Written by Marco D’Aiuto

Muse supports curators and institutions in making informed decisions based on structured, coherent data

From Archives to Active Knowledge

One of Muse’s most interesting aspects is, as stated, her capability to enhance materials to which institutions already have access. Thus, existing photo archives that are usually regarded as simple records could become a true hub of structured and scientific knowledge.

With Muse, every artwork can be viewed as a dynamic source of information, giving curators and experts the opportunity to yield reports valuable for cataloguing and supporting authentication, while also monitoring the state of artworks over the years.
Through Muse, data can be questioned in natural speech rather than complex lists of queries.
At the same time, they are incorporated in predictive models that help restorers and curators monitoring efficiently the artwork’s state of preservation.

Our technology thus opens new, astonishing possibilities for the professionals working every day with cultural heritage. For instance, having access to series of continuous, objective, and comparable data enables interventions before visible degradations occur, and helps cutting risks and costs, preventing loss of cultural value.

The layers of data extracted with the support of Muse give new perspectives to Art analysis

Technology Designed to Blend In

We developed Muse to easily fit in preexistent workflows: institutions that have management information systems can plug it in through APIs, while those who do not yet have an advanced digital structure will still find a complete platform, ready for use.
The goal of this approach is clear: we want to make this technology serviceable without useless intricacies, while providing accessible costs and fast activation times.

This process will also continue to involve professionals at any level: Muse is designed to support curators, renovators, and experts, and help them with their tasks, without supplanting them.
Our approach is to complement human knowledge with a tool capable of offering clarity, precision, and analytical consistency. In a field where authenticity, preservation, and authorship are critical issues, being able to count on readable and structured data offers a tangible difference.
For those working on cultural heritages, this means being able to rely on a tool that helps to see more clearly, reach a better understanding, and make decisions with greater awareness.

Through Muse, the museal experience is enhanced with the inclusion of scientific based analysis

Launching from Italy

We decided to start in Italy, a country where a significant portion of artistic heritage has not yet been digitized in a well-organized manner. For us, this represents both a challenge and an opportunity.
Our ambition is to democratize access to deep knowledge of artworks, spreading it beyond a small circle of experts, while making it available to a greater number of museums and cultural institutions.

In this first phase, a network of partnered museums will accompany us through Muse’s introduction, contributing to defining new standards of analysis and preservation. We firmly believe that from here a broader change may start, bound to reach international levels.

Muse emerges as a practical tool that transforms the core of artwork preservation with technical analysis

Looking Ahead

Muse’s impact does not only affect institutions’ internal work: it also changes the way people can experience art.
When our software reveals new artwork layers, changes, and details, it allows us to experience a knowledge that normally would be partially invisible, overlooked and often not properly analized.
Thus, with our analysis, each visit to a museum or a collection is enriched, more informed, and more immersive. Art is not only something to behold, but something to explore and understand.
To us, this is one of the project’s most important aspects: making the artwork’s knowledge more accurate, and also more accessible and engaging.

With Muse, QuantumSpace takes a major step towards its goal: protect, comprehend, and enhance artistic legacy with the support of human supervised artificial intelligence.
We believe Art is not only History, it is also an alive system, made of materials, changes, contexts, and connections. Today, thanks to technology, we can start interpreting it under a new light.

Muse’s idea stems exactly from this concept: the future of preservation relies on the capability to see everything, including what was previously hidden.