Easy. Innovative.
Guiding redefined.
MuseumStars is the most comprehensive solution for digital mediation and guiding via app. Engaging and intuitive: enrich your visitor experience on-site and beyond. With a few clicks, your new app is created and available to visitors. Get the state of the art guiding solution in a cost-effective subscription model. Let’s redefine mediation.
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Multimedia guide as a personal companion
Digital mediation on the next level: be it free exploration or guided tours, the audio & multimedia guide via app is the perfect digital companion to discover multimedia content and explore the museum.
Numpad:
Classic number selection with a modern twist: a stylish design including a preview image.
Gallery view:
Exhibits can be displayed classically sorted or arranged by gallery space. Search function included.
QR codes:
Smart mediation: visitors can trigger content using QR codes.
Individual: a guide that suits you
Your logo, color scheme and other parameters can be customized in just a few minutes – and just like that, your new visitor service is available in your own corporate look. A guaranteed and easy way to ensure a professional digital presence.
Museum logo:
Your institution’s logo can be prominently placed on the home screen and in the top bar.
Highlight colors & dark mode:
Customize your guide, select highlight colors and choose between Light and Dark Mode.
Background image:
The first impression counts – with your own background image, you determine how it will look.
The right path: Site map & orientation
With an interactive map, your visitors can keep track of everything and easily find their way around. In addition to exhibits, important infrastructures such as barrier-free entrances, toilets or lifts can also be located on the map at the click of a button. This way, important visitor information is visible at a glance in the app.
Orientation:
Integrate the museum’s site plan. Interactive map with zoom & pinch functionality.
Exhibits & Infrastructure:
In addition to exhibition POIs, service facilities can also be marked.
Easy to create:
The map can be uploaded in the CMS and pins are added with one click.
Gamified education – playfully discover content
Quiz tours enrich the visitor experience and can reach new target groups. Interactive tasks motivate visitors to take a closer look at the exhibition. Use “remote challenges” to bring the museum to the kitchen table or to the park and reach your audience anywhere and anytime, even before the visit or afterwards.
Interactive quiz:
Different types of tasks are available (single & multiple choice, estimations, attribution tasks).
Playful learning:
App and exhibition together create a holistic comprehensive experience.
Reward system:
Motivation is increased by collecting points and leveling up.
User-friendly content management system
The app can be configured without tech knowledge in our web-based CMS. All content can be uploaded and easily managed by the museum team. An app simulator enables you to preview your app in the browser. Content changes are delivered to users in real time.
Manage content:
Simple and intuitive: You can create and edit your own content.
Design adjustments:
Logo, color scheme and other parameters can be easily set.
App simulator:
A live preview of the app can be viewed directly in the browser.
Add-ons
We offer additional services like content production and hardware. Your new app can be deployed and delivered on loan devices incl. charging stations and accessories. Our content production team delivers high quality audios, videos, scripts and storytelling, translations and accessible content.
Loan devices:
Hassle-free for visitors: provide the app on loan devices . Includes convenient charging technology, headphones, lanyards and more.
Audio texts & audio production:
All services for high quality content creation from text creation and translation to audio production.
Accessible content:
Sign language videos, easy-to-understand language content and audio description are available.
About MuseumStars
The MuseumStars platform was designed and developed by Vienna-based Fluxguide, an industry leader and specialist in museum apps and digital visitor experiences. For more than ten years, the agency has been designing customized apps and guides for museums worldwide, constantly setting new standards for design and technology. The result of these years of accumulated expertise is the MuseumStars platform as the most advanced mobile mediation experience for visitors, whether on-site at the museum or remote.
Fluxguide moderates the exchange of ideas and experiences among the MuseumStars community and serves as a catalyst for improvement and enhancement ideas from participating museums. The platform is improved in periodic release cycles. The community is involved by voting on the prioritization of further developments. This creates a living system whose innovations are developed from the midst of museum practice.