Category: GVAM
Every year Barcelona Cathedral hosts a music and dance performance in honour of Santa Eulalia, the patron saint of Barcelona. These images begin the new interactive audioguide to the Cathedral, promising an exciting journey through the eighteen centuries of history and legend in this beloved Barcelona landmark. Cathedrals let...
The people of Mallorca love La Seu, their cathedral, more than any other site. For some it is the most beautiful cathedral in the world, made of stone and light. However, many of the wonderful things inside it are practically unknown, even to the locals! The new interactive audioguide...
A Digital Culture survey conducted as a collaborative venture between Arts Council England and Nesta found a significant increase in the proportion of organisations that valued digital technology—up from 34 per cent in 2013 to 53 per cent in 2017. It also revealed increases in digital activity including engagement...
A visit to Madrid’s Postal and Telegraph Museum is a great experience, and not just for stamp enthusiasts – you can discover innovations which were crucial to today’s communications. This is how we tell the story in our new interactive guide, with videos and other multimedia resources so you...
Press play and put yourself in the shoes of the brilliant architects of the Tower of the Captive! These are the first images of our virtual reality project in the Alhambra, which will allow visitors to enjoy this unique space as it might have been in the 14th century...
On the 14th September, we carried out our conference titled “Big Data in Museums” in the Global Sports Innovation Centre (supported by Microsoft). This conference, which was the first of its kind in Spain, was directed at professionals working in monuments and museums of various kinds, particularly cultural and...
In the previous article – What’s the meaning of “Big Data in museums?” we talked about the key to unlocking the value of Big Data: to convert data into knowledge. This conversion of data into knowledge obviously has a cost attached to it, or rather several. It usually involves...
Four years ago, the Big Bang Data exhibition encouraged us to question the role of Big Data in society. Big Data was the focus of reflection, even becoming an artistic work for the exhibition; however, exact figures were not spoken about in the museum context. Today, museums form a part...
Earlier today, Real Madrid C.F and Microsoft presented the first interactive audio guide for the tour of the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, a guide developed by GVAM. Starting tomorrow, April 4th, the service will be available for the more than one million tourists and fans that visit the stadium of...
The Alhambra opens a new multimedia guide service that replaces the previous audio guides. The proposal combines phablets available for rent on the premises and a mobile app (app) that can now be downloaded on Android devices and soon will also be available on iOS. This morning, the director...
Visitors to the Lazaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid can now enjoy the latest GVAM multimedia guides which offer users increased usability and new interaction features (available for iOS and Android). The renovation follows GVAM’s recent award of this museum’s project to exploit as a joint operation a service that...
“Avila Tourism” (“Ávila turismo” in spanish) is the name of the official app to visit Avila, a Spanish World Heritage city. This guide, aimed at all visitors, includes audio and images tailored to the needs of people with visual or hearing impairments. It uses audio description, subtitling and sign language videos...
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