Category: GVAM
The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (Spain) has reached an agreement with the Orange Foundation and GVAM to develop a mobile application (app) with different routes for each of the following museums: National Museum and Research Center of Altamira, the Museum of Roman Art in Merida, Valladolid’s Sculpture...
National Heritage (Patrimonio Nacional in spanish) has decided to take a revolutionary change in its technological offer for its 3 million annual visitors. Following the steps of museums like The Louvre or The RijksMuseum, which replaced the traditional audio guide, this great Spanish cultural institution seeks to value the assets of its...
Last November 28th, the exhibition “The route of Hernán Cortés” , the first in the world dedicated to the figure of the conqueror, opened its doors to the public in Madrid. Visitors can tour the exhibition with a multimedia guide which uses audio and images to summarize the key aspects...
Avila and Segovia will be the first Spanish Heritage Cities to have a mobile application available for all visitors. Both municipalities will be incorporated into the Áppside project, promoted by the Orange Foundation and GVAM to achieve equal access to culture and national heritage. Avila and Segovia’ respective apps...
Advances brought by the Internet and new technologies have changed the way we tell stories. Today, we aspire to create a media narrative in which the viewer becomes the creator, a new form of narrative called “transmedia storytelling.” This concept was first used in 2003 by the American MIT...
Gamification is destined to become an influential trend in the coming years, and may be just as important as Facebook, eBay or Amazon when it comes to web innovation. So much so that a recent study by Gartner, an American consultancy, notes that by the end...
In the 60s, New Museology added the educational role to the museum field, transcending the aural character of the works on display and giving them a value beyond the purely ritual. Today, technologies like Augmented Reality (AR) are aligned with this feature and add entertainment; a formula that will...
The newly opened National Archaeological Museum (MAN – Museo Arqueológico Nacional) in Madrid’s Golden Mile, offers visitors a multimedia guide tailored to the needs of people with disabilities. Visitors can purchase it with their entry ticket for an additional 2 euros. This is an alternative tool to traditional audio...
The National Archaeological Museum opened its doors yesterday after undertaking a complete refurbishment, both physical and digital. Those who can not come to admire the result, may do so from any location using the “MAN, National Archaeological Museum” app, developed by GVAM and freely available for IOS and Android....
The main Spanish organizations working for the rights and interests of persons with disabilities have expressed support for Áppside, a project born from the collaboration between Fundación Orange and GVAM Guías Interactivas to promote and implement accessible mobile applications in Spanish museums. For many disabled people, mobile technology is...
We addressed the following issues in our interview with Halena Rojas: the Smartphone user with visual disability and computer developers. Halena works as a consultant in the fields of accessibility, universal design e-learning and new technologies. She previously worked as a programmer in various educational projects. We had the...
Visitors to El Born Cultural Centre, which opened last September, can now request accessible mobile guides. These have been developed using GVAM technology. They perform the same functions as audio and traditional sign language guides, with the advantage that they integrates video and audio and they offer different options...
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