textile artists, including Grayson Perry, who share their insights, while zooming into high-resolution images for a detailed, stitch-by-stitch look at selected works.

The V&A has thrown open its archives to reveal historic textiles rarely or never before seen. Featured works include the ‘Rajah Quilt’, made by women convicts while being transported to present day Tasmania aboard HMS Rajah, ‘Patchwork with Garden of Eden’ by nineteenth-century quilter Ann West, as well as contemporary pieces such as the ‘Right to Life’ by Grayson Perry and ‘To Meet My Past’ by Tracey Emin.

This App also celebrates the work of those whose names have been forgotten, but whose colourful and creative stories now survive through their quilts. It presents the stories – along with patterns and pieces of cotton and silk, and you can discover how experts have pieced together histories from clues hidden in the layers of fabric.

Click here to order from iTunes. (Quilts 1700-2010: A close-up, stitch-by-stich look at British quilting)

And from here in American you can download "Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts" This app guides users through the installation of 650 red and white quilts which were on display at the American Folk Art Museum in New York during March of 2011.

It includes images of 650 quilts as well as statements by collector Joanna S. Rose, guest curator Elizabeth V. Warren, and Maria Ann Conelli and Stacy C. Hollander of the American Folk Art Museum.

Click here to order from iTunes.