Every gallery, the right language.
Gallery labels, exhibit interpretation, sponsor rotation and multi-language wayfinding — accessibility-first by default.
Museums exist to make knowledge accessible. Signage has to live up to that.
A museum has three audiences on site simultaneously — repeat visitors deepening knowledge, first-timers forming impressions, tour groups moving through on a timetable. Each needs different interpretation at different depths in different languages. Hangar.Media runs multi-language gallery labels, exhibit-interpretation with audio-description for accessibility, sponsor-acknowledgement with contracted-impression tracking, and group-tour coordination signage. Integrates with visitor-app platforms (Cuseum, Bloomberg Connects, Smartify) for BLE-beacon-triggered content on visitor phones.
Built for how museums actually run.
The capabilities that matter in this sector — concrete, specific, and backed by the integrations your team already uses.
Every label in the right language for the visitor.
Gallery-label screens default to the visitor's language when their visitor-app identifies them (BLE-beacon or QR-scan) — the same label reads in English, Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin, or Japanese depending on who's standing in front of it. For non-app-using visitors, multi-language rotation cycles through the top 4-6 languages for the venue's demographic. Printed gallery labels in one language become an accessibility failure; digital labels solve it.
International visitors read the label in their language. Not English-only and hope.
- Cuseum, Bloomberg Connects, Smartify visitor-app integration
- BLE-beacon and QR-scan triggered language-switching
- 12+ language content libraries with demographic-matched defaults
- Large-type accessibility mode for low-vision visitors
Context. Story. Audio-description. In sync.
Exhibit-adjacent screens go deeper than label-text — curator-produced interpretation videos, story-context for archaeological finds, making-of content for contemporary-art installations. Audio-description for visually-impaired visitors plays on their visitor-app when BLE beacons signal they're at a specific exhibit. Accessibility isn't a toggle; it's the default.
Accessibility is the default. Not an 'accessible mode' toggle hidden in settings.
- Curator-produced interpretation video content
- Making-of content for contemporary-art installations
- Audio-description BLE-triggered on visitor-app
- Subtitle and BSL-video overlays for Deaf visitors
Patrons, benefactors, corporate sponsors — tracked and thanked.
Museum funding models depend on patrons, benefactors, corporate sponsors and grant-funders. Sponsor-acknowledgement screens in relevant galleries and foyers run patron-recognition content with contracted-impression tracking. Post-campaign, a per-sponsor impression report exports as evidence for stewardship and renewal conversations — 'your patron-level investment delivered 380,000 impressions' carries more weight than estimation.
Stewardship meetings start with evidence, not estimation.
- Per-patron and per-sponsor impression-tracking
- Named-gallery and named-exhibit patron-recognition
- Grant-funder acknowledgement (Arts Council, NEH, Lottery)
- Post-campaign PDF stewardship-evidence reports
Schools, adults, seniors, dementia-friendly — different flows.
Group-tour coordination handles the choreography of multiple tour-groups moving through shared galleries on overlapping schedules. Tour-group screens show where groups are now, where they're heading, and which galleries are scheduled for dementia-friendly relaxed-touring vs standard-educational vs adult-specific. Reduces gallery-congestion and improves group-experience quality.
Schools and seniors don't overlap in the modernist gallery. Both groups get a better tour.
- Tour-schedule management with gallery-coordination
- Dementia-friendly relaxed-touring flags per gallery per session
- School-group welcome signage at dedicated entrances
- Timed-entry ticket coordination with gallery-capacity data
WCAG AA by default. Dementia-friendly options. Real inclusion.
Museum accessibility requirements go beyond WCAG AA — dementia-friendly relaxed-tour modes, sensory-map availability for autistic visitors, hearing-loop integration in target galleries, large-type and high-contrast defaults for low-vision visitors. Every signage default meets WCAG 2.1 AA baselines; upgraded modes (AAA contrast, large-type 36pt+, audio-description) are configurable per-gallery based on visitor-profile.
Accessibility is how we measure whether the museum is doing its job.
- WCAG 2.1 AA baseline defaults (contrast, type-size, screen-reader)
- Dementia-friendly relaxed-touring content options
- Sensory-map and quiet-space wayfinding for autistic visitors
- Hearing-loop and BSL-video options for Deaf visitors
Every screen in the building.
From customer-facing walls to operational dashboards — the scenarios that make the platform worth running day-to-day.
Multi-language digital labels
Per-exhibit digital labels with BLE-triggered language-switching from visitor-app, large-type accessibility mode and audio-description support.
Interpretation videos and context
Larger-format exhibit-area screens with curator-produced interpretation content, making-of videos and story-context for archaeological and contemporary-art exhibits.
Multi-language wayfinding totems
Entrance totems with multi-language campus-wide wayfinding, today's temporary-exhibitions promotion and accessibility-routing (step-free, lift-only, quiet-route).
Sponsor and benefactor recognition
Named-gallery patron-recognition screens with patron-level acknowledgement, grant-funder logos and contracted-impression tracking for stewardship reports.
Queue-status and ticketing info
Desk-area screens with ticket-queue status, timed-entry reminders, membership promotion and visitor-app sign-up QR for enhanced accessibility experience.
Exhibition-specific branded entrance
Temporary-exhibition entrance screens with exhibition-specific branding, curator-introduction video, run-ends-in countdown and exit-survey QR overlay.
The integrations that actually matter here.
Every integration is included in every plan. These are the ones museums operators reach for first.
Building Directory
Multi-building museum wayfinding with accessibility-routing.
Learn More →Multi-Language News
Language-routed current-events content for foyer information screens.
Learn More →Museum-life, exhibition-opening and visitor-UGC social feeds.
Learn More →Tripadvisor Reviews
Tourist-audience review aggregation for visitor-services social-proof.
Learn More →iCal Feed
Event-calendar and talks-programme feed for temporary exhibition rotation.
Learn More →Common questions. Straight answers.
Which visitor-app platforms do you integrate with?
Cuseum, Bloomberg Connects, Smartify, Antenna International, Acoustiguide and custom visitor-app platforms. BLE-beacon triggering integrates natively — when a visitor's phone detects a beacon near an exhibit, their app receives the language-appropriate audio-description or deep-context content. For museums without a visitor-app, QR-scan triggering works on standard smartphones.
How does multi-language gallery labelling work at scale?
Each gallery label has content in 12+ languages stored as structured data (title, period, attribution, description, context). Default display rotates through the 4-6 most-common visitor languages for the venue (London might default to EN + FR + ES + ZH + JA + AR). Visitors with a museum-app set to their language see the label in that language on the label-screen when they approach. Managing content in 12 languages across 500 labels is the practical challenge — we provide translation workflow tooling.
How do you handle sponsor impression tracking?
Per-sponsor content runs on a scheduler tied to contracted impression counts (400,000 impressions over a year, 60,000 impressions during temporary exhibition). Per-zone visibility apportions patron-recognition by gallery, foyer, shop or visitor-services area. Post-campaign, a PDF per-sponsor performance report exports showing contracted-vs-delivered impressions — essential for major-donor stewardship and renewal conversations.
Pricing for a museum?
£5 per screen per month. A small regional museum with 30 gallery-label and wayfinding screens pays £150 per month. A major metropolitan museum with 300 screens across multiple buildings pays £1,500 per month. Multi-language content libraries, WCAG accessibility defaults, visitor-app integration and patron-stewardship reports all included. Museum-sector not a premium tier.
Adjacent sectors.
Operators in museums frequently borrow patterns and playbooks from these neighbouring verticals.
Theatres
Showtime boards, pre-show promotion and sponsor recognition.
LibrariesLibraries
Study-room availability, event programming and children's-area content.
AirportsAirports
Multi-language wayfinding and accessibility-first public-space signage.
UniversitiesUniversities
Research showcases, lecture-theatre door signage and campus wayfinding.
One price. The whole platform.
That's how we think signage should work. Content editor, screen management, and 200+ app integrations — all included from day one.