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Audio guides for museums

What we do

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Statues Also Breathe, Prune Nourry. Photo: MACAAL

Audio guide to the permanent collection

Seven Contours, One Collection

Nine works and the seven ideas that connect them, about an hour. Free with your ticket.

Start the tour

Keep the sound low in the galleries, or use headphones.

The route

1

Statues Also Breathe

Prune Nourry. One hundred and eight pairs of hands

ContourDecolonize
2

Sarah Forbes, Dear Series

Ayana V. Jackson. A girl given to a naval officer in 1850

ContourTranscribe
3

Imdyazen

M'barek Bouhchichi. Poems engraved on copper sticks

Six more stops follow. The guide remembers where you are if you close it.

MACAAL's guide in Marrakech, made with Sonoreum. Our first partner.

Stop 1 of 9

Prune Nourry

Statues Also Breathe

One hundred and eight pairs of hands

0:122:30
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What we do

MACAAL
A guide made for your venue, with your branding.
In the languages you need.
Visitors scan a QR code and the guide opens on their phone. No app needed.
They follow the route your team chose, stop by stop.

Hear one stop

MACAAL in Marrakech is our first partner. This is a stop of its guide, as visitors hear it.

Statues Also Breathe by Prune Nourry: rows of terracotta heads on black stools fill MACAAL's white atrium.
Prune Nourry, Statues Also Breathe. Photo: MACAAL

Seven Contours, One Collection · MACAAL, Marrakech · Stop 1 of 9

Statues Also Breathe

Prune Nourry

0:002:04

Let's start here, with one hundred and eight clay heads, each one shaped by many hands. Look across the Atrium first. The figures read as a group, a silent assembly in the same fired earth tone, roughly the same scale. Now walk closer. The differences are in the surfaces: a thumb dragged across a brow, fingers pressed into a cheek.

A small group of portraits started this project. A hundred and eight ended up here. Prune Nourry didn't make them alone. Students from the Obafemi Awolowo University at Ile-Ife in Nigeria worked alongside women potters, in solidarity with the mothers and families of the Chibok girls.

Those girls were two hundred and seventy-six students taken by Boko Haram from their school in northeastern Nigeria in April two thousand and fourteen. Some escaped. Ten years later, dozens are still missing. Their families are still waiting.

The tradition they worked inside is centuries old. Ile-Ife was the center of Yoruba civilization, and its artists made terracotta heads long before outsiders wrote about them, heads built to hold memory. Nourry worked with that tradition, in the community it belongs to.

Monuments are usually decided above people's heads, about them rather than with them. This one was made with them. The Catharsis Arts Foundation, which Nourry co-founded in New York, exists to keep that kind of making alive.

Look at the head nearest to you. Someone pressed their thumbs into it. You can still see where.

How we make your guide

1We start from your knowledge: documents, notes, images and maps.

2Our AI drafts and voices the guide from it, in your visitors' languages.

3You keep the last word: your team edits and approves every line before a visitor hears it.

What you get

Studio, where your team reviews, edits and approves the guide.

Up to ten languages from one QR code, each with its own voice: English, Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and more.

The guide in your logo, colors and type. No app, no handset.

Who listens, to what and for how long, with a monthly report.

Free for your visitors, with the ticket.

Your colleagues on the same tour, as admins, editors or viewers.

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Pricing

Your audio guide

From $199 a month

$0 upfront. We set up your first tour with you, and your team approves every line. You start paying the day your tour goes live.

Pricing details

Questions

How quickly can we launch, and what do you need from us?

Share what you already have: wall texts, notes, images, maps. Within a few days you get a first draft of the tour to review. Once your team has approved it, we set it up with you and send the QR sign for your entrance.

How do you make sure nothing wrong is said?

Every stop is drafted from your own material, checked against it, and approved by your team before it's published.

Does anything need installing at the venue?

Nothing to install, nothing to buy. Visitors scan the QR code at your entrance and the guide opens in their phone's browser, with no app and no account. All it needs is a mobile signal or your visitor Wi-Fi.

Is it right for a small venue or a single exhibition?

Yes, that's who it's for. A traditional guide costs so much that most small museums never get one. With Sonoreum you can start with a single room or a temporary show, from $199 a month, and add stops later.

What happens to visitor data?

Visitors never create an account or give us a name or email, so the guide doesn't know who they are. We only record what they listen to, which feeds your dashboard and monthly report. We never sell it or share it.