Seems like the British got into QR codes:

 ”Manchester Art Gallery is trialling the technology, as part of its year-long Revealing Histories: Remembering Slavery gallery trail. It is displaying the codes next to six objects on the trail. Users are taken to a mobile web page with information specifically about that object….Furr-Barton expects QR code usage by UK consumers to grow rapidly over the next 18 months, because mobile handsets with integrated cameras and mobile internet are increasingly common and mobile internet download speeds are increasing, improving the overall usability of the technology.”

Found via the Pondering Primate