Navigation and wayfinding in Museums & Visitors Tracking

Efficient indoor navigation solution to enhance the visitors' experience.

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Nowadays, audio and textual guides for museums have become quite old-fashioned, and it’s time to replace them and create a modern tool to engage the visitors. Using indoor navigation for museums, you'll be able to create a mobile tour guide with wayfinding in museums and push notification functions. iBeacon technology provides a rich set of instruments that improve user experience and make each visit to the museum enjoyable and unforgettable.

Navigine has developed an efficient museum solution that is focused on enhancing the visitor experience and providing new capabilities for museums. 

Increase visitors satisfaction​
Let visitors easily find all exhibit items around the museum. The indoor navigation system will show visitors a way through complex exhibitions, creating digital maps in their smartphones and mini-tours in accordance with their preferences
Employ data analytics
Location-based solutions can be a powerful tool to analyze visitors’ behavior. By using RTLS museums can get all necessary information about exhibitions’ performance, obtain useful heat maps of visitors’ movement and solve safety risks
Employ targeted messaging
Museums and exhibition halls can deliver relevant content to visitors in the form of targeted push notifications, containing video, quizzes, useful information about items and so on
Improve social interaction
Mobile apps of museums integrated with location-based features can provide visitors with all necessary information, related to exhibitions’ layouts, potential queues inside the venues or discounts
Solutions
  • Wayfinding in Museums
  • Targeted Push Notifications
  • Visitors Monitoring
  • Social Interaction

Wayfinding in Museums

Visiting the museum becomes more interactive and informative with the help of an assistant that shows visitors a way through complex exhibitions. Beacons in a museum are mapping its environment and present all exhibits in one convenient interface. Visitors can use the map in the smartphone, find specific halls and exhibits to visit, and apply real-time turn-by-turn exhibition navigation. Each exhibit on the map can offer useful information in a user-friendly application, powered by Navigine location-based services.

  • Features:
  • quick update of the museum’s map and content;
  • functions of smart tour guide;
  • precise navigation for visitors;
  • building the shortest route to any exhibit.
  • Expected benefits:
  • Greatly enhanced mobile app user experience
    PR-positioning as a modern and advanced museum
    Useful information about galleries and exhibit items for visitors

Targeted Push Notifications

Navigine installs museum beacons around the perimeter of the exhibition to provide museums with an opportunity of sending targeted push notifications. The capabilities of indoor navigation allow visitors to get explicit information about the closest showpieces by detecting their location with high accuracy. This helps to deliver relevant content directly to the visitor's smartphone. An interactive form of content, such as video, quiz, mini-games, and others extends user experience and increases loyalty.

  • Features:
  • extensive content about the museum, its exhibits, services, and events;
  • implementation of the functions of the tour guide;
  • possibility to integrate augmented reality, interactive mini-games, and quests for museum visitors.
  • Expected benefits:
  • Complete information about all exhibits of the museum
    Location-based tips and offers sent to visitors
    An additional marketing and sales channel

Visitors Monitoring

Location-based technology for a museum is a powerful analytical tool to identify the visitors and learn their behavior. By tracking the exhibition visitors using RTLS you get: average time spent at the exhibition, most popular exhibits, visitor preferences, and others. Using this information you can analyze the success of exhibitions and specific exhibits and make decisions on organization, placement, and staff management. By monitoring the visitors' flow, Navigine helps museums to improve the security, detect bottlenecks and take necessary actions on time.

  • Features:
  • monitor visitors flows by leveraging “heat maps” feature;
  • enhance visitor experience with locations based promotions and tips;
  • analyze visitor behavior and success of exhibitions and events.
  • Expected benefits:
  • Evaluation of the effectiveness of advertising campaigns
    Segmentation of visitors on loyal, one-time, walking along
    Security system improvement

Social Interaction

Social networking has become a vital component of mass culture. That's why social presence means a lot for the museum audience. By integration of social interaction elements, we connect museums with their visitors based on their location and interests. Now museums can use the mobile application as a direct channel of communication by informing visitors about future exhibitions, sending special events invitations, and offering discounts.

  • Features:
  • “find your friend on the map” function;
  • collection of feedback from visitors about the museum, exhibitions, and exhibits;
  • discussions of exhibits and exhibitions with other visitors.
  • Expected benefits:
  • Timely warning of queues inside the venue
    Enhanced customer experience and satisfaction
    Communication channel between visitors who need assistance and museum staff members
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Use Cases
Kunstkamera

Kunstkamera is one of the largest and oldest ethnographic museums in the world. Navigine was selected as a proven solution provider to empower interactive museum mobile app with indoor positioning functions. Indoor navigation allows visitors to get explicit information about showpieces with outstanding accuracy. For Kunstkamera's project, we spent 2 days and installed 93 beacons for the museum.

Armoury Chamber

Navigine has joined a project to develop a multimedia application for Armoury Chamber. The app connects to the general museum database that stores information about more than 200 thousand exhibits. The precise tracking of museum or exhibition visitor location is detected using signals from Bluetooth® tags. There were 125 beacons installed on the two floors (19 816 sq feet). The interactive mobile museum guide provides relevant information about the exhibit, based on the visitor’s location.

Kunstkamera

Kunstkamera is one of the largest and oldest ethnographic museums in the world. Navigine was selected as a proven solution provider to empower interactive museum mobile app with indoor positioning functions. Indoor navigation allows visitors to get explicit information about showpieces with outstanding accuracy. For Kunstkamera's project, we spent 2 days and installed 93 beacons for the museum.

Armoury Chamber

Navigine has joined a project to develop a multimedia application for Armoury Chamber. The app connects to the general museum database that stores information about more than 200 thousand exhibits. The precise tracking of museum or exhibition visitor location is detected using signals from Bluetooth® tags. There were 125 beacons installed on the two floors (19 816 sq feet). The interactive mobile museum guide provides relevant information about the exhibit, based on the visitor’s location.

Featured Resources
Golden iBeacon: Museum navigation system
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Indoor positioning system & indoor location tracking
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Case Study: Indoor Navigation for Museums & Notifications for Nearby Exhibits
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Golden iBeacon: Museum navigation system
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Case Study: Indoor Navigation for Museums & Notifications for Nearby Exhibits
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