Magpie — the museum lab at Prairie Birdhouse · Six tools, five running today · Twin Cities, MN

What if the whole museum could talk back?

Six working AI tools for cultural institutions — five for the visit, and one for the desk everyone goes back to afterwards. Five run today. Tap any dot.

Visitors a better day out Staff hours back Both looks like visitor experience; funded by the staff time it saves Hollow dot = being built

Stop 1 — Before the visit

Docent

A front desk that never closes.

Stop 1 of 5

Small institutions answer the same fifty questions forever. Docent answers them at 9pm, from a phone, and hands the ones that need a person to a person.

Built to know things like
  • Can I get married at the mansion?
  • Is the museum wheelchair accessible?
Not built yet

The Study Collection

Every idea here connects to something already running, and each one is coloured by who it hands time back to. Tap any of them — the lines show how the next tool grows out of the last. If one of these is your nightmare (or your dream), say so.

Pick an idea.

Tap any of them above to see what it is and what it grows from.