Roam

An AI-driven exhibition planning and orchestration tool making knowledge and culture alive and accessible for everyone

Roam is an AI guide for museum spaces, developed together with my friends over at Finster3000, a studio for exhibition design and architecture. The guide adapts to each visitor — their background, interests, the time they have — and builds a path through the exhibition accordingly.

Early Prototype

Each visitor's preferences are different. Roam knows about all the exhibition pieces and can recommend the best path for each visitor.

Each visitor’s preferences are different. Roam knows about all the exhibition pieces and can recommend the best path for each visitor.

The app allows users to navigate easily through large museum spaces, guiding them from exhibition to exhibition and from room to room.

The app allows users to navigate easily through large museum spaces, guiding them from exhibition to exhibition and from room to room.

'Roam' can interact with different devices in the space, making interaction more immersive and reducing the need for visitors to look at a phone.

The AI works from a content management system maintained by curators. It doesn’t generate information about the works, but selects and curates what the knowledge already present. That boundary keeps the guide accurate without requiring constant oversight.

We are developing different hardware devices that the AI can use to interact with the space.

Roam connects to physical devices in the space — speakers, lights, tracking hardware — so the system can respond to where visitors are and direct attention without requiring them to look at a phone. We are currently in conversations with several museums about the first installation.