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Digital Membership cards from your Altru System

Museums are both necessary and relevant today as it includes art, history, science centers, zoos, aquariums, nature centers, historic sites for conserving, protecting and displaying artifacts from our past and thus preserving our rich heritage which might otherwise be lost to private collectors or with time itself.

Museums are both necessary and relevant today as it includes art, history, science centers, zoos, aquariums, nature centers, historic sites for conserving, protecting and displaying artifacts from our past and thus preserving our rich heritage which might otherwise be lost to private collectors or with time itself. Your members have to go through a long process at the counter, trying to wrangle and answering your greeting, while digging out their membership card.

With so many other cards in the wallet, your members might tend to end up with the checked-in madness. No one wants to enter a facility and feel immediately stressed or overwhelmed just trying to get in the museum.

Want to do something good for your members?

We have come up with digital membership cards for Altru system, where museums will be able to reward their members and reduce their wait time. By eliminating the need for a card at the museum we increase the understanding of all your members. Yes, the eMembership Cards appears on your member’s smartphones as it is a huge convenience to members.

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

Benefits of Digital Membership card for Altru

The eMembership card is designed to enhance your member’s experience. Let’s see few of the points how it can benefit them-

  • They will have their membership card on their smartphones which is simple as they don’t have to worry about having it handy.
  • Push notification can help your members to review exclusive discounts, upcoming events, and exhibitions.
  • Your members will get notified before/after the expiry date of the card which starts 60 days before the expiration so that they can renew it on time.
  • Member can access top right menu to see notifications, floor maps, FAQ’s, privacy policy etc.
  • Once the membership card approaches the date of its expiration, museums can benefit their members with quick e-delivery of new membership cards.
  • Navigate the museum with ‘Locate us’ option that gives you step-by-step live directions to reach the museum.

Talk to us and give your members an easy, cost-effective, welcoming, and simple experience. They will love becoming a member with a handful of benefits. Apart from this, the museums can experience benefits from the digital membership card for Altru as it cut down on expenses which include the printing cost, postage and mailing cost.

To know more about eMembership, reach us via email sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630

Improvise the Learning & Teaching Experience -Teacher App for Museum

The growing technology has made its foray into the education through the revolutionary smart class concept which imparted the Audio/Visual dimensions to the education sector.

The growing technology has made its foray into the education through the revolutionary smart class concept which imparted the Audio/Visual dimensions to the education sector. With it, mobile apps have ventured into educational apps and are found to be really effective as the students develop an interest in learning which ultimately increases the productivity and efficiency in terms of time. It helps the student of different age groups to grasp the lessons quickly.

To make the solution interesting we have come up with teacher app for museums which helps the teachers to put in student lists, assign chaperones, plan visit based on interests, estimate time that will be taken for the entire tour, quiz and group rankings with virtual trophies and teacher’s ability to collaborate with the Museum/Science-center.

The whole concept of introducing teacher app for museums by Museum Anywhere is to improve education and student-teacher relationship. Let’s see how it can be a beneficial;

  • The app is built with CMS which mean the content can be changed easily without the need of a developer.
  • The teachers can manage the field trip by arranging group quiz.
  • With the help of mobile application, the teachers can create experiences for the students based on their age groups and difficulty levels.
  • It is important for teachers to have all the basic information of the students before they go on for a museum visit or other trips. The app helps the teacher to include information on students such as student’s emergency contact info, photo-restrictions, medications, spending money, permission slip, ICE numbers etc.
  • 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.
  • The teacher app for museum can help the teachers to create an itinerary for the tour based on the interest of the students such as science, natural world, history and community to your field trip.
  • The gamification feature included in the app can help the students tend to learn faster as it makes learning a fun.
  • The app will facilitate the teachers to generate virtual trophies or certificates based on the performance of the students in the quiz.

Our solution has helped the teachers to make the learning process exciting and in managing the school trips in a better way. And if you are looking to get teacher app for museum or science center developed reach us out at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630

Member Fast Lane Kiosk by Museum Anywhere

Standing in long queues becomes increasingly stressful for the visitors as it involving a lot of check-in formalities. To avoid making the process hassle-free both for you and your members, Museum Anywhere has introduced Member Fast Lane Kiosk aiming at enhancing the members experience at every turn and provide advantages that we believe will reduce cases such as waiting times, and minimize crowding- all while creating a platform for an ever more personalized experience for your members.

Standing in long queues becomes increasingly stressful for the visitors as it involving a lot of check-in formalities. To avoid making the process hassle-free both for you and your members, Museum Anywhere has introduced Member Fast Lane Kiosk aiming at enhancing the members experience at every turn and provide advantages that we believe will reduce cases such as waiting times, and minimize crowding- all while creating a platform for an ever more personalized experience for your members.

Our member fast lane not only addresses and resolves cost and friction, but they also provide a host of benefit your members in a number of ways-

  • Member Fast Lane is a solution on iPad affixed on counter or stand. It comes with a companion iPad with Fast Lane for your staff.
  • With eMembership you can give priority and attention to the members so that they don’t have to wait in the general queue behind people inquiring and buying tickets.
  • Your members should really be the first to be greeted and prioritized for entry.
  • Member Fast Lane solution allows your members to gain quick entry without waiting with other visitors. You don’t have to staff additional person for members.
  • Members can put in couple of information and their card will instantly show up on screen.
  • Card also pops on kiosk staff’s iPad instantly while they may be attending other people in general queue and staff can verbally acknowledge the members. (E.g. Thank you Mr. Wilson, go right in…)
  • Fast lane can show max how many people are allowed with that type of membership and capture how many came in and generate reports for staff.

We are a Technology Partner of Blackbaud, Inc. and our Member Fast Lane Kiosk is already integrated with Blackbaud Altru, Raiser’s Edge, Raiser’s Edge NXT, Fundly CRM. If you have another membership system that we do not have integration to, we will do it for you.

We would love to hear from you. Reach us for more information at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630

Benefits of eMembership Cards for Museum

Museums and many other cultural institutions are being redefined in the digital age. Shouldn’t membership card evolve as well? So we would like to talk about our product that will help you to modernize the membership. eMembership card on member’s phone is generated from Altru, Raiser’s Edge, PatronManager, DonorPerfect, Raiser’s Edge NXT and Fundly CRM software or any other membership system.

Museums and many other cultural institutions are being redefined in the digital age. Shouldn’t membership card evolve as well? So we would like to talk about our product that will help you to modernize the membership. eMembership card on member’s phone is generated from Altru, Raiser’s Edge, Raiser’s Edge NXT and Fundly CRM software or any other membership system.

eMembership card can enhance the member’s experience and benefit them as well as the museums in a number of ways.

  • eMembership card is smart enough as it knows what to do when its renewal date approaches.
  • The frequency of the renewal reminder notification can be customized as per the museum.
  • 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.
  • You can send push-notification to your members regarding the upcoming events and exhibitions.
  • If the membership card gets lapsed you can benefit your members with quick e-delivery of new membership cards.
  • Not only this, but museum app can show current benefits to the member and you can tempt your members to upgrade to next higher membership level.
  • 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.

Our solution is easy to implement and customize. eMembership cards gives the institutions an opportunity to quickly and easily improve their membership engagement.

Apart from benefitting the members with digital membership card, museums can also enjoy the benefits as they will cut down on the expense which includes; mailing expenses which museums must have been doing for a long time. The recurring costs can also be saved on internal costs of printing, separating, stuffing envelopes, mailing, supplies and staff time.

So, if you have special requirements like Guest Passes, Caregiver Cards, Guest membership or have another membership system other than Altru or RE, let us know and we will take care of those.

Feel free to reach us via email sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630

Visitor Sign-in Kiosk by Museum Anywhere

Are you getting analytics on what brought a person in your museum? Are you leveraging opportunities for expanding membership base? With the increasing museum activities taking place in the digital realm, museums and other institutions are faced with many challenges of developing an effective way to define, measure and evaluate the ongoing activities and by this, we mean a complete analytics on what is happening around in the museum.

Are you getting analytics on what brought a person in your museum? Are you leveraging opportunities for expanding membership base? With the increasing museum activities taking place in the digital realm, museums and other institutions are faced with many challenges of developing an effective way to define, measure and evaluate the ongoing activities and by this, we mean a complete analytics on what is happening around in the museum. This might sound obvious to you, but yes we are talking about how important it is to understand by being digital on one hand and enable the data collection and management.

For visitor service team it becomes struggling and even more in getting reliable analytics on the visitors because one cannot figure out the purpose of their visit and also who have recommended and how many times they visit in a year or month. Often the electronic counting solutions are implemented that just give the basic counts on visitors.

We are here to announce about our product Visitor Sign-in Kiosk. Sign In-Tablet Kiosks to gather the info that you can use within the museum and with museum benefactors? It is an inexpensive solution with significant Return on Investment.

With just a few questions, Visitor Sign-in Kiosk solution from MuseumAnywhere team can identify a repeat visitor and also get valuable analytics for you.

  • Analytics on the numbers of visitors and also the age groups.
  • Analytics on what brought them in – an event, an exhibition, an educational session etc.
  • Where they come from and opportunity to get info for targeting for events or exhibition announcements or increasing your membership base.
  • What type of visitors they are- family, friends or people from outside the country (tourists).
  • Analytics on other information like the visitor’s contact number and e-mail address.

Getting analytics of your visitors is beneficial and important in order to maximize the full potential data that brings to a museum. Think of it this way: Visitor Sign-in Kiosk will enable the museums to have all the data and can help to thrive during the challenging and changing times.

For more, write to us at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or call 703.652.6630

Historic Site App by Museum Anywhere

Historic Sites have always been exciting as it communicates the early history of decades or even centuries. The visitors are very keen to know about the past history and it also helps the students to develop a good sense of historical knowledge.

Historic Sites have always been exciting as it communicates the early history of decades or even centuries. The visitors are very keen to know about the past history and it also helps the students to develop a good sense of historical knowledge.

But how can you make all the information and facts reachable to your visitors? Museums have now been experimenting with technology for a number of years, so you cannot miss getting a historic site app developed for your museum too.

We have developed apps for museums by keeping the key challenge in mind which is to have visitors re-live that era and experience the chronology of events with pictures, narratives and more. Historic Site App from Museum Anywhere is custom designed for your site and makes sure to keep your visitors engaged. Below we will highlight how mobile application can benefit you and your visitors. Let’s see-

  • Let your visitors get the bird’s eye-view. As visitors walk around, they will see where they are and use GPS and ibeacon technology. With the help of maps presented in the application, the visitor can make a decision whether to walk to that far end or not.
  • The app helps your visitors to be updated with the event’s page that shows upcoming events, pictures, dates and timing and detailed description.
  • With the help of push notification you can remind your visitors that you haven’t forgotten. It helps to send them notification related to the exhibitions or other events or by sending them birthday wishes.
  • The app we develop work both online as well as offline without the need for Wi-Fi or Cellular data. Visitors can download the app from App Store or Play Store for free prior to coming or as they arrive.
  • The historic site app has the analytics which will help you to know about your visitor’s details, like what they are sharing on social media and where they are spending most of their time also what they have marked as their favorites.

Are you looking for your own historic site app? Yes, give it a try. Don’t worry we will get it done for you.

For further information or queries, you can reach us out at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or 703.652.6630

Get Education App for Museum

Over the years, there has been an immense influence of technology on children and education. With the coming of smartphones, the form of education has changed and now education has been made possible in every house.

Over the years, there has been an immense influence of technology on children and education. With the coming of smartphones, the form of education has changed and now education has been made possible in every house.

Keeping the above concern in mind, we have designed education app for museum which is targeted for the school groups where the teacher can put in student lists, assign chaperones, quiz and group rankings with virtual trophies and teacher’s ability to collaborate with the Museum/Science-centers. It is helpful for both the teacher and the student.

Let’s have a look at how mobile application is beneficial for the teachers in education:

  • Teachers can create experiences for the students based on their age groups and difficulty levels.
  • 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.
  • The app includes a repository of age-appropriate questions and answers for chaperones that their group can answer.
  • 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.
  • The education app for museum can help the teachers to 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.
  • The app will facilitate the teachers to generate virtual trophies or certificates based on the performance of the students in the quiz.
  • Once the field trip is over, the teacher has the liberty to cancel the access of the chaperones.

A lot more points can be added which can help the teachers to make the learning process exciting and in managing the school trips in a better way. Are you excited to use the education app for museum or science center?

Reach us out at sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or 703.652.6630

Digital Membership Card by Museum Anywhere

In the hustle and bustle of life we all at some point on time have forgotten to carry the most important stuffs along with us and this turns out to be more frustrating when you have reached the final destination.

In the hustle and bustle of life we all at some point on time have forgotten to carry the most important stuffs along with us and this turns out to be more frustrating when you have reached the final destination. Well, this mostly happens with our cards, whether it is a credit card, debit card, driving license and so on.

Keeping this in mind, we have come up with a solution that will make the life of your members hassle-free. Your members can carry membership card in their smartphones wherever they go. They no more have to stand in long queues for gathering the ticket and can get the leverage of the membership. Sounds great, Right?

We have already built connectors to integrate with Altru, Raiser’s Edge, Raiser’s Edge NXT, Fundly CRM or other membership system. eMembership cards enhances the member’s experience.
Let’s check how your members can get benefited:

  • Members will have access to their institution in one go with just a simple click. Along with it they can also check their membership benefits.
  • Your members will get notified before/after the expiry date of the card which starts 60 days before the expiration so that they can renew it on time.
  • With the help of push notification, your members will stay updated with the upcoming events and exhibition information.
  • As soon as the card is downloaded, that museum is automatically marked as favorite on your member’s home screen so that he/she doesn’t have to scroll down again and again to search for the museum.

eMembership card is beneficial as:-

It saves time and money- eMembership Cards can save enough of time and money as you don’t have to invest in the paper printing and shipping the card to your member. Cut down on mailing expenses and go digital!

It drives value- By delivering them special messages like on their birthday or any other offers can help you to create value amongst your members.

This initiative by Museum Anywhere is a Go Green approach. So push aside paper and plastic to Go Green with our much more environmental friendly option. Give your members the ease of access and other benefits which they want.

So, if you have special requirements like Guest Passes, Caregiver Cards, Guest membership or have another membership system other than Altru or RE, let us know and we will take care of those.

We would love to hear from you. Feel free to get to us via email sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or 703.652.6630

How a mobile application is beneficial for Museums?

What is the first thing that pops up in your mind when you hear the word ‘museum’? Art and painting, structures, antique stuffs, right? It has always been a source of knowledge and information for the visitors.

What is the first thing that pops up in your mind when you hear the word ‘museum’? Art and painting, structures, antique stuffs, right? It has always been a source of knowledge and information for the visitors. As soon as you enter the museum, you would find signboards and descriptions for the visitors, but despite of having these facilities, the visitors tend to miss certain sections of the museum.

So isn’t there any solution to it wherein, it becomes easy for the audience to visit the desired section of the museum so that they don’t miss it the next time they visit?

Well, with the growing technology where smartphones have become a must, why should museums stay behind! Yes, a mobile application can help the museums to connect with their audience and not only it allows more people to connect with the museum, but there is also the potential for them to personalize their museum experience whenever and wherever they like.

Benefits of Having a Mobile App for Museum:

  • It allows your audience to experience the arts from a different perspective. With the help of audio and video guide they can clearly understand the detailed feature of any art, sculpture or portrait.
  • It enhances the user experience which means they can explore the collection when they are not in the museum.
  • By providing social media icons on the app, you can simply give the leverage to your audience to share any piece of art or portrait on the social media with their family, friend or art-lovers.
  • By providing an interactive map of the museum in the application that would help your audience to find a way which tells them about museum’s location by guiding them.
  • A mobile application enhances your brand image. So stay connected with your audience with the integration of Social Media.

There a lot more benefits of having a Mobile Application developed for Museum. Make sure that your audience stays connected and updated with your Museum activities. So if you are planning to get a mobile application developed for your Museum, we will assist you to know more about it.

We would love to hear from you. Feel free to get to us via email
sales@MuseumAnywhere.com or 703.652.6630