MuseumTalk

MuseumTalk turns your collection into a conversation.

Visitors explore by asking real questions — in plain language, in your museum's voice, grounded in your own catalog. From "I wonder…" to a path through the collection.

Visitor experience

Every visitor arrives with a question.

Portrait of Nicolaes Ruts by Rembrandt van Rijn
Rembrandt van Rijn, Portrait of Nicolaes Ruts, 1631. The Frick Collection, New York.

A school group, a returning art lover, someone who wandered in out of the rain — each one carries a different curiosity. One wants to know why a painting matters. One follows a color, a place, a name. MuseumTalk lets them ask in their own words and follow the thread, object to object, without needing to know how a curator would have filed it.

No catalog terms. No dead-end searches. Just curiosity, answered.

For the visitor, it's curiosity. For the museum, it's something more.

Much more, for the museum

For the museum, it's much more.

Insight into what visitors actually want.

Every question your visitors ask is captured — and shared back with you. For the first time, you can see what your audience is genuinely curious about, on-site and online.

A path into your wider collection.

MuseumTalk draws visitors beyond the object in front of them toward the depth of your catalog — the works and connections most visitors never reach.

Attention that lasts.

Visitors don't glance and move on; a conversation holds them, one question leading into the next.

Access, engagement, and understanding — from a single conversation.

How it works

Your collection, at the center.

Here's what's underneath. MuseumTalk understands a visitor's question in plain language and answers it from your own material — your catalog, your records, the sources you approve. The technology behind it is AI, but a carefully bounded kind: it doesn't invent, and it doesn't wander off into the general internet. It explores and explains; every answer stays anchored in your own collection.

Grounded in your catalog.

MuseumTalk works from your existing collection data — no rebuild, no migration. Answers come from your records, not from guesswork.

Configured to your museum.

Its tone, focus, and boundaries fit your institution — your voice, your rights model, what you do and don't want it to say.

Refined by you, over time.

You see the questions your visitors ask, and MuseumTalk's answers are tuned from there — sharper the more your collection is explored.

A shared platform underneath. Your museum on the surface.

Proof

Don't take our word for it. Watch it work.

We've built MuseumTalk demos on the collections of several of the largest museums in the world. The public demo opens soon; when it does, you can ask it anything and watch it answer from the collection.

Then the part that matters: we can build the same thing on your collection. Your objects, your records, the questions your visitors would actually ask. A 7-day trial, on your own material, so you can judge MuseumTalk on what it does for you — not on what we say.

All we ask in return is a few short questions about your collection, so we can tune it to you before you even see it.
Not into questionnaires? Skip most of those questions — we'll see how far we get without your help.

How can we help? Take your pick.

Public demo

The public demo opens soon.

Leave your email and you'll get the link the day it goes live.

Keep me posted

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Trial application

Apply for a 7-day free trial on your own collection. We'll build MuseumTalk on your material, so you can judge it on your own objects, records, and real visitor questions. The more you tell us, the better we can tune it before you see it.

About you
About your collection

The more you share, the sharper your trial — but skip any of these if you'd rather not.

One more question

If your email app doesn't open, send your application directly to ronald@storytech.nl.