An Augmented Reality Framework as a Solution to Enhance the Experience of Visiting a Museum

The technological advances converge with digital transformation in order to improve our everyday life. Cultural heritage is one of the application areas that may take advantage of this progress, for example, museums, bringing several new experiences to their visitors. However, several digital solutions return static and simple data and contents that are often uninteresting to the visitors nor promote their integration with a museum visit. This paper proposes an augmented reality framework, as a multimedia content and information transmission solution, in the indoor environment of a museum, focusing on a dynamic approach, which increases the immersion of the visitor into the visit storyline. The framework architecture was developed as a solution to a real problem, stated at the Foz Côa museum, in Portugal. An augmented reality contextualization was carried out on that museum, as well as a comparative study between two augmented reality tools, in order to determine the most appropriate to use. Also, the accuracy of the developed framework was tested, under different conditions, in the real museum environment, as an experimental result of this study