Find the sign
A black-and-white square with the letter i hangs next to the object: a painting in a museum, a townhouse gate, a tree in the park. The address vernissio.com is always printed below it.
Stop 1 of 7 · Entrance
Placesthat speak.
A free audio guide to museums, monuments and Kraków. Scan the sign next to a painting, a gate or a townhouse and listen to its story. In your own headphones, in your language. You start with the full story and switch the narration as you go.
Coming soon toApp StoreComing soon toGoogle Play
The app is free
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Stop 2 of 7 · How it works
Sign. Scan. Story.
It works with the app and without it. An ordinary phone camera opens a short version of the story in the browser.
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vernissio.com · The Cloth Hall
Curator0:12
Scan it
In the app, just point your phone at the sign, even from a few metres away. An ordinary camera reads it too and opens a short version in the browser.
Listen
The story starts straight away, with the sound of the place behind it. Your phone goes back in your pocket and you look at what you are hearing about.
What the app looks like
Screenshots from the iPhone test build, in Polish.
Stop 3 of 7 · Many voices
One place.
Many voices.
The same object can be told by a curator, a character from the period or an archive source. Hear the Cloth Hall in 1870 told in three ways.
Who is telling
“This is how the Cloth Hall looked before the city tidied up the Market Square. The stalls and buildings stuck onto it were pulled down in the eighteen-seventies. Krieger photographed them just in time.”
The full story and five other ways to listen
Full story
Start without choosing: the best of everything, with the sound of the place. Switch the narration as you go, with one tap.
Guide
Facts and “look at…”. One voice, short and to the point.
Drama
Scenes and characters from the period, always based on sources.
Family
“Find the…” tasks for children and questions for the parent to ask out loud.
From the sources
Quotes from documents: how we know it and what historians argue about.
Quiet
Few words, a lot of looking. A stop to rest.
SoonThe same stop in 10 languages
A sample: tap a flag and listen. In the app Polish comes first, more languages soon.
Stop 4 of 7 · Everywhere
Museum, gate, street, river.
A sign can go wherever there is something to tell. One app takes you through all of these places.
On site
Museums and exhibitions
A story next to every object, in every language, with no audio guides to hand out.
Example: The Kriegers' Kraków, 9 stopsOn site
Monuments and architecture
Gate, portal, façade. The building tells you where to look and what has changed.
Example: Wawel as a barracks, 1870Route
City and walks
A route through the district, stop by stop, with a map and short links on the way.
Example: Kazimierz from the eastPeriod scene
Period scenes
Conversations reconstructed from sources, in the places where they might have happened.
Example: At the barber's, 1881On the trail
By the river and in the park
Stops on the trail play without signal too, from a pack downloaded beforehand.
Example: The Vistula below Wawel, 1900From home
Digital exhibitions
A whole exhibition at home, with the route and the sound, when you cannot get there.
Example: The Raftsmen, down the Vistula to GdańskStop 5 of 7 · One app
A hundred museums, a hundred apps, a pile of audio guides. Or one.
Today
- A separate app for every place, downloaded for a single visit.
- A rented audio guide: a queue, a deposit, crackling and headphones used by the previous visitor.
- Many apps and devices have not been updated for years, because upkeep costs money.
With Vernissio
- One app for museums, exhibitions, monuments and the city.
- Your phone and your headphones. Nothing to rent or clean.
- We keep developing it, and new features reach every place straight away.
- The museum pays a subscription instead of maintaining an app and hardware.
Stop 6 of 7 · Who it is for
For everyone with something to tell.
Museums, galleries, artists, photographers, cities and guides get a ready-made tool: printable signs, recordings made with AI under human control, many languages and paths. Without building an app of their own.
An exhibition in every visitor's phone
No app of your own and no audio guide desk. Visitors listen on their own headphones and the museum pays a subscription.
For museums
Every exhibit has a voice
A temporary exhibition, a collection, a trade fair, a classic car show. A sign next to the object instead of panels in three languages.
For exhibitionsTalk to every guest
At an opening you cannot reach everyone. Your voice can: say what you wanted to convey and what you felt while making it. Every visitor's reading matters, but they may want to hear yours too.
For artistsLook at the photo, not the caption
The description plays in your headphones and your eyes stay on the print. You turn to the text when you have time to sink into the image.
For photographersA city that guides itself
Routes are made by residents, guides and custodians chosen by the city. Tourists listen in their own language and stay longer.
For cities
A building tells its own story
Who built it, what survived, which detail to look at. For building managers, parishes and architecture practices.
For heritage sites
Your story plays when you are not guiding
A guide, a collector, someone who loves their neighbourhood. Record your route once and tourists listen to it every day, in their own language.
For guidesStop 7 of 7 · Exit
Coming soon to your phone.
Free.
The full stories, the sound of each place, every voice and path are in the app. This site shows only a taste. Vernissio is coming to the App Store and Google Play, free.
FreeWorks offlinePhone in your pocketiPhone · Android later
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Open this page
on your phone
on your phone
Have the test version? Scan any Vernissio sign.