About this app

With M HKA Ensembles, we are taking our first publicly visible steps into the digital landscape. Our goal is to use new media to frame artworks even better than we have been able to do so far.

The application was entirely developed within the museum and is accessible as a web application via all common smartphone and tablet models. QR markers (these are 2D barcodes) are placed next to the artworks so that information can be quickly retrieved.

Each artwork includes not only multilingual basic information but also numerous multimedia extras. For example, in A Rua, the artists explain their work themselves through filmed interviews. We hope to continue this approach in the future, with each exhibition featuring an original and tailored digital perspective.

We have chosen not to provide mobile devices, but instead to offer internet access in the form of a completely renewed robust wifi network, freely accessible to everyone throughout the museum. With this network, the museum aims to continue positioning itself as an open social space. At the same time, it also allows tourists to use the application without having to use their expensive roaming.

The mobile public application is not an island in itself, but is part of a larger digital whole. The content comes directly from the ensemble database, an internally widely supported working tool that allows for creating various layers of meaning around the artworks. Production, curators, mediation (but also externals): everyone contributes. In this way, knowledge from within the museum can flow into the halls with 1 click.

M HKA is determined to continue and expand this exercise in transparency with enthusiasm in the coming years. For all your questions: contact the M HKA Ensembles team.