Augmented reality in the exhibition practices of modern museums and galleries
More space for your creative work, interesting things and education in a form that is attractive to visitors.
Less worry about exhibition production and installation.
No interference with the physical appearance of the installations.
Augmented reality broadens horizons
We help museums, galleries and other exhibition institutions to use the technological possibilities of today in their exhibition practice. We develop an augmented reality (AR) application that gives institutions new opportunities to fulfill their mission in an interactive and attractive way in a way that meets
the way of receiving and processing information that people are accustomed to today.
A visit to a museum or gallery thus turns into an experience that fulfills Comenius' principle of "school through play".
What can AR bring to your exhibitions?
Beyond labels and panels
There is always more interesting information and materials than can reasonably be placed in a physical space. AR offers a way to overcome these limits in a non-intrusive, interactive way, and based on the individual interests of visitors.
And of course, in as many language variations as you need.
Part of the story
The mobile device display becomes a personal information “panel” that visitors always have at hand, and they expand the story being told themselves.
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information can be related to both the entire exhibit and its individual, specific details
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contexts can be told through multimedia – text, images, audio, video or interactive animations supporting the educational function
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information can form a network of links interconnected in multiple directions, creating context and helping to understand the overall context
More paths, more exhibitions
The physical installation of an exhibition always inevitably results in the choice of a single dramaturgical-curatorial concept.
AR allows the creation of secondary lines, which allow you to create a map of additional plans within the physically implemented installation plan.
Different paths and concepts
Visitors with the app will receive navigation with a selected route between the exhibits
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Within the diverse whole of one installation, multiple thematic areas can be created and space can be given to diverse contexts without the need for physical adjustments.
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With appropriate content, routes can be created for individual groups of visitors – e.g. a children's circuit, a special circuit for educational programs, etc.
Animated exhibits
Suitable exhibits can be brought to life using 3D technology.
Manipulating models in 3D
Thanks to 3D models, it is possible to interactively explore otherwise inaccessible aspects of exhibits. For example, they allow you to:
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manipulate, turn them, disassemble them into individual parts
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show them from the inside, in their original environment, or conversely transfer them between environments
The attractive form of 3D models naturally extends the educational function with a layer of playful fun from discovery.
A highly qualified expert
The application can fully replace classic audio guides.
However, it offers a number of advantages over them.
Representation of the Audio Guide
Visitors do not need to be given any devices or instructed on how to use them.
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They simply need to have the app downloaded, where everything is explained clearly and intuitively.
The visitor can personalize the audio track for each exhibit
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speed it up or slow it down
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skip certain sections or listen to additional information about specific details of the exhibit or its context
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choose a special commentary for children.
The audio guide in the app can also include accessibility features, such as
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adjustable or enhanced volume options for people who are hard of hearing
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audio descriptions of exhibits for visitors who are blind or visually impaired.
An experience worth returning to
The application allows you to deepen and enrich the visitor experience, but does not enforce its use.
Thanks to the virtual catalogue , which all visitors take away from the exhibition in the app, they can return to the information at any time. This means that they can spend as much time with the content as they want during their visit, with the certainty that
that they will not lose anything.
Thanks to the ability to share on social networks directly from the catalog in the application, the chance of reaching other potential visitors is significantly increased through effortless and free promotion of the institution, which is authentic and conducted through the personal accounts of satisfied visitors.
Through mutual communication, you can build a long-term relationship with your visitors. The push notification system allows you to stay in touch with your visitors even after they leave your institution. This way, you can inform each of your visitors who has downloaded or used ARmage about new exhibitions, accompanying events, published publications or other news in a more effective and direct way than a classic newsletter.
With the information you get about your visitors thanks to ARmage, you will develop your relationship with your audience much more effectively. You will know who likes to come back to you and when. But also, for example, how much time visitors spend with you and what interests them most.
A visit is just the beginning
With the application, visitors will not only experience the experience but also take home their own "virtual" catalog, to which it is possible to return.
A visit is just the beginning
Visitors may not necessarily want to devote their time to the curatorial content, connections, and interesting facts about individual exhibits during their visit.
With ARmage, they have the certainty of having it with them in the form of an individual catalog, and can thus be in direct dialogue only with the exhibits and the exhibition as a whole.
They can return to the information in the application whenever and wherever they feel like it and have the time - on long winter evenings, on the tram to work or on the plane home.
The scope and coherence of the content in an individual catalog is then determined only by their interest and your possibilities and goals. From a simple memory of an interesting experience to a dive into the well-founded depths of a research interest.
The beginning of a beautiful friendship
Push notifications with invitations to other interesting exhibitions,
openings and accompanying program events.
The beginning of a beautiful friendship
A push notification system allows you to inform visitors with the app installed about new exhibitions, publications or other events in a more effective and direct way than a classic newsletter. You can reach both existing and completely new ones.
You can easily create push notifications yourself in the web manager with your own texts, images, and most importantly, with the necessary links to the parts of your website where you want to bring the visitor - whether it's additional information or purchasing tickets.
The common denominator of different experiences
Thanks to modern technologies, ARmage brings richer and higher-quality experiences from exhibitions. And it fulfills this goal not only with its content, but also embodies it in the principles of its technical solution. Both in terms of the experience and comfort of visitors, and for the practical functioning of institutions.
It offers visitors
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one application for visiting all participating institutions
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intuitive control
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high level of individualization
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higher accessibility
It brings to institutions
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more space for their professional work
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fewer production concerns with physical installation
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flexibility in changing and adding content
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reduction of costs and administrative burden