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
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Trusted by Leading Museums and Cultural Organizations

Used by museums, cultural institutions, and visitor attractions to create more engaging self-guided tour experiences.

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Why Museums Use Tour Apps

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.

Features

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 It Works

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.

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Curated Tours

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.

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Monetization

Turn 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.

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Content Management

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.

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App Experience

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.

Testimonial

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

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Compatible Across All Devices

Your tour app works across the devices visitors already use.

Available for:

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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.