For museums
Your exhibition on every visitor's phone.
No app of your own to build and no audio guide desk to run. Visitors listen on their own phones and headphones, in their own language. The museum pays a subscription for a service that works.
The Matejko Room in the Cloth Hall, c. 1900. Unknown author, National Museum in Kraków collection. Public domain.
Today
What does it cost today to tell the story of a collection?
Your own app
Building it is a one-off cost, but the upkeep comes back every year: new system versions, fixes, servers. Visitors have to find it and download it for a single visit, and then they delete it.
Rental audio guides
An expensive system and expensive servicing. The devices crackle, run flat and go missing. Headphones used by the previous visitor have to be cleaned, or you hand out disposable ones. On top of that, the queue, the deposit and staff at the ticket desk.
Panels and handouts
Wall space, printing in several languages and text that few people read to the end while standing in front of an object.
The best headphones are the ones visitors already have in their pocket.
Their own headphones mean hygiene, comfort and choice: in-ear, over-ear, noise-cancelling. The museum doesn't buy, charge, clean or repair any equipment. It pays a subscription and gets new features straight away, with no tender for an upgrade.
Ethnographic Museum in Kraków, 2024. Photo: Michał Bulsa, CC0.
How it works
How setting up works
We prepare the first exhibition together with you. Your team will put together the next ones itself once Vernissio Studio launches.
- 1
A conversation and choosing an exhibition
We pick one exhibition to start with, the languages and the storytelling styles: Guide, Family, Audio drama or From the sources.
- 2
The guide talks, AI puts it in order soon
A guide gives the tour as on any other day, with a phone in custodian mode. The recording becomes text, and AI shapes it into a narration in which every sentence can be traced back to the recording.
- 3
The curator approves every sentence
Nothing publishes itself. The exhibition's curator corrects the text, chooses the voices and listens to the whole thing before publishing.
- 4
You print the signs
Every object gets a sign with a code: a card from a printer or a durable 3D-printed tag, 15–20 cm.
- 5
A test in the gallery and publishing
The curator walks through the exhibition with the app, scans the signs and listens. Only then do they click “Publish”.
Vernissio Studio
Your exhibition in the browser.
Studio is where the museum team works: stops, texts, voices, languages, printable signs and publishing. Everyone has a role, and the curator has the last word.
Studio: soon Today we put your first exhibition together with you, in the same format, so nothing will need moving later.
- 1The Cloth Hall from the westApprovedPL · EN · ES
- 2The Main Market Square before the rebuildingIn reviewPL · EN
- 3The Town Hall TowerDraftPL
- 4Kazimierz from the eastApprovedPL · EN · ES
- 5The Old SynagogueChangesPL · EN
“This is how the Cloth Hall looked before the city tidied up the Market Square. The stalls and buildings stuck to it were pulled down in the 1870s. Krieger photographed them just in time.”
from the guide's recording, 03:12–03:20- Institution ownerCreates exhibitions, invites the team, manages the subscription.
- Exhibition curatorEdits, approves and publishes. Has the last word.
- EducatorBuilds family and school paths.
- Editor and translatorLooks after the language and checks the translations.
- GuideRecords tours in curator mode and sees what went into the narration.
What the museum gets
Languages
Polish first, English and more languages soon. Every visitor listens in their own.
soonPhone in the pocket
Live mode turns the screen off: the phone is only for scanning and eyes stay on the object.
The curator sets the sound
How much ambience, music and effects: from a quiet voice to a full audio drama, set for each exhibition.
Tours for different visitors
Guide, Audio drama, Family with activities, From the sources. The same object, different voices.
Accessibility
Audio description, captions and a reading mode without sound.
No internet needed
The exhibition downloads once and plays offline, even in cellars and underground spaces.
A page for every object
Anyone without the app can scan a sign with their camera and listen to a short version in the browser.
Listening counts
How many people listened to which object. No cookies and no tracking of visitors.
soonQuestions
Do visitors need headphones?
Own headphones are best. Without them a visitor can hold the phone to the ear or read the text. The loudspeaker in a gallery turns on only after a deliberate confirmation, so nobody disturbs others.
How much does it cost?
The museum pays a subscription that depends on the number of exhibitions and languages. The app is free for visitors. We agree the price in a conversation, starting with one exhibition.
Who is responsible for the content?
The exhibition's curator. Every narration needs their approval, and the person who wrote it cannot approve it themselves.
Do the AI voices sound natural?
Yes, and they are always labelled as AI. You can also use recordings of your own guides.
Do we need to install anything in the museum?
No. Printed signs next to the objects are enough. No beacons, chargers or servers.
The Kriegers' Kraków
9 stops, 4 voices, the sound of the place. A sample exhibition of photographs by Ignacy, Natan and Amalia Krieger.
Open the stop in your browserContact
Let's start with one exhibition.
Tell us a few words about your place and we will show you Vernissio on your own example.