Örebro County Museum – the county's cultural heritage in one app
Each Swedish county has a county museum that looks after the region's history and heritage, and Örebro County Museum, in central Sweden, is the smallest of them. During the long renovation of the museum's 1960s building, it has focused on reaching people digitally – and the app plays an important part in that.
Challenge
Örebro County Museum works extensively with historic environments and landscapes, and wanted to create digital guides for different audiences and areas. They wanted a way to make historic environments accessible beyond the museum building, and to use digital guides to help visitors see places with new eyes.
The museum also wanted to promote its events and be able to create quiz trails to engage visitors.
Besides the content of the app itself, it was important for the museum to find a supplier that let them work independently with their content, rather than having to order services as they went – and that the app could be adapted to the museum's visual identity.
Solution
Örebro County Museum needed to create several digital guides themselves, at sites spread across the county, and a native app was the best solution. The app has digital guides that take users on journeys through the farming plains and Bergslagen, the forested old mining district in the north of the county. Text and audio guides help visitors discover the cultural landscape of Örebro County and the museum's touring exhibitions and attractions.
We adapted the app's design to match the museum's visual identity and website. A lot of attention went into adapting the design of the base map and creating illustrated map images with just the right feel.
The app offers:
- Digital guides that take visitors on exciting and educational walks around the county
- Engaging audio guides for selected walks
- Events for all ages
- Fun quizzes and quiz trails
- An interactive map of Örebro County that works offline
Standing by a burial mound, the guide app helps you understand and see what's in front of you with new eyes. Archaeologists see lots of things the rest of us don't.
Maria Uddén, Head of Communications, Örebro County Museum
