In a rapidly evolving cultural landscape, museums and heritage organisations are seeking new ways to engage audiences, interpret collections, and create meaningful visitor experiences. C&T’s Prospero platform offers museums, galleries, and heritage sites a highly versatile digital tool that enhances interpretation, personalisation, and interactivity — particularly for younger, digitally-native audiences.

At its core, Prospero allows museums to build curated, interactive tours of their collections and exhibitions. Using its unique Smartscripts system, curators and educators can design flexible, branching narratives that guide visitors through exhibits, embedding multimedia content, stories, and choices along the way. Visitors can engage with objects through video, audio, quizzes, and interactive media on their own devices, deepening their understanding and encouraging active participation rather than passive observation.

Prospero's design supports both self-guided and staff-facilitated tours, making it adaptable to different scales of operation. For smaller institutions without the resources for extensive

live tour provision, Prospero offers a highly professional, scalable alternative. For larger institutions, it supplements physical guides, allowing for personalised and diverse learning pathways that reflect different interests, languages, or levels of prior knowledge.

One of Prospero’s most powerful functions for heritage sites is its GPS integration. Museums with multiple locations, open-air heritage attractions, or city-based heritage trails can create digital walks that trigger content based on visitors' physical location. As visitors move through a site, GPS triggers activate layers of narrative, historical context, and creative interpretation, transforming the landscape into a live, interactive learning experience. This functionality has already been successfully deployed by C&T across public art trails, city-wide storytelling projects, and heritage education programmes.

For example, a visitor to a historic battlefield might receive contextualised audio accounts as they move through key locations, or explore augmented timelines and personal testimonies from those who lived through historic events. In urban heritage contexts, GPS-based walks can allow cities to reveal hidden stories and previously untold narratives to both local residents and tourists.

Prospero is particularly valuable in engaging young audiences, who often expect interactive, digital elements as part of their cultural experiences. The platform’s compatibility with smartphones and tablets allows museums to meet younger visitors where they already are — on their personal devices. Its gamified elements, branching pathways, and multimedia capabilities create a sense of play, discovery, and co-creation that resonates with children, teenagers, and young adults alike.

Crucially, Prospero is designed for accessibility and flexibility. Museums can design experiences that are inclusive for visitors with different needs, including simplified pathways for younger children, captioned video content, and sensory-sensitive options. This supports museums in widening access and ensuring that all visitors, regardless of age or ability, can engage meaningfully with collections.

In an increasingly competitive visitor economy, Prospero allows museums and heritage organisations to offer high-quality, digitally-enhanced experiences without the prohibitive costs of proprietary app development. Because Prospero is browser-based, there is no need for visitors to download large apps or carry specific hardware. Institutions can rapidly develop, update, and adapt tours as new collections arrive, exhibitions change, or visitor interests evolve.

In short, Prospero equips museums and heritage organisations with a powerful, flexible, and cost-effective tool for 21st-century engagement — combining the richness of collections with the creative power of interactive storytelling, spatial navigation, and digital participation