In this work we propose an integrated system to manage and enhance the experience of visiting museums for the general public, providing a more comfortable, intelligent and interactive way to visit multiple museums without the need for several mobile applications, whilst giving a quick tool to museum curators that allows them to easily manage and extend the content displayed to each individual visitor. For that purpose, our approach was to develop a single mobile Application, a module to an open-source Content Management System (CMS), namely Drupal 8, and combine them with location information that was inferred by the capture of BLE’s signals (beacons). The proposed prototype features an Android application that will be used by the visitor where they can access the available information about several museums, and combined with BLE’s, will display information about the museum and spaces of the museum where the visitor is (or is planning to visit). This application gives the option to choose from several languages that are provided and managed by each Museum. This management of the museum content to be made available to the Android application is performed using a web-based system, that is a Drupal 8 custom module, and is used by Museums curators, turning this task much simpler.

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