As quoted by one of our clients- “For museums and cultural institutions, running a membership program has always been time-consuming particularly when a number membership related tasks are done manually by the museum staffs.”

Yes, technology does make the tasks easier but the most important thing is getting the right technology implemented that can benefit in a number of ways both to the museums as well as the members. That’s why we have Digital Membership Card solution that has helped our museum clients to enhance their membership process and can work for you as well in making the renewal reminder as well as delivery of the new membership card with one simple click.

Okay, before we proceed on to how digital membership can be beneficial let’s take a quick look at what are the challenges museums have to face with a plastic/physical card.

• How many processes are you carrying out manually that could be automated?
• Do you find it easy to communicate with your members?
• Are you able to keep your members updated about the upcoming events and exhibitions or how sure you are if they open the e-mail?
• Do you know how your members want to get the membership renewed?
• How many calls are made to remind your members about the renewal of their membership?

These were some of them but there comes a lot of challenges that museum staffs have to face but with eMembership Card museums can Save the recurring costs of outsourced mail-house or internal costs of printing, separating, matching with the letter, stuffing envelopes, mailing, supplies and staff time.

Digital Membership Card has a lot that you can give to your members!

Calling up your members to remind them about the renewal can turn out to be a hectic thing for the museum staffs. Digital Membership comes with automatic renewal reminder that is received by your members on their smartphones. Push-Notifications can make life easier for both you and your members. You museum staffs have the leverage to compose customized message to send it to the members. This is perhaps a good way to improvise the PR activities. Not just this but you can also keep your members updated about the upcoming events and exhibitions.

Our solution has the up-sell module within the eMembership app can prompt your members to upgrade to next higher membership level

Isn’t that really cool?

If you too want to get digital membership card designed for your members or want to learn some for the feature then you can write to us at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630.

Watch eMembership video and explore more: http://museumanywhere.com/emembership-card/

Over the decades the educational role of museums has increased worldwide. This blog intends to discuss the adequacy of a teacher app for museums and how it makes learning easier and fun both for the students as well as teachers.

What is the educational importance of a mobile application to teachers when visiting a museum?

Earlier when technology was not much into the scene, teachers had to face a difficulty in managing the students on the field trip. So MuseumAnywhere team thought of developing mobile application that best suits teachers wherein they can put student lists and assign different tasks to the chaperones.

App developed by us consist of the following-

You must be wondering how an app can bring transformation in the way learning used to be. This approach is for a good cause as it helps the teacher to maintain the record of the student’s right on their smartphones. Proceeding further, we will be discussing the features of the amazing Teacher App.

What makes it different from any other medium of learning?
With the help of an app, teachers can create experiences for the students based on their age groups and difficulty levels.

Is it possible to keep the track of the students?

The app will allow the teachers to include information on students and assign groups as well as track the student’s emergency contact info, photo-restrictions, medications, spending money, permission slip, ICE numbers and other key info.

Can the teachers rely on Chaperones?

The teachers can appoint a chaperone who will get the access to his/her personal dashboard to manage the assigned students. A Chaperone could also be the student’s any of the parents. Once the field trip is over, the teacher has the liberty to cancel the access of the chaperones.

What other features does the app have?

• Teachers can create itinerary for the tour based on the interest of the students.
• The gamification feature included in the app can help the students tend to learn faster as it makes learning a fun.
• Teachers can generate virtual trophies or certificate based on the performance of the students in the quiz.

Want to get a Teacher App for Museums developed? If yes write to us at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630

eMembership cards can endear your museums for now and years to come. Our digital membership card solution is to provide your member the numerous benefits which couldn’t be made possible earlier. They had to wait for days to get a new membership card if the existing card got expired. Now think out of the box for your members as they deserve to be treated specially. Let them have their membership access right with few clicks and within seconds.

MuseumAnywhere team has built connectors to Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT, Raiser’s Edge, Altru and Fundly CRM software to provide eMembership cards or we can also integrate with the other membership systems.

Let’s take a look at the benefits which you can get from eMembership card-

1. Can it improve museum and member’s relation?

Who doesn’t like to get the attention? With digital membership you can send customized invitation or greetings to your members along with the filtration option, where you can select the members as per your choice. This will make your members feel that how much you care about them.

2. How does it make the renewal reminder easier?

The traditional method used to be a bit time taking, but the eMembership can help your members receive notification as the renewal date approaches. The museum can customize the frequency of the renewal reminder notification as per their choice.

3. Can the members get regular updates?

With the help of push notification the members can get updates regarding the upcoming events and exhibition or any other event along with date and timings.

4. Is it cost effective?

The solution will cut down on the expense that includes; mailing expenses which museums must have been doing for a long time. eMembership Card saves the internal costs of printing, separating, stuffing envelopes, mailing, supplies and staff time.

Membership Card can be added to Apple Wallet which means once your member has downloaded the digital membership card, he/she can save it to the Apple Wallet in order to avoid going to the application again and again. In addition, by adding the card to the apple wallet, it will become location aware which means, once the member is in the vicinity of the museum the membership card will automatically show up on their home screen.

Join us and give your members an easy and welcoming experience! To know more about eMembership Card from Raiser’s Edge NXT write to us at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630

Beacons in the museums allow personalized notifications and alerts on the visitor’s smartphone. With iBeacon integration within the mobile app or physical beacons, museums can leverage the technology immensely as it will give a clear analytics on where and how much time is spent by the visitor. This is one of the most exciting technologies so far to hit the audience in a clever and a creative way.

iBeacon technology in museum open the doors to engage the audience where it matters the most, benefiting both the visitor and the museum. With this in mind, here are a few tips from MuseumAnywhere team on how to maximize your visitors’ experience.

Keep your visitors above anything

We recommend you to keep your visitors first and also focusing on their needs. Don’t just use beacons for the sake of using it but think how much it is going to benefit you and your visitor in providing them artifact related information on his/her smartphone. This will help you to create a massive experience for your visitor and also help you in saving time, energy and costs.

Start from small

Beacons are relatively small, easy to install and affordable when compared to the other high-cost techniques. Initially, with one beacon, you can instantly reap the benefits of content delivery on the visitor’s smartphones. Today the beacon technology used by museums is a low-risk investment with many immediate benefits. So, as you learn how beacons have started working for you and your visitors, you can always add more beacons in the different sections of the museums.

Visitors look for options

Remember not all the visitors will have same preferences. Therefore, it is a must to keep in mind all the personas while designing the visitor’s engagement with the museum.

There might be some visitor’s who would enjoy the convenience of having content automatically delivered to them without needing to search for options. Some visitors may choose not to grant permission to their phone’s location. For that, it is important to provide a few options allowing your visitors to pick what is most convenient for them.

At MuseumAnywhere, it’s our goal to help you create a great experience for your visitor, all while saving you time and cost. We hope these tips will help you through the process of introducing iBeacon technology in the museum.

Have questions regarding beacons? Write to us at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630

Going green is a better change that many museums and cultural institutions need to adopt sooner or later but what is the best and reliable way of doing it? Thinking about going green takes you simply in the thoughts of opting for paper instead of plastic bags. But have you ever given a thought of how you can consider the membership cards that could help you go green?

Today we have come up with how museums can push aside the plastic membership card and go green with our Digital Membership card which will not only save your time and money; but will also be great for the Earth.

Plastic/Paper Membership Card is not one time, but it’s a repeated process.

Oh, this is what museums have to spend more on. Yes, cost of membership card doesn’t end by getting the card issued for one member at a particular time. But it effects as each member renews their membership every year and a new card is issued. All the more there are members who would lose or misplace their card and there comes the delivery cost of a new card.

As the membership approaches its expiration date, you probably need to remind your members to renew their membership, right? Doing so, you may be sending out multiple reminder letters or an email to them not only drain your staff’s time but using up a lot of paper and time in the process.

But our solution comes with a number of benefits both for museums and your members…

Considering Digital Membership card will solve the museum’s problem which you might have been facing for a long time. The eMembership card needs no manufacturing, no shipping, and no sending emails for renewal reminder. Digital Membership card is smart enough and knows what to do when the renewal date approaches. The automatic renewal reminder is sent to the member’s phone which starts 60 days prior to the expiry of the membership card or the frequency can be customized as per the museum. With quick e-delivery, the members will get the renewed card on their smartphone in real-time. By taking this step ahead, your members will appreciate the efforts you are making to make their life hassle-free.

Are you ready for the change?

Whether your motivation for making the switch to digital is purely environmental or save your organization time, money, and resource, with digital membership card museums can at least give the members what they deserve and museums can too leverage the benefits.

So, excited to make the switch to digital? If yes, write to us at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630

In short: Yes, they can!

The Museums know it better, how the best visitors end up becoming a member, but when we talk about the membership expense that museums have to bear can often be off-putting, so for that matter we are here to sweeten the deal that any museum can leverage. So how museums can compete for members attention by making membership programs with awesome perks! Here, you go with Digital Membership Card introduced by MuseumAnywhere.

We have discussed below some of our best ways museums are making the most of eMembership to accelerate member’s engagement and revenue growth:

Before we proceed on to what all eMembership have, this is to let you know that our eMembership Cards integrates with your Altru, Raiser’s Edge, Raiser’s Edge NXT and Fundly CRM. We can also integrate with any other membership systems as well.

As discussed above regarding the membership expense that museums find it a bit unbearable. But with eMembership solution, our museum clients have already started experiencing a swift change in the member’s engagement and also revenue growth.

How eMembership Card stands different from the traditional membership?

When we talk about the traditional membership, museum staffs undergo a lot of pressure as they have to make sure that the emails and the renewed membership cards are delivered on time. With us, this isn’t the case, museums can save the recurring costs of outsourced mail-house or internal costs of printing, separating, stuffing envelopes, mailing, supplies and also the staff time.

How can the museum be benefited from reciprocal membership program?

With our solution museums can collaborate with the other cultural institutions which help in extending privileges and benefits to the museum members. Reciprocal programs will not only provide an increase in revenue, but they also connect museums and cultural institutions into a larger network that provides more resources and exposure for all. Our reciprocals on the card are different which is based on the membership level.

Access to Customized Message Module-

Museums can leverage the customized message module which could be used for various PR and promotional activities, fundraising which would bring more members and ultimately help museums drive the revenue.

Feeling inspired?

Our MuseumAnywhere team would love to talk about how to make the most of your membership program. What are you waiting for? Write your queries to us at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630 and our expert will guide you in a better way.

There are many other features which we haven’t covered here. Click- eMembership Cards to explore more.

Mobile apps have become a vital part of the day-to-day life. Why should museums stay behind! Many museums and other social intuitions are being influenced by the technology as it has become a success factor and help them to stay connected with the visitors. To get the same solution you must be thinking to go on for a search of the best museum app development company in the USA. If this is your concern then you have come to the right place!

Museums had to pose a big challenge for the visitors to navigate within the region as the signboards and directions were not enough to guide and navigate the visitor. We’re going to discuss how mobile app can let you get more visitors and also how can it benefit you and your audience.

#1: Detailed info on the artifacts

Museum apps help your audience to know the stories behind their favorite art piece, and provide detailed information about the artists.

#2: Social Media Sharing

The mobile app for museum allows your visitors to experience the arts from a different perspective. With Social media sharing, they can share their experience with art-lovers, family, and friends, which would be an indirect source of spreading awareness about your museum to the people out there.

#3: The app is Multilingual

How do you connect with your audience? Connecting with the audience means communicating with them in their language. A multilingual app will make it possible as your audience will not find it difficult to use your museum application. The app designed is multilingual which helps the audience to go through the information in their desired language.

#4: Mark as favorite

Your visitors could mark the piece of art as favorite and save the information of art pieces, paintings and preserve them in their personal art collections. This allows them to read and recall it whenever they want to or need it or any research work.

To sum up, museum applications no doubt are developed and intended to benefit the museum visitors. Would you like to have something like this? We are here. Being the best Museum App Development Company, we have developed and deployed many smartphones and tablet-based museum apps for our clients.

To get detailed information you can write to us at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630

Members enjoy incredible privileges in museums and other institutions. Why not try an eMembership program for them! Sounds interesting?

The eMembership card makes membership even more convenient for the museum as well as the members. We came up with the solution called membership cards app so that your members don’t have to carry an extra card in their wallet. Not just this, but museums can benefit their members in many other ways which we have highlighted below.

Experience all that you can offer in the best way to your members!

MuseumAnywhere makes it possible for museums to let their members carry the member cards on their Android and iOS devices rather than in their wallets. Once the app is installed on the mobile device, your members only need to enter their membership number once to download the card and then enjoy all the benefits the museum has to offer. Our membership card designed for museums has the following features:

• Unlike plastic membership cards, you can keep your members updated about what’s going on in the museum and about the upcoming events and exhibitions. Yes, with the help of push-notification you can send the required information so that without missing any chance, they can manage their time to visit the events.
• We help you make the renewal of membership cards easier. The app will automatically notify your members before/after the expiry date of the card which starts 60 days before the expiration so that they can renew it on time. The frequency of the days can be customized by the museums.
• Security Module added within the app for audit trail of downloads, capability to block device and even remotely wipe card if needed.
• Let your members have the access to notifications, floor maps and other information etc.
• Earlier when the membership used to expire, the member had to wait for a period of time to receive the new one. But now, museums can benefit their members with quick e-delivery of new membership cards.
• eMembership solution also offers a Guest Passes add-on. If you offer Guest passes then an additional button “Guest Passes” appears on Member Benefits page.
• Members can easily find the location of your museum as our solution has ‘Locate us’ option in the application to help your members get step-by-step direction to the museum.

Push aside paper and plastic to go green!

The museum membership cards app is a go-green approach which is cost-effective. Now save the recurring cost which you must have been spending for so long on sending the mails & electronic mails, or internal costs of printing, stuffing envelopes, supplies and staff time. Choose the much more environmental friendly option.

If you prefer to get the digital membership cards for your museum, then feel free to write us at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630

Today, each and everyone are glued to their smartphones and this isn’t really astonishing as mobile phone and application has become an important part of people’s lives. There are applications available in the app store that has helped people in making their lives easier. With the evolving mobile technology, visitors who enter enclosed public spaces like galleries, malls, airports, and museums are experiencing a new way to stay engaged day by day. If you too want to let your audience experience a highly useful, convenient solution which is delivered in a timely and seamless manner then go for museum app development.

Make the exhibition experience stronger

Mobile App helps the museums to interact with their visitors. It’s more important for the museums to know how to enhance the visitor’s experience by maintaining their loyalty.

• Apps make artifacts alive
• It helps to create information pathways in museum
• It serves as an information collector which means getting a rich analytics on where and what your visitors are doing
• Apps encourage visitor involvement
• It bridges the gap between a visitor and the museum. In the sense, a visitor can get the answer to any queries through application
• It supports the modern concepts of learning with the help of gamification

Museum App Development with Beacon Technology

Coming to a more enhanced technology, integration of iBeacon in your application might be the right choice for to interact with your visitors.

• Beacon technology plays several roles in the museums such as collecting data to gain insights on visitor conduct, offer digital content for each exhibit; act as a guide on mobiles
• Provide a rich experience to the visitors by videos, audio clips, and photographs
• Serves as a marketing solution to museums as it allows visitors to create their tours and share them on social media (Facebook and Twitter)

App for Education or Research Purpose

• Mobile App with iBeacon offers all the tools required for world-class learning skills for students, researchers as well as art lovers
• Students and researchers can take notes and work together with their associated students on the projects

Get in touch with us to know more about museum app development. Our experts will assist you. Write to us at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630

Have you ever thought how museums can generate revenue by providing eMembership cards to their members? For museums creating a digital experience for their members can not only provide immense benefits to the members but they can also leverage the digital membership card to generate revenue. A plastic membership card can get lost in the clutter and easily forgotten. As a museum owner, you must be willing to provide your members a cutting-edge, interactive experience that enhances your exhibits and bring the museum, zoo, historic site, science center, aquarium experience to a whole new level. Here comes eMembership card for the museums by MuseumAnywhere.

Membership Renewal Process

For museums, membership renewal doesn’t always come easy. From the moment a member joins, you need to establish a connection and give privilege that makes them feel valued. Otherwise, you might face the much-dreaded membership churn.

The Phone Calls and E-Mails

The traditional method of membership process is a bit time taking, and talking about the membership renewal, museums have to spend a lot on reminding their members about the renewal. Majority of respondents use email to get members to renew. With no surprise, email are cost-saving but are they really effective? Coming straight to the point, museums have to spend a lot on outsourced mail-house or internal costs of printing, separating, matching with the letter, stuffing envelopes, mailing, supplies and staff time. It really becomes hectic for a museum to call their members about 2-3 times a week just to remind them about their membership renewal.

Once the membership gets lapsed, there are fewer chances if the members would renew it, but in our eMembership solution the members would get notified with a link which would take them to your membership renewal page. For such a case, a notification received on their smartphone is more effective than receiving an email which would let your members respond to the renewal reminder not without taking much of their time.

eMembership card help museums in generating revenue

When we talk about how eMembership can leverage the museums to generate the revenue, it’s very simple to understand. Our eMembership card is a solution which has been designed by keeping both the members and museums in mind. The eMembership card is smart and it knows when the renewal date is approaching. Its starts to notify your members 60 days prior to the expiration date. Also, the frequency could be customized as per the museum. This would help the museums to get better revenue on the renewal of the membership while saving the cost of mailing the renewed membership card.

Up-sell text on ‘My Membership Benefits’

The eMembership App allows the museum staffs to provide up-sell module within ‘My Membership Benefits’ option, where museums can shows promotional upgrade messages, prompting members to upgrade to next higher membership level.

Consider what makes the most sense to offer the best to your members and you’ll be well on your way to increasing revenues while providing a better experience to your members.

Summing Up

Mostly renewal management staffs are under constant pressure for reaching out the members for membership renewal and make sure that the existing members receive the reminder emails on the right date. With eMembership cards for museum, the renewal process comes with greatest benefit that you immediately win back hours of time. This allows you to think more strategically, developing and providing a better member experience overall.

Are you ready to tune up your membership renewal strategy? If you have any queries regarding eMembership card that we didn’t cover here, drop us an email at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630