Find the sign
A black-and-white square with the letter i hangs next to the object: a painting in a museum, a townhouse gate, a tree in the park. The address vernissio.com is always printed below it.
Stop 1 of 7 · Entrance
For museums, galleries, cities, guides and artists
Placesthat speak.
Your exhibition,on every visitor's phone.
A free audio guide to museums, monuments and Kraków. The sign next to a painting, a gate or a townhouse opens its story: in your own headphones. You start with the full story, switch the narration as you go, and children get their own path with tasks.
No app of your own to build, no audio guides to rent out. Visitors scan a sign and listen on their own phone, in their own headphones. You pay one subscription; we keep the app running.
Let's talk
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The app is free, coming soon to the stores. Already in your browser: The Kriegers' Kraków walk
Your curator approves every sentence; AI voices are always labelled
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vernissio.com · Raftsmen by the Vistula
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Click “Scan” to hear how Vernissio works
Stop 2 of 7 · How it works
Sign. Scan. Story.
It works with the app and without it. An ordinary phone camera opens a short version of the story in the browser.
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vernissio.com · Raftsmen by the Vistula
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Scan it
In the app, just point your phone at the sign, even from a few metres away. An ordinary camera reads it too and opens a short version in the browser.
Story
The story starts straight away, with the sound of the place behind it. Your phone goes back in your pocket and your eyes stay on what you are hearing about.
What the app looks like
Screenshots from the iPhone test build, in Polish.
Stop 3 of 7 · Many voices
One place.
Many voices.
The same object can be told by a curator, a character from the period or an archive source. The painting “Raftsmen by the Vistula” in three versions: the curator, a raftsman and the full app sound.
Who is telling
“We begin on the sand by the Vistula. Stryowski painted the raftsmen at a time when the railway was taking their work away. Yet what he painted is a moment of rest.”
Under the hood: the exhibition engine
Voice, the room's music, the sound of the place and effects are four separate tracks. The engine mixes them live according to what you do: listening, standing still or moving on. Like music in games, not a playlist.
Film, 1:48, Polish narration with English subtitles.
The full story and five other ways to listen
Full story
Start without choosing. The curator, period voices and the sound of the place in one path; switch the narration with one tap.
Guide
One voice, facts and context. Who, when and why, in two minutes.
Drama
Scenes and characters from the period, written from the sources.
Family
Tasks for children at the object and questions to talk about on the way.
From the sources
Quotes from documents and letters: how we know and what historians disagree about.
In silence soon
Few words, more time to take it in. A stop for a rest.
The same stop in 10 languages
Tap a language to play the same sentence. The app starts in Polish; English and more languages are coming.
Stop 4 of 7 · Everywhere
Museum, gate, street, river.
A sign can go wherever there is something to tell. One app takes you through all of these places.
On site
Museums and exhibitions
A story next to every object, in every language, with no audio guides to hand out.
Example: The Kriegers' Kraków, 9 stopsOn site
Monuments and architecture
Gate, portal, façade. The building tells you who built it and what has changed.
Example: Wawel as a barracks, 1870Route
City and walks
A route through the district, stop by stop, with a map and short links on the way.
Example: Kazimierz from the eastPeriod scene
Period scenes
Conversations reconstructed from sources, in the places where they might have happened.
Example: At the barber's, 1881On the trail
By the river and in the park
Stops on the trail play without signal too, from a pack downloaded beforehand.
Example: The Vistula below Wawel, 1900From home
Digital exhibitions
A whole exhibition at home, with the route and the sound, when you cannot get there.
Example: The Raftsmen, down the Vistula to GdańskStop 5 of 7 · One app
A hundred museums, a hundred apps, a pile of audio guides. Or one.
Today
- A separate app for every place, downloaded for a single visit.
- A rented audio guide: a queue, a deposit, crackling and headphones used by the previous visitor.
- Many apps and devices have not been updated for years, because upkeep costs money.
With Vernissio
- One app for museums, exhibitions, monuments and the city.
- Your phone and your headphones. Nothing to rent or clean.
- We keep developing it, and new features reach every place straight away.
- The museum pays a subscription instead of maintaining an app and hardware.
Stop 6 of 7 · Who it is for
For everyone with something to tell.
Museums, galleries, artists, photographers, cities and guides get a ready-made tool: printable signs, recordings made with AI under human control, many languages and paths. Without building an app of their own.
An exhibition in every visitor's phone
No app of your own and no audio guide desk. Visitors listen on their own headphones and the museum pays a subscription.
For museums
Every exhibit has a voice
A temporary exhibition, a collection, a trade fair, a classic car show. A sign next to the object instead of panels in three languages.
For exhibitionsTalk to every guest
At an opening you cannot reach everyone. Your voice can: say what you wanted to convey and what you felt while making it. Every visitor's reading matters, but they may want to hear yours too.
For artistsEyes on the photo, not the caption
The description plays in your headphones and your eyes stay on the print. You turn to the text when you have time to sink into the image.
For photographersA city that guides itself
Routes are made by residents, guides and custodians chosen by the city. Tourists listen in their own language and stay longer.
For cities
A building tells its own story
Who built it, what survived, which details matter. For building managers, parishes and architecture practices.
For heritage sites
Your story plays when you are not guiding
A guide, a collector, someone who loves their neighbourhood. Record your route once and tourists listen to it every day, in their own language.
For guidesStop 7 of 7 · Exit
Coming soon to your phone.
Free.
The full stories, the sound of each place, every voice and path are in the app. This site shows only a taste. Vernissio is coming to the App Store and Google Play, free.
FreeWorks offlinePhone in your pocketiPhone · Android later
Coming soon toApp StoreComing soon toGoogle Play
Open this page
on your phone
on your phone
Have the test version? Scan any Vernissio sign.
Stop 7 of 7 · Getting started
Your first exhibition, together with us.
We start with one exhibition we prepare together. You'll build the next ones yourself in Vernissio Studio once it launches.
- A conversation and one exhibitionOne exhibition to start, the languages and the style of the story.
- The guide talks, AI tidies up soonA recorded tour becomes a narration, and every sentence can be traced back to the recording.
- The curator approves every sentenceNothing publishes itself. Your team approves the text and the voices.
- You print the signsEvery object gets a sign with a code: a printed card or a permanent plaque.
- Works offline
- No visitor accounts, no cookies
- Image descriptions for blind visitors
- No app needed for a preview in the browser
What it costs
The subscription depends on the number of stops and languages. We run the first exhibition as a pilot: we prepare the terms and a quote, also for a grant application, after a conversation. We are looking for our first partner venues; The Kriegers' Kraków is a demonstration exhibition.
Or write directly: [email protected]
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