The UNICHE Experience Toolkit
UNICHE brings together a suite of powerful, intuitive digital solutions designed to help cultural organisations create, deliver, and enhance interactive heritage experiences. Each solution addresses a real need in the cultural sector—from storytelling and virtual exhibitions to AI-assisted curation and visitor engagement insights. Together, they form a flexible ecosystem that institutions can adopt as a full platform or integrate gradually according to their needs.
UNICHE Platform (End-User Apps, Authoring Environment & Academy)
A unified, no-code platform enabling users to design, deploy, and evaluate cultural heritage experiences without technical expertise. It includes authoring tools, content management, and training resources.
UNICHE Visitor Experience Evaluation Tool
The Visitor Experience Evaluation Tool helps institutions understand how audiences interact with their content. It collects and analyses visitor behaviours, preferences, and engagement patterns, presenting them through accessible dashboards. This insight allows museums and cultural sites to continually refine their exhibitions and produce experiences that resonate more deeply with diverse audiences.
Pilot Applications
The Pilot Applications are real-world apps developed within the UNICHE pilots to demonstrate the capabilities of the ecosystem in authentic settings. They deliver interactive stories, AR and VR scenes, and educational experiences. These applications serve not only as functional tools but also as practical examples of how cultural organisations can use the UNICHE toolkit to create meaningful digital interactions.
Mobile Tour Guide
The Mobile Tour Guide is a modern, AI-enhanced companion app for museums and cultural destinations. It offers personalised tours, intuitive navigation, and rich multimedia storytelling across text, audio, and augmented reality. By adapting its content to each visitor’s interests, background, and pace, it transforms the traditional museum visit into a more engaging and accessible journey. Institutions can also customise or white-label the app to match their identity.
MuseotekBox
MuseotekBox is a hybrid educational kit that blends physical objects with digital learning experiences. Designed for schools, libraries, and youth programmes, it uses physical artefacts such as cards or replicas in combination with digital content created through a simple online editor. This hands-on, playful approach helps young audiences connect with cultural heritage in a way that is both tangible and imaginative.
AI Curator Assistant
The AI Curator Assistant is a generative AI tool that supports cultural professionals in researching, planning, and developing exhibitions. It helps uncover connections between objects, collections, and themes, and can propose narratives or educational pathways tailored to curatorial goals. Integrated with heritage repositories and catalogues, it offers a faster and more insightful way to build compelling cultural experiences.
Story Maker & Story Player
Story Maker and Story Player form a complete storytelling solution. Story Maker allows non-technical users to craft multimedia narratives using ready-made layouts, structured templates, and drag-and-drop tools. These stories can then be delivered through Story Player, a user-friendly viewer that works across devices and supports multilingual and multimodal formats. Together, they enable institutions to create and publish interactive stories with ease.
XR-360 SpaceDesigner & AR/VR Application
The XR-360 SpaceDesigner and its companion AR/VR application provide a powerful way to design immersive environments and digital exhibitions. Users can build virtual scenes, enhance real-world spaces with AR overlays, and collaborate in shared XR environments—all without needing advanced technical skills. This solution makes it possible to create fully immersive cultural experiences that bring heritage to life in new and engaging ways.
VT Maker & Presenter
The Virtual Tour Maker & Presenter allows cultural organisations to easily create and share immersive virtual tours of their spaces. With simple tools for building digital twins using 360° images, floor plans, and multimedia hotspots, institutions can publish engaging tours that visitors explore seamlessly online or on mobile devices. This solution extends access beyond physical walls and enhances both remote and onsite experiences.
Visitor profiling model
The Visitor Profiling Model enables institutions to tailor experiences to different types of audiences. By identifying patterns in behaviour and preferences, it supports personalised storytelling, targeted recommendations, and more inclusive design approaches that respond to different learning styles and interests.
Intelligent retrieval AI model
The Intelligent Retrieval Model improves how cultural organisations discover and reuse digital heritage assets. It offers advanced search, content analysis, and recommendation capabilities, helping users find relevant objects, metadata, and relationships across large collections. This model enhances interoperability and supports the creation of richer, more informed experiences.
AI-based conversational agent
The Conversational Agent enables natural, interactive dialogue with visitors, students, and online audiences. It can explain heritage topics, guide users through exhibitions, answer questions, and adapt responses to different knowledge levels. It enriches engagement while reducing the need for constant staff presence.
Advanced APIs
The UNICHE APIs allow developers and institutions to access and integrate cultural heritage content from the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage. These APIs ensure smooth interoperability between systems, making it easy to reuse cultural assets across different applications, platforms, and experiences.
UNICHE XR Exhibition Prototyper
The UNICHE XR Exhibition Prototyper is a design tool that allows cultural organisations to quickly envision and test immersive exhibition concepts in virtual reality or augmented reality. It enables curators, designers, and educators to layout spaces, experiment with digital objects, and explore visitor pathways in a fully interactive 3D environment—long before any physical installation is built. By offering a fast, low-cost way to prototype ideas, the tool helps teams refine their concepts, collaborate more effectively, and ensure that XR experiences are engaging, coherent, and ready for public deployment.