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Constellation
Exhibit management made easy
Constellation is built by the museum community, for the community. It's free and open source—you'll never pay, now or in the future.Create
Deploy digital signage, touchscreen kiosks, word clouds, voting stations, and more with our easy-to-use apps.
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Get the real-time status of every component in a gallery, create automated schedules, and track maintenance status.
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Collect automated analytics to gauge gallery interaction. See real-time usage throughout a gallery. Build custom tools to empower evaluators.
Learn moreAn app for every need
Easy
- Designed for non-technical users, such as educators and curators.
- Automatically optimize media for maximum performance.
Accessible
- Provide content in one, two, or many languages.
- Includes built-in text size scaling.
Customizable
- Adjust each app's appearance to match your exhibition.
- Change the interactive at the touch of a button.
InfoStation
Create touchscreen interactives that enable visitors to explore text, view images, and watch videos.
Media Player
Simple, yet powerful digital signage. Show an image, play a video, or create playlists of both.
Timeline Explorer
Create interactive touchscreen timelines from a spreadsheet.
Media Browser
Create collections of videos and images that visitors can explore.
Word Cloud
Create and display interactive word clouds that visitors can add to throughout the day.
Timelapse Viewer
Scroll through sequences of images using one of several control schemes.
Voting Kiosk
Collect survey data with this simple, one-question kiosk. Rotate questions over time to collect more feedback.
DMX Control
Configure and control theatrical lighting using the DMX protocol.
Manage your gallery with the click of a button
Get real-time status updates
- Quickly see if a component is offline
- Be alerted to projector issues as soon as they occur
- Wake, sleep, or restart individual components
Schedule automatic actions
- Wake and sleep PCs, displays, and projectors
- Change digital signage and other exhibit elements
- Manage recurring or one-off schedules
Track exhibit maintenance
- Sync maintenance notes for each component
- Track component status
- Assign tasks to technicians
- Include components that are not part of Constellation
Track better. Evaluate more.
Create custom interfaces for evaluation
- Build custom interfaces to aid evaluators and surveys
- Automatically sync data to Control Server
- Supports counters, sliders, timers, free-response, and more
Collect visitor feedback automatically
- Simple, one-click voting system for touchscreens
- Enter custom questions, buttons, etc.
- Change the question remotely at the click of a button
Build something new.
Add your own app to Constellation
- Connect your own browser-based app to Constellation with our custom module
- Use the simple API to connect an app written in Java, Python, .NET, or others