Give visitors a way to hear the collection
A visitor scans a code or types a short address on their own phone. No app, no hardware, nothing to hand out at the door.
For the visitor
Scan or type
A QR code by the work, or a short address typed off a plaque when a camera will not scan.
Choose a style and a length
Several styles per artwork, each from one to three minutes.
Listen and move on
The piece keeps playing on the lock screen while the visitor walks to the next work; a silenced phone still plays it.
For the curator
Import from a browser
Drop a folder of images and a spreadsheet of titles, artists and dates. No SSH, no developer needed.
A second import adds
Delivering more images never replaces what is already in the collection.
Take a work off display, or withdraw it
Off display keeps a loaned work in the catalogue; withdrawing removes it and stops its shared links too.
A private note guides the AI
Write guidance for the AI that visitors never see — it shapes the suggestions and the piece, never the label.
Plaques keep working
A printed QR code keeps resolving even after a title or description is edited.
Invite colleagues
Give colleagues access to your venue's own collection without making them a global administrator.
Style, and the same-image guarantee
The same artwork, in the same style, gives the same piece for a given version of the engine — what a visitor hears today is what the next visitor hears tomorrow, unless the engine itself is updated.
Accessibility, stated carefully
A piece of music made from an artwork is not a substitute for its description, and Timbria does not present it as one. It is one more way in for a visitor with partial sight, no sight, or simply a different way of taking in a room.
The European Accessibility Act does not require a musical interpretation of an artwork; Timbria is offered alongside your existing description, not instead of it.
Research, and its limits
Published research associates sound with visitor engagement and links music to how long a visitor lingers. No study of Timbria itself exists yet.
What it takes
A folder of images and a spreadsheet. A member of staff to import the collection and print plaques. Nothing installed on site.
Rights
You supply images you hold the rights to use. Timbria uses them to make the music and to show your works to your visitors. Your venue receives a licence to use the music in the venue and online for non-commercial purposes; commercial licences are available on request.
Where we are
Timbria is working today, with museum collections live. If you would like it in your venue, become a partner.
Become a partnerSend us one artwork
Send one image from your collection and we will show you what Timbria makes of it — free, and with no commitment.