Artificial Intelligence and Museums
Although we do not fully realize it, Artificial Intelligence has become an integral part of our daily lives and its beneficial applications can also involve the cultural sector. Museums may exploit the increasing availability of big data and AI methods to offer a personalized and innovative experience to their visitors, as well as to improve various aspects of museum management, such as adequate pricing schemes to attract more visitors.
Ai-Museums Project
Our main goals
Make museums’ management more efficient and profitable
We are using machine learning algorithms to predict visitor flows on a daily and possibly hourly basis. This tool will improve the museums’ operational and strategic planning, and it will be available to the management through the software “V-PREDICT”.
The use of beacon sensors will allow to measure even the duration of visits and track visitors’ itineraries within the city.
The project also analyses the factors affecting demand for museum services, whose ultimate goal isto optimize pricing and marketing strategies.
Finally, the app I-Muse will allow visitors to buy the museum cardand will generate dynamic QR codes, thus reducing fraudulent behaviors (passbacks) and waiting times at the museums’ entrances.
Make visitors’ experience more exciting
QR codes will be installed around artworks to create connections among different artworks across museums. Artificial Intelligence will create such connections based on various textual and visual information.
Moreover, starting from different keywords (e.g. “climate change”) AI will build a virtual meta-museum which will relate objects belonging to collections from different physical museums, thus giving rise to virtual museums (e.g. the virtual “Museum of climate change”).
Finally, the gaming app LineTime will contain new ad hoc categories related to the museum contents.
Academic research
The various data collected through the project will be used to write articles which will be published on academic journals.