Museums are embracing new ways to drive more visitors and that is the reason why they have now become digital. We are talking about the
digital membership card by MuseumAnywhere that has helped many museums to get more closely connected to their members.

The membership card makes membership even more convenient as it let your members carry one less card in their wallet. Above that, most importantly museums will develop a close relationship with the members which couldn’t be made possible with the plastic membership card.

At MuseumAnywhere it’s our mission to help museums and cultural institutions accelerate member’s engagement through eMembership cards. Our solution will help the museums to further enhance the member experience. Don’t worry, it won’t change your membership process but our team has come up with this idea as an enhancement to the membership process.

Say Goodbye to the traditional method.

Your members are the valuable assets and museums should engage their members to receive benefits by being the member of your museums.

Traditionally, membership acquisition was being done manually which was very time-consuming and expensive. Museums had to face a lot of challenges which included burdensome tasks such as sign-ups and syncing membership information across databases and of course the outsourced mail-house or internal costs of printing, separating, stuffing envelopes, snail mailing, and labor cost.

That is why we are here to let you know that our eMembership solution for museums is specially meant to resolve the above-mentioned points. Along with this, it comes with a handful of benefits both for the museum and the members. Let’s discuss-

Save time and money-

Digital Membership card is smart and it knows what to do when the membership renewal date approaches. In the sense, it saves the time and cost of printing and shipping membership cards and renewal notifications by mail. But with membership card, there comes quick e-delivery once the membership card gets lapsed.

Drive more value-

With the help of membership card on your member’s smartphones, museums can easily send updates on the upcoming events and exhibitions. Also, you can send a customized greeting to your members on special occasions in the palm of a member’s hand through push notifications and location-based alerts. This personalized action will bring your members closer to you.

Ready to go digital?

Your members crave convenience so give them what they deserve with a host of benefits.

If you want to leverage the newer version of membership card, write to us at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630

So you want a mobile solution for your museum containing easy to understand content that will engage more visitors, right?

Simple, easy to understand content is an asset. Getting a customized museum app will help you to build a deeper relationship with your target audience. All the more, with the CMS portal included- you museums can easily add, update, activate, and deactivate the content when needed. Our team has covered some quick tips and basic guidelines that we follow for creating compelling and accessible content that gives amazing experience for your visitors. Let’s dive into the points:

We keep the audience in mind

Ultimately it’s the audience who are going to use it so it is super obvious to create the content by keeping them in mind. An experience that your audience can connect with it, for that it is important to know who the target audience is. This could be easily done by asking few simple questions to yourself.

• How about non-native English speakers?
• How about a multilingual app?
• Can we provide artifact related content accessibility to the audience?
• Will the app have social media integration?

Images/Video as a Compliment

We know and believe that the content in the mobile app is going to be your visitor’s digital companion in and outside the museum. The app developed by our experts consists of high-quality images, audio, and video which are intended to complement the visitor experience which keeps their attention on it rather than making them distracted.

Things we follow:

• Creating such content that increases visitor engagement and allows them to dig a little deeper into any information related to the artifact.
• Creating content that binds the visitor’s emotional chord so that they can relate to it.
• Avoiding lengthy or dense content that turns them off from your mobile app.

Integration of Social Media

These days, the use of Social Media has grown especially Facebook and Twitter, so why not integrate them into the app? So far we have developed a number of customized app for museums that helped the users share their favorite piece of information on Social Media which proved to be a great means of marketing tactic for the museums to drive more users and ultimately help in creating of brand awareness and brand promotion.

We hope this was helpful!

Our team has developed customized museum app which means, an app with features as suggested by our clients, but if are looking for features more than this then talk to us. Write to us at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630. We would love to assist you.

Because digital technologies can help museums and other cultural institutes provide the audience an exceptional and personalized experience.

In a world where maximum things are online, museums are too embracing the ways to display their museum collection online. A series of questions have been revolving all around in our mind- how people use museums now and how they will in the future or how museums can improvise the way they used to serve the community!

What we are going to discuss below is how museums are going online with their collection.

With the constantly evolving capabilities of museums for representing art and communicating with the audience, moving ahead with the technology has actually become the driving forces in how museums are adopting the changes. So we came with an amazing solution for museums wherein they can easily display the huge artifacts which are found to be difficult to display on the walls of the museums. The force of growing internet and social media demand has brought museums to put their efforts to create more interactive educational and exhibition programs. Perhaps this is to reshape the museum’s ways to display their art and sculptures to those who aren’t able to make it to museums. In the sense, they can sit at any part of the world and view your collection online.

Embrace new technologies to better understand your audience by creating a broader and more engaged audience base.

Collection Online can help museums to-

Know the visitor

For museums, the most important thing is to know the visitor’s base. By grabbing the interest of the visitor’s museums can offer a more educational and engaging experience by displaying the artifacts online.

Our solution comes with analytics which will allow you to collect visitor’s data analytics on artifacts that are Most Viewed, Most Shared, and Most Favorite etc. So now leverage the collected data for more effective and engaging content for your audience.

Educate the audience

The collection online can help you educate the audience by providing a detailed information related to the artifacts. They can view the categories of the collection and can save or mark as favorite which can later be used for their research work or for study purpose.

Summing up-

Technologies have created great opportunities for museums to display, track and get proper analytics. To implement the museum collection online, talk to our expert at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630.

Audio tours were common but have you thought how by harnessing the technology you can help your visitors experience an overall personalized tour by literally watching the artifacts moving or knowing the information related to history in a more enhanced way by watching a video!

We have developed rich, vibrant audio and video tours for museum’s clients that have helped them let the visitors access the tour from any smart mobile device. Whether you are looking for a simple audio video guided tour, an interactive customized museum app, don’t worry we are here. Our team makes it easier to create engaging, educational experiences for your visitors.

We all agree to the fact that videos leave a long-lasting impact on the minds of the visitors. Your audience is more into watching a video than listening to long audios. With us, say goodbye to the boring audio tours as our team will help you migrate those to an Audio/video platform. Doing so, it will help in making your visitor’s tour much more interesting and engaging for visitors.

You don’t have to buy or lease Audio Tour equipment! We do offer hardware for free. We will provide a multimedia tablet for free and custom design the tour that includes audio, video and detailed text combined with age-appropriate Fun Facts and Trivia! Isn’t that really exciting? Yes, it is.

Now you must be wondering how the audio and video tour guide may benefit you! The solution is designed not just by keeping the visitors in mind but also the museums. Come; let’s dive into the benefits that you can leverage-

Museums can gather valuable data

By this we mean the audio and video tour using tablet delivers you the valuable real-time analytics about your visitors i.e., what are the most areas covered by your visitors and which artifacts are most seen. In this way our solution lets you create museum visitor surveys for immediate feedback.

Cut Down on Tour Guides Equipment Expenses

Now you can cut down on the costs that you had to spend on audio equipment or say suppose tour guides. With our multimedia solution, we help you remove the burden of keeping museum audio and video tour equipment on hand by providing tablet tours. So museums, it’s time to take advantage of the technology that your visitors are already carrying.

To know more you or discuss how audio and video tour solution can be implemented in your museum, write at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630. We would love to assist you and answer all your queries.

Museums provide amazing opportunities to engage the visitors with history and culture and hence it is important for the museums to become accessible to the people of all age groups so that they can experience this history and culture whether physically or digitally.

With this thought in mind, our team set out to create a solution that can help museums to shift in the way they present their artifacts. There are people who really don’t find it easy to visit the museum as they have their own challenges. So why not with the help of Collection Online for Museums make your artifacts accessible to such audience who are willing to take your museum tour but because of certain reasons they fail to visit.

The solution helps museums to remove the barriers that stopped the aged or disabled people from visiting the museum. At MuseumAnywhere our goal is to provide experience and participation in the museum to all visitors. By removing barriers from displaying the artifacts on the walls of the museums we help you bring the collection online to your website or in the form of a mobile app.

We had to ask several questions to ourselves that how we can make a solution for the audience who could sit at the comfort of their home and enjoy watching the artifacts just with few clicks. What design will enhance their experience? Can the students utilize the information for their research work? Will they feel valued with our solution of bringing the collection online for them?

Coming up to the conclusion, our team has worked with museums in helping them make their museum collection easily accessible especially for the educators, students, and researchers. You must be wondering how it works!

The Collection Online solution already integrates with your TMS collection System and can also be quickly implemented on top of any other collection Management system. It allows a large number of artifacts to be available on your website wherein the user can choose categories, themes, artists or other criteria according to their own interest.

For museums, it was a bit difficult to collect the visitor data, but now you can easily get visual analytics on what the user has most viewed, most favorite and most shared on the Social Media.

Museums embracing the solution and if you have been looking for such solution then bringing your collection online would be the right choice you can make. There are few more exciting features associated with Collection Online for Museums that our museum clients are leveraging.

We hope this blog will help you and if you have any other queries, feel free to discuss it with our expert. Write at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630 and we would love to answer it!

To describe simply the answer – what are museums for would be to save, restore, educate.

We are writing on this to assist museums in knowing what better ways could be integrated into the museums to enhance the member engagement. Museums are not just places to store and exhibit art, or historical interest, they are where your audience and members make and recreate themselves, they develop a close relation as it binds them with the thoughts and takes them back to the historical era.

But how can museums bring innovation in member engagement have you ever given a thought to it?

MuseumAnywhere team has come with several questions regarding how museums expand their reach and continue to explore new ways to keep their members engaged by providing them a number of benefits which they deserve. The themes of the discussion are:

• What and who are museums for?
• How can museums switch from traditional to digital membership?

Serving the Community

Museums ensure understanding and appreciating of various arts and culture. They not only promote better understanding to the audience but also serve the entire community by providing collective heritage and curiosity among the audience. Furthermore, they serve the community to comprehend their history and recognize the achievements of those who were there before them.

With a number of audiences visiting your museum almost every day, museums have started to embrace the technology to bring the best to their audience and members.

For museums, it wasn’t possible to gather appropriate data on the visitors but this problem no longer exists within the museum. Beacon technology in the museum or iBeacon integration within the application can easily help the museum staff gathers analytics on where the visitor has spent most of their time in the museum.

This has proved to be the best way to enhance the visitor experience as it helps them to experience the self-guided tour.

Give your members what they deserve

One way museums can stand out different from others is by is by seeking and reacting to the opinions and desires of their members. Museums must understand their audience. So we have brought to you a smart solution in which not only your members but even museums can experience immense benefits.

eMembership Cards for Museum can do wonders for your museum. In the sense, it saves the cost on renewal reminders and other recurring costs which includes outsourced mail-house or internal costs of printing, mailing, supplies and staff time.

Your members don’t have to wait for another 2-3 weeks to get the renewed membership card. With automatic renewal reminder, your members will get notified 60 days prior to the expiration date or any preferred frequency by the museum. This would help them to click on the received link to get it renewed and with quick e-delivery; your members would receive it right on their palm.

Our eMembership card for museums has a lot more features, if you wish to grab it for your museum talk to our expert today!

Write at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630, we would love to work with you.

Have you ever thought how your visitors can enjoy the tour at museums? Or how about taking selfies in the museums?

The inbuilt selfie camera with the customized mobile app is taking the museums reach new heights. Your visitor can not only leverage benefits from mobile app but the selfie feature can help them take pictures within the app and share it directly on the walls of their social media accounts. This is an added advantage to the museums as they can simply promote their exhibitions. Isn’t it exciting?

The solution has helped our clients in spreading the museum artifacts on Social Media as well as experiencing a rise in visitor experience- which means amplifying one visit into many!

It is the most cost-effective way to reduce the amount of time spent on marketing. MuseumAnywhere has made the visit to the museum more exciting and fun for the audience.

You must be wondering now how this will work for your museum?

The time your visitor come into your museum, your mobile app makes it easy for them to click pictures along with art and paintings or taking selfie along with friends and family and then share their experience on Social Media accounts (Facebook, Twitter). This will help you to get noticed by their friends/followers and the traffic can be leveraged to increase sales or build awareness around an event or new exhibition.

Say bye to the traditional way of marketing and let Social Media do the work for you!

What other perks museums have with a customized app? We have discussed few features of a customized museum app that museums can leverage in benefits like never before.

IBEACON INTEGRATIONS ALREADY DONE

Well, this is one of the best features as it helps museums to enhance the visitor experience. In the sense iBeacon Technology can serve up most relevant content based on where the visitor is and which are the most visited areas. Visitors no more have to depend on the tour guides as beacons can help them experience a new way of self-guided tours with the help of museum app.

GAMIFICATION FEATURES TO ENGAGE VISITORS & USERS

What could be the most exciting way of engaging your audience that can match their level of interest? Keeping this in mind our mobile solution has gamification feature with interesting Trivia with a scratch-off feature to see the answers to any puzzle that they come across during their stay in the museum. By touching Puzzle icon below any exhibit turns it into Exhibit Picture Puzzles with the timer. Isn’t it cool?

These were some of the features, there come a lot of added features like push-notification that can keep your users updated about the upcoming events and exhibitions in the museums or museum staff can send a customized message. Not just this, but Live Directions with Google Map Integration within Museum App your visitor can know “Where is My Car Parked?” to quickly get back to the vehicle.

Don’t miss the opportunity to provide best to your visitors. If you want the solution for your museum, get in touch with our experts. To know more about customized museum app write to us at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630

Museums are amongst the most revered institutions all around the world. Whether it be an art, zoo or historical and cultural museum, all of them have been serving the community for years. Although some of the museums are the small and mid-size while some are really big. So here comes the challenge which the museums have been facing for a long time. What is that the level of expectations and the level of complexity that come along with large museum? Let’s discuss what these obstacles are-

Old vs. Young Generation-

We asked our clients regarding the same concern and we came across how because of different age groups, conveying a sense of inclusiveness becomes a bit difficult. These include animating and attracting the millennials while also assisting the older generations.

Too much to spend-

Being a museum owner you must be well aware of how much it is spent right from engaging the target audience or with the membership programs. So how about implementing a solution in your museum that can help you save recurring costs of outsourced mail-house or internal costs of printing, stuffing envelopes, mailing, supplies and staff time? Sounds great, right!

Technology

Living in the age where businesses are depended more on the technology, it’s high time that museums need to embrace technology as a vehicle for speaking or attracting the target audience without totally forgetting the old ways of presenting the artifacts.

Museums aren’t the same as they used to be twenty, ten or say suppose a few years back. Many museums have already embraced the technology and are doing excellent in serving the audience by meeting their desires. Let’s see how you too can adopt the technology and witness the wonders in your museum-

Technology has bridged the communication gap-

The essential of any museum is to be able to effectively communicate with its audience. If you have been facing the same issue, then here we are with a customized museum app that can help you stay connected with your audience. With an app, museums are able to better maintain the PR activity which was somewhat missing earlier or you can say museums used to miss out staying connected with some of the regular visitors. But now the problem has been resolved as the app has the push-notification feature that allows you to send regular or occasional updates to the users regarding any upcoming events or exhibitions. Displaying the artifacts in the app lets the user mark it as ‘favorite’ which they can share it on the Social Media (Facebook and Twitter) with their friends.

Let your visitor’s experience the personalized tour at museums!

Lets you Connect in the language of visitor-

Perhaps the most important thing you must be wishing for is to effectively and deeply connect with the multilingual audience. So here you go! Apps developed at MuseumAnywhere are ‘multilingual’ which lets the user experience the artifact in their desired language.

Membership program has now become digital-

Last but not the least; technology has made the membership program much convenient. A few years back we discussed it with some of the museums regarding the problems faced by the membership program. We came across, how the museum staffs used to find it difficult to manage the renewal of the membership cards or to remind the members of their card expiry. They had to spend hours on phone calls and other stuff.

But thanks to the technology… as it has made the tasks easier for our museum clients. We came up with ‘digital membership card’ solution for museums has automatic renewal reminder which starts notifying the members 60 days prior to the expiry. The frequency could also be customized by the museums.

So museums, let your member now carry their Membership Cards on their smartphone.

Museum Collection becomes easy to display!

Museum possesses more artifacts than they can present in their own galleries or in the exhibitions. So the mobile collection app is here to solve your problem wherein you can present your museum collection on the smartphones which makes it easier for you to share the images to your audience. Not just this but you can also get a proper analytics on what is marked favorite and shared on the Social Media by your audience.

There are a lot more features that we haven’t covered here. If you wish to know more or get the above solution implemented in your museum, then talk to our expert at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630.

Implement the best practices today and connect in the language of the visitor!

There are a lot of challenges faced by museums and other cultural institutions. One of the challenges that they come across is how they can share the information about the artifacts with audiences who speak a range of languages. Okay, translation assisted by tour guides is an option but are they able to meet the visitors’ expectations?

In this blog, we are going to discuss how museums face the challenge of reaching audiences that speak a range of languages. What is the best possible solution to it? We are here to facilitate an open discussion on how museums can prioritize creating and sharing their collection to multilingual audiences.

We asked our museum clients on what was actually troubling them, and they confronted, it is the time, money, the difficulty in determining audience wants and desires by ensuring the quality and consistency of the language translations by tour guides. Making use of technology in the museum helped them and it can help you as well to save a lot of money by leveraging immense visitor engagement and satisfaction. A customized museum app can do it all. Want to know how? Let’s start.

Who are the Multilingual Audiences?

Multilingual audiences are both local and global. In the sense, cities where the local population has multicultural families, museum can see a growing number of multilingual visitors. For such a case, developing a multilingual museum app would be a feasible solution both for such audiences and museums.

How can a multilingual app help museums?

The solution is meant to enrich the experience in a way that transcends the barriers of language. With an app your museum visitor can select their desired language and can experience a personalized audio/video tour related to the artifact. They no more have to depend on the tour guides who would share the detailed on the artifacts.

The app will allow your visitors to choose the artifact which they wish to know more about it. Also, they can mark it as favorite and share it on Social Media (Facebook and Twitter) with art lovers and friends.

Looking forward to a customized multilingual museum app?

For museums, the multilingual audiences will continue to evolve. It’s always good to bring change for a good cause that can help you capture the attention of a constant flow of audiences. Technology has a lot to offer that can help yield great results in engaging museum visitors. So why not embrace a customized museum app that would help not only your visitors but also solve the issues faced by the museum staffs.

To know more you can write at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630. We would love to assist you and answer all your queries.

Imagine your visitors experiencing the arts, painting, and sculptures in its original state and taking the tour by hearing the lions roar or dinosaurs nodding their head. That’s what is called creating magic in the real world for your visitors. Museum App Development with AR technology has made this tour for your visitors possible—and many museums are using it to their advantage as they are getting an opportunity to superimpose the virtual world over what’s there in front of your visitors. This is perhaps the best way to bring the exhibits and artifacts to a new life.

Museums constantly make an effort to explore different ways in which they can connect with their audience and in the sense, incorporating augmented reality experiences can only be the right choice.

Augmented Reality can be significant for museums in many ways, as it:

• provides the visitors a new platform for artistic experimentation
• is a perfect medium for museum innovation and collaboration
• generates enormous amounts of communication and interpretation

AR vitalizes the museum exhibits!

The idea of adding life to a static object in the real world with the sound effects and additional information added to the artifact will make the experience of your visitor at museum really fascinating. Visual content will have a lasting effect on the minds of your visitor which would compel them to visit your museum again and again while recommending it to others. This would help a museum to grow their audience as well as revenue. With an application, turn your visitors to experience all new personal guides that would provide textual stories and full detail of the artifact.

Whether we accept it or not but technology has become an inseparable part of every person’s life or businesses. It has become more like an essential thing and above all many have already started making their ways with the updated technologies. AR in the mobile apps will bring new opportunities for the museums as it creates an impact that is more optimized for what young people are looking for.

We have worked with museums to offer custom museum app that is engaging and accessible to visitor experiences by leveraging them tour with interactive 360-degree views.

You must be wondering about how AR could inspire the education or other cultural/social institution. If this is the case, then write to us at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630. We would love to hear from you!