Culture meets Tinder: this museum wants you to swipe through exhibits

Perfect match! You and this centuries-old hand-washing artefact have hit it off. A museum in Germany is experimenting with a Tinder-style app. Photo: Uli Deck/dpa

It all began with a perfect match on the app. Then we got talking and things just clicked.

No, we're not talking about online dating, but a new kind of app for museum exhibits - albeit one with a slightly less romantic name: My Object.