The National Museum of Montenegro presented a new type of presentation of museum settings through interactive tours that were made in cooperation with the Naratour mobile application team. The application enables the exploration of the museum through gamification, so visitors become the protagonists of stories by playing roles, as fictitious or historical characters, solving puzzles and clues while exploring the museum’s settings and finding its stories. The story is played independently or in a team, and is started by scanning the QR code at the entrance to the museums. It is available in Montenegrin and English. Interactive tours were made for the Ethnographic Museum and the Njegoš Museum – Billiards, and in the coming period they will be made for other museum units as well.

With this type of presentation, the National Museum wants to attract a new, younger and digitally profiled audience and create a new interpretation of the museum’s permanent installations, making the visit more interesting. They enable the unique experience of exploring museums in a completely new way, and their added value is that they also serve as a guide through museums. Interactive tours make museums attractive to a wider range of users, including children and young people who are not usually interested in history and art.

Challenges come in the form of puzzles, and can only be solved by visual or physical interaction with the exhibit and its surroundings, which means the visitor must be inside the museum. Each successfully solved challenge reveals interesting educational facts about museum settings.

In addition, the National Museum of Montenegro produced audio guides for all museum units: Njegoš Museum – Billiards, King Nikola Museum, Ethnographic Museum, History Museum – permanent exhibition, Art Museum, Njegoš Mausoleum and Njegoš Birth House, in Montenegrin, English and French language. The guides are adapted for people with impaired hearing and vision, as they also contain a text part that accompanies the audio format.

Interactive tours and audio guides are the result of cooperation between the National Museum of Montenegro and the Croatian company Naratour from Rijeka, which already successfully cooperates with over 30 museums and galleries in the region, and won the main prize of the Zagreb Innovation Center ZICER.

The application is available for free and can be used offline.