This has been our biggest release yet. Here is what shipped.
Richer Museum Pages
Until now, we only pulled visitor information from a museum's homepage. That is like judging a restaurant by its front door. The real details — opening hours, ticket prices, accessibility features — often live on dedicated pages like /visit, /tickets, and /accessibility.
We now look beyond the homepage and pull structured data from these deeper pages too. If a museum publishes its hours on a /plan-your-visit page instead of the homepage, we find it now.
The result: richer museum profiles from the same set of museums, without anyone lifting a finger.
Exhibition Tracking
Exhibitions are now first-class data on Mooseum. When you log a museum visit, you will see a list of current and permanent exhibitions at that museum. Check the ones you visited. It is optional — you can still log a visit without tagging exhibitions — but it adds a layer of detail to your museum history that did not exist before.
We also added pricing to exhibitions. If a special exhibition has its own ticket price, it shows up right on the exhibition card alongside the dates and description.
The numbers: 609 exhibitions across 66 museums, with 57 currently on view and 517 permanent collections. That coverage will keep growing as we bring in more museums.
Audio Player, Rebuilt
The audio player used to only understand tour waypoints. Every track in the playlist was a waypoint, and the code assumed it. We rebuilt the playlist system to support different types of audio — tour waypoints, museum descriptions, and more to come.
This means the museum description audio — the narrated introduction you hear on museum pages — now plays through the same global player as tour audio. Press play on a description, and it appears in your playlist alongside tour tracks. No more separate players fighting for control.
For museums that do not have description audio yet, we added a request button. Logged-in users can request an audio guide, and we use that signal to prioritize which museums to record next.
Faster Accessibility Data
The accessibility section on museum pages — wheelchair access, audio guides, sign language tours, and more — was already there. But it was loading slowly because of how the data was stored behind the scenes.
We moved accessibility into a faster, more permanent home. Same information, noticeably quicker page loads, and the data is now more resilient.
If you want to try the new exhibition tracking, log a visit to a museum that has exhibition data and see the tagging flow in action. And as always, if you spot something off — wrong hours, missing exhibitions, broken links — we want to know.