Museum as Teaching Lab: Experiments in Inclusive Design

Where do art, tech and accessibility meet? Increasingly, in the museum. Recently, the Harvard Art Museum hosted “Museum as Teaching Lab: Experiments in Inclusive Design” – a discussion addressing how art museums can expand ideas of inclusive design and access as part of HUBweek 2016.

The Verb Hits the Right Note With New Mobile App

The Verb, a distinctive Boston hotel that pays homage to rock ‘n roll history, has recently increased the scope of its collection of memorabilia, “including show posters, set lists, rare artwork” and more! Debuting along with the fantastic souvenirs is The Verb’s new Cuseum-powered app to help visitors navigate this memorabilia flashback to the golden age of rock ‘n roll!

Parrish Art Museum’s New Mobile App Offers Tours on Art, Architecture, and the East End

We’re excited to welcome Parrish Art Museum to the Cuseum family with the launch of their new mobile app! The app will provide visitors with a variety of self-directed tours, as well as access to the Museum’s East End Stories, which document “the dynamic history of of visual artists in the region.” It will also feature material about the remarkable architecture of the building, designed by Herzog & de Meuron.

5 Best Practices for Creating Content for your Museum’s Mobile Guide

So, you have a new mobile guide and you want to deliver rock-solid content that will engage your visitors? Look no further, we have you covered with some quick tips and basic guidelines. Check out our 5 best practices for creating a compelling and accessible mobile experience for your visitors!

Highlights from TrendsWatch 2016

Summer is the time of year to regroup, head to the water to enjoy some waves, and look out at the horizon to contemplate the second half of the year. Here at Cuseum we are doing the same, though we are diving into different waters in search of what the future will be like. So much is on our minds… What will rock the industry’s boat (for better or for worse)? What tools at our disposal will be our lifejackets?

Berkshire Museum Launches New Mobile App

We’re thrilled to announce that Berkshire Museum has launched their new, mobile app with Cuseum! The app is designed to enhance visitor experience at the museum through a variety of tours. Tours such as i-Innovate will even provide supplemental information for users to access away from the museum!

Members of Cuseum win People's Choice Award at Philadelphia Museum of Art Hackathon

This past weekend, members of the Cuseum team headed down to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for its first ever Power of Art hackathon. We wanted to show our support for the museum’s initiative towards creative innovation and also to test out some new concepts we’ve been exploring and brewing up in our laboratory. As you may know by now, we’re a bunch of museum geeks, so we were beyond excited to participate.

6 Ways that Machine Vision can Help Museums

In my last post, we examined the topics of artificial intelligence and machine learning in museums. Today, I’d like to continue this thread and focus on machine vision. It couldn’t be more timely, as Google recently announced their public beta of Cloud Vision API and it has us all dreaming of interesting ways that machine vision can be used to help museums.

Exploring Artificial Intelligence in Museums

Artificial Intelligence. It’s a concept that holds lots of promise, generates endless buzz, and is starting to make its way into everyday life. “In 2015, artificial intelligence went mainstream,” and undoubtedly, in 2016, we will begin to see an increase in experimentation within the cultural space.

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