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CUSTOMIZED MUSEUM APP

Other than expecting people to use web browsers, type URLs and spend a lot of extra time, it is far better to carry the museum in everyone’s pocket. We are talking about customized museum apps.

Other than expecting people to use web browsers, type URLs and spend a lot of extra time, it is far better to carry the museum in everyone’s pocket. We are talking about customized museum apps. These are far better than mobile optimized websites. These apps are faster as well. Once a person logs on to the website of a certain museum, he or she can learn about it. But once he has logged off, he cannot get notified about any activity which he might be interested in. but in case he has downloaded these apps, he can updated about everything from the museum community. All the videos, slideshows, audios related to artifacts of the respective museums. All the information regarding relics is given in the apps. Anybody can log into the apps by their Facebook or Twitter account as well as share the information in social sites. A person can even get notified according to their queries on any topic regarding the museum. Suitable solutions and answers are given to the app-holder as push notifications.

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Customized museum apps are beneficial for the museums as well. The museums can notify visitors about their exhibitions or any other events. Visitor counts in these places are also increased because people get more aware of what event is going on. People also get more information regarding these places and in turn this tends to increase their interest in museums. Adding videos and audios of upcoming events are also possible. The visitors can get an idea about what they can actually see there in the museums. Some people become members of the welfare society of various museums and also help in fundraising etc. In this case, the museums get benefitted financially as well. Moreover, the museum authority remains hassle free regarding printing of brochures, membership cards, maps etc. The app itself serves all these purposes. Also for the assistance of the visitors, the apps are made multilingual. This means the visitors can read the pages in the language in which they are comfortable. Any content in the apps can be updated or deleted very easily and according to the needs of the authority. Using these apps, the authority can provide all the necessary information through personal messages.

On the other people always love to have every information on their fingertips. Flicking through a customized museum app is much easier and less time consuming than dealing with a website. The response is as fast as possible. The company taking responsibility of creating the app will put in everything that the museum community may want in their app. Gallery items can be put in by the museum admins by means of admins portal admittance. Everything regarding the museums can be updated in these apps and data can be edited from time to time. These apps run all the platforms like windows, iOS, android, etc. it doesn’t matter whether one is using a mobile phone or a tablet or an iPad. Well the news about the museums can be definitely expanded through these apps.

MUSEUM APP DEVELOPMENT WITH CMS

Museum app development with CMS deals with developing several mobile apps or open-source browsers or other such things by the consortiums of certain museums.

Museum app development with CMS deals with developing several mobile apps or open-source browsers or other such things by the consortiums of certain museums. Museums are being made mobile with the help of many companies all over the globe. And all these are done with the help of CMS (content management system). CMS is being used to be able to manage and improve the content of a website. CMS is comprised of two parts, namely: CMA (content management application) and CDA (content delivery application). CMA helps the author or content manager to handle the modification, removal or creation of content without the help of a webmaster even if he does not know Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). CDA, on the other hand helps to modernize the website.

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Museum App Development

In modern times, if there is one thing that comes to mind first as the jaw dropping platform that has solely changed the whole essence of museum experience for museum lovers throughout the world, it is nothing other than today’s social applications or apps and their progress through the smart phone network.

In modern times, if there is one thing that comes to mind first as the jaw dropping platform that has solely changed the whole essence of museum experience for museum lovers throughout the world, it is nothing other than today’s social applications or apps and their progress through the smart phone network. However awkward it might sound at first, it is absolutely no secret that mobile applications through the scope of its advanced technology, have contributed to the development of museums since 1952, when for the very first time, an audio tour was provided at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

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Various kinds of museum development applications have been introduced by museums in ample quantities since the audio tour was first introduced in the history of museum development. Podcasts are the most significant mobile media that that have been published as a reading content. Other than that, many other downloadable media content has been provided by the museums for the public eye and knowledge, such as PDFS and E-Books. More than thousands of museums across the globe have taken the initiative to supply such downloadable content through various applications that can be either purchased or also downloaded free-of-charge from the web.

For the sake of convenience, nowadays museum guides always seem to posses a museum app that enables them to effectively guide the tourists and the visitors. Almost each and every museum visitor has mobile tour technology up their sleeves. This helps a museum guide to entertain them with essential information regarding the history, statistics and culture of the museum. Almost all the museum development applications that are found on the web provide a visitor with multimedia tours that they can access from any kind of smart phone. Hence, it reduces the dilemma of a guide and adds to unquestionable experience.

Various Museum Development Apps consist of interactive maps that enable the museum guides to help the visitors to find the latter’s interested exhibits. Moreover, it often happens that the visitors tend to get lost or mix up the entry and exit routes; even under such circumstances, the presence of interactive maps provides the guide with an immediate solution that is not only effective but also an embodiment of personal satisfaction. In fact, the presence of proximity beacons in such museum development apps allows the guide to offer an interactive environment to the visitors, thus offering some sort of location awareness.

The most interesting feature about these Museum Development Apps is that they are updated on a regular basis, which means any sort of change that has taken place in the museum overnight happens to be the reason for such regular updates. As a result, if there is any sort of movement undergone by any exhibit in the museum, that change in environment is effected to the application in just a few moments. What is even more interesting is that most of these Museum Development Apps perform with accessibility features, for the sole priority of the visually and hearing disabled people.

Museum Association Annual Conference, Birmingham UK

MuseumAnywhere team is looking forward to exhibiting at Museum Association Annual Conference and Exhibition Nov 5 and 6 in Birmingham, UK. Visit us in Booth# 33 in the main exhibition hall.

MuseumAnywhere team is looking forward to exhibiting at Museum Association Annual Conference and Exhibition Nov 5 and 6 in Birmingham, UK. Visit us in Booth# 33 in the main exhibition hall.

Can Smartphone Apps Increase Museum Visitors?

Museums inspire a world of endless learning. With the use of specifically tailored and fashioned museum apps on a visitors smartphone or tablet, the learning does not need to end when they walk out of the door.

Museums inspire a world of endless learning. With the use of specifically tailored and fashioned museum apps on a visitors smartphone or tablet, the learning does not need to end when they walk out of the door. The museum experience can be taken with visitors wherever they go, and with the use of an app they can also receive the latest updates about new exhibits, upcoming special events or even discounts and great offers exclusive for app users; which is a great incentive to get them to continually have the app installed.

The primary aspect of a truly memorable and enjoyable museum experience is about allowing visitors to engage and interact with exhibits. Mobile app technology specifically fashioned to provide museum content can aid visitors to think in new ways and allow them to engage with different perspectives that they may not have originally had access to at the physical exhibit. Nevertheless, it is fundamental that museum mobile apps should also be able to meet the users needs for the app to be easy to use and provide intuitive interaction, both in and out of the museum.

  • Interaction with a museum through the use of an app and iBeacon technology. Mobile phone interactiveness, when done well, can engage museum visitors in prolonged and active learning experiences of incredible depth and duration that can continue way beyond the walls of the museum and even into the visitor’s own home, which they may begin to share the museums content and app with friends and family members. To achieve full interactiveness from museum visitors an app has to be linked to the exhibition’s content and can also be linked to the museums physical environment through iBeacons. The aspect of an interactive exhibit can encourage visitors to play and learn.
  • Trivia is a great way to keep visitors involved. When it comes to gamification, trivia style interaction is incredibly popular. But with any museum trivia, they need to be easy and friendly to use and should include plenty of interesting information. Trivia needs to be fun first, with education coming second. This will ensure that the visitor is kept entertained and involved.
  • An affordable and easy solution to keep museums connected with their visitors. With an app from MuseumAnywhere Museum app museums can expect to receive a app they can buy or with a monthly subscription. Once the museum specific content is loaded and placed on the AppStore and PlayStore, it is entirely free for the visitors to download and use.

With the use of an app tailored with museums in mind, visitors can simply ?favorite? any particular exhibitions that they found useful or enjoyed the most. Museums can also advertise their services, offers, exhibitions, features and much more through Museum app, which means while visitors are at home, or on their daily commute to work, museums can simply send updates with the latest events, news, offers and information directly to them.

Get through to museum visitors no matter the language. No matter where a museum visitor is from, language is no longer a problem or barrier. Museum app from InfiCare Technologies offers language modules in Spanish French and other languages so App user can easily switch from one language to other. This is far easier for foreign visitors and those comfortable with other languages to understand and learn more clearly and effortlessly.

With push notification and announcements of new events, exhibits, membership drives a smartphone Museum app builds the connection with visitors and coming back with friends and family.

About Author:

Sumer Mathur is President of InfiCare Technologies in Dulles VA. MuseumAnywhere division focuses solely on museum Apps and cool products for museums. Museum app is available for iphones, ipads, andoid phones and tablets.