Background
In 2018, to mark the 400th anniversary of the birth of the painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Everpaths began its journey in the museums of Andalusia.
Two years later, in 2020, Vodafone, in collaboration with ITSOFT, won the public tender to deploy Everpaths as the official indoor and outdoor localization platform. The goal was to map and model the region’s key public spaces and buildings.
This rollout kicked off in the cultural sector, encompassing a total of 24 museums and archaeological sites across Andalusia.
This is how EspaciosCultur@ was born—the premier mobile application for Andalusian museums.
Key Objectives for Museums
The proposed solution focused on two clear objectives:
1)To provide the public with a single, unified application that facilitates seamless indoor and outdoor navigation in public buildings, starting with museums. Additionally, the app functions as an audio guide, allowing visitors to turn their own smartphones into personal tour guides.
2)To equip museums with a comprehensive platform that enables them to manage and monitor real-time data regarding visitor and asset tracking, content administration, capacity control, and more.
Implementation and deployment
Together with Sandetel (The Andalusian Society for Telecommunications Development) and Vodafone, the project scope and a phased rollout plan were defined.
Phase One
The project launched with a pilot program at the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville and the Itálica Archaeological Site.
Phase Two
Almería
Museum of Almería
Cádiz
Baelo Claudia Archaeological Site
Museum of Cádiz
Córdoba
Medina Azahara
Cordoba Synagogue
Archaeological and Ethnological Museum of Cordoba
Granada
Fine Arts of Granada
Archaeological and Ethnological Museum of Granada
Huelva
Museum of Huelva
Jaen
Alto Guadalquivir Museum
Archaeological Museum of Úbeda
Archaeological Ensemble of Cástulo and Linares Museum
Malaga
Museum of Málaga
Seville
Carmona Archaeological Site
Museum of Arts and Traditions of Seville
Phase Three
Almeria
Alcazaba of Almeria
Cordoba
Museum of Fine Arts of Cordoba
Granada
Casa de los Tiros Museum
Jaen
Museum of Jaen
Puente Tablas Archaeological Site
Malaga
Antequera Dolmens Archaeological Site
Acinipo Archaeological Site (Ronda)
Results and impact
The pilot application was launched on iOS and Android in October 2018, coinciding with the opening of the Murillo anniversary exhibition.
Over these 6 years of experience in museums and archaeological sites, we have mapped more than 9 million m² of outdoor spaces and around 80,000 m² of indoor facilities, achieving the following milestones:
– Successful deployment across all 24 museums and sites, alongside new pilot programs in other sectors.
– Over 50,000 downloads of the EspaciosCultur@ app (powered by Everpaths) across both iOS and Android.
– Deep industry insights that allowed us to continuously adapt our application to better serve both visitors and museum administrators.
– Integration of new features, such as gamification, user surveys, and expanded language options.
– An enhanced visual experience, incorporating a wider variety of rich multimedia content, including Augmented Reality (AR) and 3D modeling.
– Include new functionalities, such as gamification, surveys, language extensions, etc.
– Improve visualization by including a greater variety of multimedia content such as augmented reality and 3D.