Adapt your interpretation
Existing wall text, tour scripts, catalog copy, and docent notes are a strong starting point.
Museum audio guide system
A museum audio guide with no app and no hardware.
Give every visitor an audio guide for your museum without an app or a rental desk. They call a number you display in the gallery, hear your interpretation, and move at their own pace.
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In a nutshell
Visitors already carry the device they need.
A museum audio guide system from VoxiGuide replaces both the download-an-app problem and the cost of renting headsets. Visitors dial a published number and hear your guide content for each exhibit, room, or theme.
Pew Research Center's 2025 Mobile Fact Sheet reports that 91% of U.S. adults own a smartphone, including 78% of adults aged 65 and older who own a smartphone. Source
- Visitors call a number you display by the entrance or beside exhibits, then listen.
- No app to download and no headsets to rent, charge, or sanitize.
- Works on any phone, which reaches older visitors, school groups, and international guests.
- You approve all content and decide which sponsor categories, if any, are allowed.
- Run it sponsor-funded and free to the museum, or ad-free on a subscription.
Why phone-based guides
Audio guides for museums should not create another queue.
Museum apps ask visitors to download something before they can listen. Rented headset hardware works, but it means a device desk, ongoing cleaning, breakages, and a real line in the budget.
A phone-based guide avoids both problems. There is no museum audio guide equipment to buy or maintain, no charging overnight, and no rental queue at opening time.
What changes
- No app-store funnel before visitors can hear the first stop.
- No headsets to clean, charge, repair, replace, or distribute.
- No device desk at opening time or bottleneck for school groups.
- One phone number can support exhibits, rooms, themes, and languages.
How it works
From gallery sign to interpretation in four steps.
VoxiGuide is built around one action visitors already understand: calling a number.
Structure the guide
VoxiGuide organizes content by exhibit, room, theme, language, or visitor route.
Publish the number
Display the number on labels, signage, tickets, maps, QR codes, and your visit page.
Visitors call and listen
Guests hear your interpretation from their own phones and move at their own pace.
Museum controls
- You approve every piece of guide content before launch.
- You decide whether sponsor messages appear at all.
- You define sponsor category exclusions for cultural settings.
- Sponsor messages stay short and clearly separated from interpretation.
Curatorial control
Keep the guide on tone for your collection.
Museums hold their content to a high standard, and the guide should match it. You approve the audio content and decide which sponsor categories, if any, fit your institution.
If your setting rules out advertising entirely, the ad-free subscription keeps the experience free of sponsor messages.
Built for galleries of every size
Use one museum audio guide model across rooms, exhibits, and routes.
Single-room galleries
Publish one number and let visitors choose the works or themes they want to hear.
Multi-room museums
Structure audio by room, floor, collection, exhibit, or visitor route.
Groups and older guests
Reach visitors who may not want to install an app or borrow a headset.
Temporary exhibitions
Add an audio layer for limited-run shows without a new app build.
What it costs
Sponsor-funded or ad-free. Your museum chooses.
On the sponsor-funded plan, short approved messages cover the cost and the guide is free to the museum. On the venue-funded plan, your museum pays a subscription and no sponsor messages play.
Plan paths
- Sponsor-funded: free to the museum, with approved sponsor messages.
- Venue-funded: ad-free subscription scoped to your guide.
- Visitor access: standard call rates may apply depending on the phone plan and market.
FAQ
Common questions about museum audio guides.
What is a museum audio guide system?
It is a way to give visitors guided audio about your exhibits. With VoxiGuide, visitors call a phone number and listen, so there is no app to download and no headset to rent.
Do visitors need to download an app?
No. They call a number you display in the museum and listen on their own phone.
Do we need to buy audio guide equipment?
No. There is no hardware to purchase, charge, or maintain, and no rental desk to staff.
Can we keep control of the content?
Yes. You approve all audio content and decide whether any sponsor messages appear and in which categories.
Can the guide work in more than one language?
VoxiGuide supports multilingual delivery for venues. Confirm the exact languages and routing for your museum with the team before publishing specific claims.
Give every visitor an audio guide for your museum.
Tell us about your exhibits, visitor flow, languages, and sponsor policy. We will outline a phone-based guide setup for your museum.