Tour App for Museums and Cultural Institutions
Create self-guided tours visitors can access from their own phones — with audio, images, video, maps, and digital content that brings your museum experience to life.
Cuseum helps museums and cultural organizations launch custom tour apps that guide visitors through exhibitions, collections, galleries, and cultural spaces through an easy-to-manage mobile experience.
- Custom-branded museum tour app
- Self-guided tours for exhibitions, collections, and galleries
- Audio, images, video, maps, and visitor resources
- Easy content management dashboard
- Works on iOS, Android, and mobile web
Trusted by Leading Museums and Cultural Organizations
Used by museums, cultural institutions, and visitor attractions to create more engaging self-guided tour experiences.
Give Visitors a Modern Way to Explore Your Museum
Printed guides and traditional tour devices can be difficult to update, costly to manage, and limited in what they can offer. A museum tour app gives visitors a flexible, mobile-first way to explore your space at their own pace.
Easier Self-Guided Tours
Visitors can access tours, stops, maps, images, videos, and helpful information directly from their own phones.
More Engaging Visitor Experiences
Use multimedia content to tell deeper stories, highlight collection objects, and guide visitors through exhibitions.
Flexible Content Updates
Update tour stops, descriptions, media, maps, languages, and visitor information without reprinting materials.
Lower Operational Burden
Reduce the need for rented devices, printed guides, manual updates, and staff-managed tour materials.
Everything You Need to Launch a Museum Tour App
Self-Guided Tours
Create tours for exhibitions, galleries, collections, historic spaces, campuses, and special programs.
Multimedia Content
Add audio, images, video, text, links, and supporting content to make each tour stop more engaging.
Easy Content Management
Update your tour app from a simple dashboard without needing a developer.
Interactive Maps
Help visitors navigate your museum, find key areas, and move through the tour experience with confidence.
Multiple Languages
Offer tours in different languages to support more visitors and improve accessibility.
Visitor Engagement Tools
Share announcements, calls to action, donor messages, membership information, event promotions, and visitor resources.
How Cuseum’s Tour App Works
Create Your Tour Content
Add audio, images, descriptions, videos, maps, and supporting information for each tour stop.
Organize the Visitor Journey
Build tours by exhibition, gallery, collection, theme, language, visitor type, or program.
Visitors Access the Tour App
Visitors use their own phones to open the tour app and explore your museum at their own pace.
Update Content Anytime
Your team can edit, add, or remove content through Cuseum’s dashboard whenever your tours change.
Turn Exhibitions into Self-Guided Digital Tours
Create guided mobile experiences that help visitors explore your museum with more context, flexibility, and independence.
Use a self-guided tour app to highlight collection objects, support temporary exhibitions, provide accessibility content, and tell deeper stories throughout your space. Visitors can move through the experience with audio, visuals, maps, and helpful information directly on their phone.
See It in ActionTurn Tour App Engagement into Revenue Opportunities
Your tour app can do more than guide visitors. It can also help promote donations, memberships, events, programs, and other revenue-driving opportunities.
Accept Donations
Give visitors an easy way to support your museum during or after their visit.
Promote Membership
Encourage visitors to become members while they are actively engaged with your tour content.
Highlight Events and Programs
Promote upcoming exhibitions, lectures, workshops, guided tours, family programs, and special experiences.
Share Visitor Offers
Promote museum store items, café offers, ticket upgrades, special access, or other visitor opportunities.
Manage Your Tours Without a Developer
Your team can edit and manage tour app content from Cuseum’s dashboard.
Update tour stops, add new exhibitions, change descriptions, upload media, adjust maps, promote programs, and keep visitor information current without waiting on technical support.
A Better Tour Experience for Every Visitor
Works Across Devices
Visitors can access your tour app on iOS, Android, and mobile web.
Mobile-First Design
The experience is designed for visitors using their own smartphones.
No Rented Devices Required
Reduce device management, maintenance, cleaning, charging, and replacement costs.
Accessible Visitor Content
Support different visitor needs with audio, text, visuals, maps, and multilingual content.
See the Audio Tour Guide App in Action
“Cuseum helped us showcase what a mobile app could add to the Briscoe visitor experience. The interface was seamless and intuitive, and we wanted the opportunity to control our own content.”
Jennifer Chowning
Director of Education, Briscoe Western Art Museum
Compatible Across All Devices
Your tour app works across the devices visitors already use.
Available for:
Ready to Launch Your Museum Tour App?
Give visitors a modern, self-guided mobile experience that helps them explore your museum from their own phones.
FAQs
What is a tour app?
A tour app is a mobile experience that helps visitors follow self-guided tours, access digital content, navigate a space, and learn more from their own phone.
What is a museum tour app used for?
Museums use tour apps to guide visitors through exhibitions, collections, galleries, historic spaces, campuses, and special programs.
What can a self-guided tour app include?
A self-guided tour app can include audio, images, video, text, maps, links, accessibility content, multilingual content, and visitor resources.
Can visitors use the app on their own phones?
Yes. Visitors can access the tour experience from their own smartphones.
Do visitors need to download an app?
Cuseum can support mobile app and mobile web experiences depending on your organization’s needs.
Can we create multiple tours?
Yes. You can create tours for exhibitions, collections, galleries, languages, visitor groups, accessibility needs, or special programs.
Can the tour app include audio?
Yes. Your tour app can include audio stops, narration, object stories, exhibition guides, and other audio content.
Can visitors use the app on their own phones?
Yes. The app can include maps to help visitors navigate exhibitions, galleries, amenities, and key points of interest.
Can we update tour content ourselves?
Yes. Your team can manage and update content through Cuseum’s dashboard.
Does the tour app support multiple languages?
Yes. You can create multilingual tours to support different visitor audiences.
Can the app help promote donations or memberships?
Yes. You can include calls to action for donations, memberships, events, programs, visitor offers, and other engagement opportunities.
What should museums look for in the best tour app?
Museums should look for a tour app that is easy for visitors to use, simple for staff to manage, flexible across devices, and able to support multimedia content, maps, accessibility features, and visitor engagement tools.
Is this only for museums?
No. Cuseum’s tour app platform can also support cultural institutions, historic sites, galleries, universities, attractions, and other visitor experiences.
How long does it take to launch a tour app?
The timeline depends on your content, branding, features, and setup requirements. Book a demo to understand what implementation would look like for your organization.