What Makes a Historical AI Character Believable? A Curator’s Checklist
A historical AI character can impress a visitor or it can be trusted by one. This is the checklist curators run before either goes on the gallery floor.

A historical AI character can impress a visitor or it can be trusted by one. This is the checklist curators run before either goes on the gallery floor.

A class of thirty arrives. One guide can hold the attention of maybe eight of them, in onelanguage. The other twenty-two are the problem heritage technology has never solved. Museum directors, heritage site managers, and museum education leads face a constantchallenge. School groups represent a high-value, high-demand audience, yet available staffand volunteer hours are increasingly…

And why it matters most for international visitors Museum visitor engagement loses depth, not breadth, at the points where a visitor wants to ask a question the panel does not answer, in a language the audio guide does not cover. International visitor numbers at flagship UK museums are at multi-year highs. The British Museum drew…