Use Case · Museums
Galleries and Exhibits, Explored on Your Own Terms.
Hearsee guides blind and low-vision visitors gallery to gallery and exhibit to exhibit, so exploring a museum doesn’t depend on a docent’s schedule.
Why It Works Here
How It Helps in Museums
Self-paced gallery navigation
Visitors move from wing to wing and exhibit to exhibit whenever they want, not only during a scheduled accessible tour.
Precise indoors, where GPS fails
Museums are often large, multi-floor, and GPS-poor. Hearsee's tags mark exhibits and wayfinding points GPS can't reach.
Guidance that steps back
Audio cues are minimal and predictable, giving direction to the next stop instead of a constant narration competing with exhibit audio.
Built with community feedback
Route and cue design reflects direct input from blind and low-vision visitors, not a generic accessibility checklist.
The Challenge
Why Museums Are Hard to Navigate
Museums are designed to be explored, not walked in a straight line. Open floor plans, rotating exhibits, and multiple entrances make static tactile maps and audio-tour scripts hard to keep current, and a visitor who wants to explore on their own often has no way to get from gallery to gallery without asking a docent.
Open floor plans
Gallery layouts prioritize sightlines and flow over fixed paths, which is exactly what makes them disorienting without sight.
Source: Common accessibility finding across museum wayfinding research
Audio-first
Existing museum accessibility tools like audio tours and described-tour apps explain what’s in front of a visitor. They don’t tell a visitor how to get there.
Source: Hearsee product analysis of museum accessibility tooling
Proof in practice
Museum Case Studies
Every museum case study will follow the same standard, documented below, once one is live.
Not yet deployed
We Have Not Published a Museum Case Study
Hearsee has not completed a full museum deployment we can report results on. Here’s what one would include: an on-site mapping of your busiest routes, RFID tags at entrances and key destinations, and the same Hearsee app + cane experience already proven at Utah Arts Academy, our first live case study.
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