Getty Center’s State of the Art Interactive System -- GettyGuide™ -- Features SeePoint Kiosks
Los Angeles, California – Thursday, July 28, 2005 – The Getty Center recently launched GettyGuide, a state of the art interactive system designed to redefine the museum-going experience. Using next generation technology including interactive touch screen kiosks called GettyGuide stations and the Internet, the GettyGuide provides a seamless platform for art appreciation and education that happens before, during and after a visit to the Getty Center – inside the Museum as well as at home and in schools and community centers.
The GettyGuide stations were designed and manufactured by Redondo Beach, California-based SeePoint Technology.
The GettyGuide allows visitors to go online to bookmark favorite works of art and create customized tours from their personal computers before they arrive and then retrieve in-depth information on these works at the interactive GettyGuide stations located throughout the Getty Museum. GettyGuide stations are located near galleries to provide easy access to and a more in-depth exploration of the collection, individual works of art or topics of interest. A special GettyGuide Room offers multiple GettyGuide stations.
From the GettyGuide stations, visitors can view an interactive timeline of the collection, listen to commentary from curators, artists, and conservators, and watch videos on art-making techniques.
At the kiosks, you can also bookmark artists and works of art that interest you and e-mail them to friends and family, extending the museum going experience beyond the Getty Center and bringing it into homes, schools, community centers and other venues. GettyGuide stations also allow the public to “touch” objects too fragile to handle in the Getty’s on-site exhibitions and provide opportunities to closely examine works such as miniature illuminated manuscripts in ways that cannot be done with the naked eye.
Tour and school groups in particular will find GettyGuide an especially useful tool, enabling them to plan their time at the Museum, structure a visit around a specific theme or lesson, and revisit their museum-going experience at home or in the classroom.
Equipped with powerful search, save and customize functions, GettyGuide lets visitors lead the way. Based on years of research, GettyGuide was developed to respond specifically to what today’s museum-goers want and need. Information was gathered from research, observation, usability studies, and surveys of visitors to the Getty Center, a venue that attracts more than one million people annually from around the world. A broad range of visitor concerns and desires were incorporated into a sophisticated and highly integrated technology framework to help connect audiences to art. The GettyGuide is free and easy to use.
About SeePoint
SeePoint Technology is a leading provider of interactive, Internet-ready, fully integrated kiosk systems. SeePoint designs and manufactures interactive information systems that are ideal for government applications, retail services, ticketing systems, public information terminals and customer service applications.
SeePoint offers a full line of standard products with a variety of mounting options, all of which may be customized to maximize branding opportunities and integrated with a full range of peripheral devices. SeePoint also offers full service engineering, design and manufacturing services to create custom developed solutions for customers with unique project specifications.
All of SeePoint’s kiosks unite design, durability, reliability, flexibility, customizability and modularity to bring Internet based information, commerce and communication to the public.
SeePoint has provided interactive display solutions to Billabong, CBS, Consolidated Edison, Deloitte Consulting, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, Fuji, Johns Hopkins Medical Center, the National Constitution Center, Neutrogena, Pfizer, Polaris ATV, the San Francisco International Airport, the States of New Mexico and Wisconsin and the United States Air Force and Army.>
