MAP’s Interactive Kiosk: One Launcher for Every Exhibition
A touch screen kiosk launcher for the Museum of Art and Photography, turning a wall of large LED screens into a branded menu of digital exhibitions that staff can manage themselves.
Project Overview
A great museum is judged partly by how easily people can explore it. The Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), a private art museum in Bengaluru that opened in February 2023 and holds a collection of Indian art, photography, textiles, craft, and design spanning the twelfth century to today, wanted its digital exhibition section to feel as effortless as its galleries. ViitorX built the launcher application at the heart of that section: a touch screen kiosk that runs on MAP’s large LED screens and presents every locally installed app as its own exhibition in a single, intuitive menu. A visitor walks up, taps a tile, and the right experience opens. A compact two-person team delivered it over three months.
Objective
MAP needed one piece of software to tie its digital exhibitions together and stay easy for staff to run. The launcher had to:
- Run on the museum’s large LED screens as a reliable interactive kiosk.
- Present each installed application as a distinct exhibition in a clear, tappable menu.
- Let administrative staff add, update, or remove applications without developer help.
- Hold to MAP’s branding, from colours to icons, across every screen.
- Include an in-app iFrame so visitors could reach key MAP web content without leaving the kiosk.
Challenges
A launcher that sits in front of the public has to be both invisible and dependable:
- It had to integrate cleanly with the museum’s existing hardware and the locally installed apps it would launch.
- The interface needed to be intuitive enough for any visitor to use a touch screen kiosk with no instructions.
- Staff needed real control over content, which meant a management layer that was powerful yet simple.
- Embedding live MAP websites through an in-app iFrame had to feel seamless, not like leaving the experience.
Solutions
We built the launcher as a calm, branded shell around MAP’s experiences. It includes:
- An intuitive launcher built on ElectronJS: Built on ElectronJS with an HTML, CSS, and Node stack, the kiosk software runs MAP’s locally installed apps across its large LED screens, turning each interactive display into a single touch doorway to an exhibition.
- Exhibitions as menu tiles: Every application appears as its own exhibition in the menu, so visitors browse and switch between them by touch, the way they would move between galleries.
- An admin panel for staff: A simple management layer lets MAP’s team add, update, and remove applications and apply the museum’s branding colours and icons, with no code required.
- An in-app iFrame: Important MAP websites open inside the digital kiosk itself, giving visitors web content without breaking the experience.
Why a Launcher Ties It All Together
Individual exhibits are only half the story. Without a launcher, a museum is left juggling a pile of separate apps, each started by hand, none of them branded the same way. A single interactive kiosk solves that quietly: it gives visitors one familiar front door to every digital exhibition, and it gives staff one place to manage what appears. The visitor never thinks about the software, which is exactly the point, and the museum can refresh its offering without calling a developer every time. That is what makes a launcher more valuable than any single app it opens.
Results & Impact
- Delivered the launcher application at the centre of MAP’s digital exhibition section.
- Turned MAP’s large LED screens into a single, branded interactive kiosk.
- Presented each locally installed app as its own exhibition in an intuitive touch menu.
- Gave staff an admin panel to add, update, and remove applications without developer help.
- Embedded key MAP websites through an in-app iFrame for a seamless digital kiosk experience.
- Built on ElectronJS and delivered by a two-person team over three months.
Conclusion
The best museum technology is the kind visitors never notice. By building MAP’s launcher application, ViitorX gave the Museum of Art and Photography a touch screen kiosk that makes its digital exhibitions feel like one coherent space, and gives its staff the control to keep that space fresh. It is a quiet piece of kiosk software doing a loud job: making a forward-thinking museum easy to explore.
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