A New Way to Experience Museums
At Culture For Causes Network, we believe technology should bring people closer to culture — not distract them from it. That’s the spirit behind Muse Companion, a new intelligent guide designed to make museum visits more engaging, more playful, and more meaningful.
Muse Companion helps visitors learn while they explore — not by staring at a screen, but by moving, observing, and interacting with the artworks and spaces around them. It transforms passive visits into active journeys of discovery.
What Is Muse Companion?
Muse Companion is an AI-powered visitor companion that gamifies learning inside museums.
It accompanies visitors before, during, and after their visit, offering dynamic interactions and stories tailored to each person.
Multiple modes for different experiences:
– Treasure Hunt – a playful path of clues and challenges to uncover hidden stories.
– Guide Mode – personalized routes and explanations based on visitor interests.
– Scan Mode – instant insights by scanning an artwork or exhibit label.
Muse Companion encourages curiosity, exploration, and connection — all while keeping visitors’ eyes on the art, not glued to their phones.
Muse Companion also helps museums better understand their audiences — ethically and responsibly.
All interactions with visitors can generate anonymous insights about behaviors, interests, and emotions during the visit.
These aggregated data points are never linked to individuals, but they provide valuable information to help museums improve visitor experience, enhance accessibility, and even rethink exhibition design and spatial flow. In short, every interaction becomes a way to make the museum smarter — not by tracking people, but by learning collectively from them.
Sustainability and Data Sovereignty
Muse Companion has been built with eco-friendly technology at its core:
- ⚙️ Optimized token usage for reduced energy consumption.
- 🧠 Local dataset hosting, ensuring that your museum’s data stays within your walls.
- ☁️ Flexible deployment, allowing installation on your own servers or chosen secure environments.
This means museums can adopt AI tools responsibly — without compromising sustainability, privacy, or sovereignty over their data.
Join the Beta Program
Muse Companion is now entering its beta testing phase, and participation is completely free. We’re inviting a limited number of museums and cultural institutions to take part in this unique experimentation phase.
We will only select organizations that are truly committed to exploring how AI can enhance the visitor experience and are willing to share constructive feedback with our team. If your museum values innovation, accessibility, and creative learning, we would love to hear from you.
Why join the beta program?
- Test AI-based visitor engagement tools with no development cost, allowing you to evaluate how ready your audiences are for this kind of experience.
- Get early access to an innovative AI companion designed specifically for museums.
- Contribute directly to the design of responsible, human-centered AI tools for the cultural sector.
- Gain visibility as a pioneering institution experimenting with new digital practices (by mutual agreement).
- Benefit from a preferential framework if you later wish to deploy the solution after the beta phase.
The collaboration remains non-commercial during the beta, but museums that contribute to shaping the prototype will naturally be considered first-tier partners when the tool enters its deployment phase.
Please note that participation requests will be reviewed to ensure a balanced and diverse group of partner institutions. Selection will be based on alignment with the project’s objectives and the museum’s commitment to actively support the beta phase.