Museum de Lakenhal

Since 2019, Zooma has been helping to build the apps for the fantastic Museum De Lakenhal in our home town of Leiden. In collaboration with the team at De Lakenhal and the designers and backend developers at Fabrique, we keep making the successful apps a little more beautiful.

Scanning Paintings

Old familiar masterpieces like the painting The Spectacle Salesman by Rembrandt, the triptych The Last Judgment by Lucas van Leyden or an abstract composition by style-artist Theo van Doesburg can be scanned with your cell phone and the app will tell you all about it.

Slow looking

The app is "slow looking" :-) The goal of the app is not to continuously entice visitors to grab the app. The goal is to offer extra depth when the visitor needs it. Meta Knol, director of Museum De Lakenhal, explains the approach and operation of the app:

There is no chronological route through the museum. We want to make the museum as welcoming and accessible as possible. Therefore, we encourage everyone to wander through the museum at their own pace and following their own interests. I am also proud to say that we do not have a set multimedia tour. We offer our audience the free L@kenhal app. That helps you find your way around. And because texts are recorded for almost all artworks, you can use the app to listen to the stories behind the artworks while looking.