Changing the quality of cultural experience with 5G

Museums are vital centers of culture, education, and creativity. Whether you’re visiting an exhibition on Ancient Greece or marveling at Egyptian artworks from the Pharaonic period, technology can help us appreciate history’s many achievements by enhancing our rich experience of history. In the past, some people might have felt frustrated by a trip to a museum: endless rooms filled with piece after piece, but not enough information to understand their meaning, context, and symbolism. Today, technology is transforming the museum sector, and with the deployment of 5G, state-of-the-art tools will allow all generations to view exhibitions from a new perspective.

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Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) in Museums

Today, virtual reality installations are mainly integrated in classrooms or specific environments. Moreover, when it comes to augmented reality software, the demand for available bandwidth is huge. 5G will soon provide museums with space to deploy virtual and augmented reality tools. These tools will not only be available in certain areas of a museum or gallery, but will be available anywhere there is sufficient bandwidth. This will enrich the quality of the cultural experience of visitors from the moment they enter the museum to the moment they leave.

Not only can virtual reality enhance the visitor experience, but it can also help museum professionals connect with each other on a deeper level. If a leading expert specializing in a certain historical period is working at an institution on the other side of the world, distance is no longer a barrier. Technology can give them access to the latest visuals of a specific artwork and provide valuable factual insights to support the museum's efforts to preserve and curate artwork. 5G technology will facilitate closer collaboration among museum professionals around the world to better preserve historical and cultural heritage.

Museums increasingly use IoT

Digital signage can be deployed throughout the museum, and museum staff can change the content displayed on the digital signage system with just a few swipes on their smart devices. The tool can be used for visitor notifications, such as promoting the latest internal exhibitions, visiting schedules and closing times.

Digital signage can also change the displayed language based on the data received from tourists’ mobile phones to bridge cultural gaps and enhance a unified cultural experience.

Big data collection

The future of data analytics should not be underestimated. With the rise of low-latency, high-speed 5G deployments, it will be possible to capture more data than ever before. As this technology is implemented, managers will be able to track movement through personal data from connected devices to understand how long visitors spend in a particular exhibit or space, thereby understanding which works best capture visitors’ attention.

future

The application of technology will allow visitors to relive the historical moments defined by the artworks on display, while 5G technology will help bridge cultural divides and provide invaluable historical access to people of all backgrounds, wherever they are in the world.