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Lemwerder, Germany, 29 October 2026 – MuseumsAtlas, the independent museum guide behind museumsatlas.com, turns every museum visit into an entry in your own passport: with the new museum passport, users get a stamp for every museum they have been to. The passport is available now on the website and in the app for iPhone and Android – free of charge, with no ads and no subscription.

Unlike collector passes run by individual cities, regions or museum networks, the museum passport works internationally. Stamps can be collected at any of the almost 28,000 museums in 20 countries listed in MuseumsAtlas – from small local history museums to the Louvre, from the Rijksmuseum to the Prado. With every new country added to the atlas, the passport grows too.

“Many people visit countless museums, on their travels and in everyday life, but hardly anyone keeps track of where they have been. The museum passport is a personal travel diary for museums – whether you are exploring the next town or travelling right across Europe,” says Christoph Hein, founder of MuseumsAtlas.

A stamp for every museum

Stamps are collected on site: at the museum, visitors simply scan the museum’s QR code with their phone camera – the app then asks whether to check in, and the stamp goes into the passport with the museum’s name, location and date. Where there is no poster, the app can offer the stamp as soon as you are standing in front of the museum. Every museum has its own stamp, and every day of a visit earns a new one. Museums create the QR code poster themselves, free of charge, on museumsatlas.com.

Ten levels from “First Step” to “Museum Legend”

Every museum takes you up a level: ten levels lead from “First Step” after the first museum, via “Explorer” and “Museum Buff”, to “Museum Legend” at 150 museums. Each level reached appears as a badge. The passport itself can be leafed through like a real passport, and it shows the countries and cities you have visited and all your museums on a map.

Free, with one account on all your devices

All you need is a free MuseumsAtlas account, created with your email address – no password required. The passport is then the same on the website and in the app, and your stamps are available on all your devices. Anyone who wants to look around first can view a sample passport.

The website and app are available in 13 languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.

About MuseumsAtlas

MuseumsAtlas (museumsatlas.com) is an independent museum guide that brings museums around the world together on one map – with opening hours, admission prices, exhibitions, accessibility and tips for families. The website and app are free, ad-free and multilingual.

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Lemwerder, Germany, 15 October 2026 – MuseumsAtlas, the independent museum guide behind museumsatlas.com, is now available as a free app for iPhone and iPad on the App Store. The app brings together more than 15,000 museums in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Denmark and the Czech Republic on one map – with everything you need to plan a museum visit: opening hours including seasonal times and closing days, admission prices and discounts, permanent and temporary exhibitions, directions and accessibility.

“Anyone who wants to visit a museum on the spur of the moment tends to ask the same questions: What’s open right now, how much is admission, and can I get in easily with a wheelchair or a pushchair? MuseumsAtlas answers them at a glance – at home as well as on the go,” says Christoph Hein, founder of MuseumsAtlas.

Find the right museum in seconds

At the heart of the app is a map for exploring museums around your current location or at your travel destination. Search by museum, city or topic, sorting by distance (“Nearby”) and quick filters such as “Open now” or “Free admission” make spontaneous decisions easy. Tapping a point on the map shows a photo, a short description, the opening status and the admission price; each museum page then brings together all the details, from the photo gallery to tickets and the website. Overviews by country, region and category – from art & design and technology to castles & palaces – invite you to browse.

A focus on accessibility and families

Detailed filters show which museums are wheelchair accessible or have a lift, an accessible toilet or disabled parking, whether companions get in free, and whether there are tactile offers, sign language tours, easy-read information or audio description. Families can look specifically for museums with family tours, activity booklets, hands-on stations, baby changing facilities, a play area or a family ticket. The app itself is accessible too, with a larger display option, higher contrast and a read-aloud function for every museum page.

For museums in Germany, an exhibition calendar also lists current and upcoming temporary exhibitions – with filters such as “Just opened”, “Closing soon” or “Near me” (currently in the German version of the app).

Free, no account, no ads

The app is free of charge, contains no advertising and requires no sign-up. Favourite museums and exhibitions can be saved to a list with a single tap; the list is stored on the device only.

MuseumsAtlas is available in English, German, French, Dutch, Danish and Czech.

Carefully researched – together with the museums

All information is researched individually for each museum and updated continuously, increasingly with direct support from the museums themselves, which contribute corrections and photos. Errors can be reported straight from the app.

About MuseumsAtlas

MuseumsAtlas (museumsatlas.com) is an independent museum guide that brings museums around the world together on one map – with opening hours, admission prices, exhibitions, accessibility and tips for families. The website and app are free, ad-free and multilingual.

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MuseumsAtlas i App StoreMuseumsAtlas på Google PlayMer om appen