24/7 museum activity
Info about your exhibition rooms, building or history and all exhibition activities. Visitor information such as opening hours, ticket sales or directions.
24 hours and 7 days a week.
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Discover museum and exhibition worlds with VOICE
MUSEUMSBUDDY
Discover new museum and exhibition worlds with Voice
So what can the MUSEUMBUDDY do?
Your MUSEUMSBUDDY answers questions about the exhibits, opening hours, how to get to the exhibition rooms, ticket prices and much more information you can think of. Offer your customers access to your store via voice. The exhibition catalog for immediate purchase or the entry in your newsletter.
As a museum operator, you send – via your app – already interested information material, brochures by e-mail or a link to your museum store. The possibilities here are manifold. The user can control and decide all this only with his voice.
The interface is a voice assistant like Alexa offered by Amazon. Alexa works as an app on the cell phone or via Amazon’s “Echo” devices. The display of the Echo Show also transmits the images and graphics of your exhibition.
Is the Alexa-App barrier-free?
Barrier-free – Here we are at the main difference to the common audio guides in museums. These assume that the viewer is standing in front of the exhibit and can see. But what if the viewer is blind? The texts are mostly not meant to really describe what is to be seen. This is what we make possible with the MUSEUMSBUDDY.
The descriptions aim to be entertaining and convey what is depicted and the mood of the image in an appropriate complexity of language even to those who cannot see the exhibit.
This is truly barrier-free accessibility!
Is an Alexa App future-oriented?
Wie wird Alexa eingesetzt?
Voice assistants are on the rise. Voice assistants are on the rise. According to the ARD/ZDF Online Study 2020, 1/3 of Germans already use voice assistants, and the trend is rising sharply. Click here for the study.
One more thing: Do you still know “Knight Rider” from the 80s? David Hasselhoff talked to K.I.T.T.. It seemed impossible at the time, but today voice assistants have already arrived in cars.
Enjoy the MUSEUMSBUDDY in the car, too.
Ticket reservation and payment
facilitate your visitors and enable them to order tickets and pay online. Appointments are also possible.
Subsequent listening
Visitors who enjoyed your exhibition will want to remember the exhibits afterwards. Provide them with descriptions to listen to again and again!
Interactive listening experience
Your visitors are the main characters in your interactive museum. Offer them an interactive, exciting, never-before-heard experience.
Entertaining exhibit descriptions
barrier-free also for visually impaired people. They, too, want to share in the world of art. To get from ‘picture to picture’ with especially qualified dialogues and entertaining descriptions.
Direct contact
enable direct contact with you, straight from Museum Buddy.
Attractive marketing campaigns
Products from your store can be purchased immediately. This can be the museum catalog or gift vouchers that are immediately delivered via email. Use the Museum Buddy to increase the reach of your newsletter and get new leads.
New exhibitions and themes
Offer new exhibitions that can be released after payment via Amazon Pay.
Modular system
- Exhibit descriptions only
- Creation of exhibit descriptions that are read out in the skill. The price is scaled according to the number of exhibits. Include in skill and can be called up at any time.
- Publication included.
- Support for at least one year
Optional: marketing concept
- Additional information about the museum
- In addition to the creation of exhibit descriptions: Creation of texts for opening hours, directions and ticket prices. Include in skill and can be called up at any time.
- Publication included.
- Support for at least one year
Optional: marketing concept
- Additionally ticket bookings and more
- In addition, the possibility to book tickets directly, sending of information material by e-mail, sending of links, etc.
- Publication included.
- Support for at least one year
Optional: marketing concept
Frequently asked questions
Who is behind the MUSEUMSBUDDY?
The Museum Buddy is a joint development of Christian A.J. Rauchenecker (Media Regional), Gisela Rettig (Gisela Rettig Marketing)with support from Vera Steitz (International Voice Technology Institute), who develop and market applications for voice assistants.
Are applications for voice assistants worthwhile?
Nothing is more natural than speech. Voice assistants are on the rise and can not be stopped. While cell phones were still uncommon in the 90s, almost everyone has one today. That’s how the business experts see it today for the use of ‘voice’ with voice assistants.
Is it difficult to operate voice assistants?
Simple answer: just talk to the voice assistant. The Google Assistant or the Alexa app also work on cell phones. Try them out and see how well these apps understand you, support you and allow you to open up new worlds.
Do visually handicapped people use voice assistants?
A clear “YES” Even visually handicapped people own cell phones and control them with their voice. These devices were among the first to make this possible. From the beginning, accessibility was a focus of the manufacturers.
MUSEUMSBUDDY
With the “Alexa Quick Link” to the MUSEUMBUDDY:
