Historia is an AI-powered, gamified museum platform that transforms passive museum visits into interactive cultural adventures. Using image recognition, AR overlays, scavenger hunts, badges, and multilingual narration, Historia creates an engaging bridge between physical heritage spaces and modern digital experiences.
Traditional museum experiences often lack interaction, personalization, and long-term engagement. Existing audio guides and static applications provide limited educational value and fail to create memorable experiences for visitors. Historia addresses this challenge through a full-stack platform combining AI-powered artifact recognition, gamification systems, AR experiences, and social gameplay mechanics.
Historia combines machine learning, mobile development, geolocation systems, and gamification mechanics to create a production-ready cultural heritage platform.
Uses a dual-pipeline recognition system with custom TFLite object detection models and Google Gemini Vision AI fallback support for intelligent artifact analysis.
Visitors scan real museum artifacts, complete objectives, unlock achievements, and compete using score-based gameplay systems.
Educational fill-in-the-blank quizzes reinforce learning after artifact discovery and reward users with additional experience points.
Integrated PostGIS spatial queries allow users to discover nearby museums through interactive map interfaces.
Multi-tier milestone badges encourage long-term engagement through museum visits, artifact scanning, and game completion progress.
A cyberpunk-inspired augmented reality scanning interface overlays live recognition data directly onto the mobile camera stream.
The mobile application was developed using React Native and Expo with a modern UI architecture, bottom-tab navigation system, real-time camera integration, and responsive interaction flows.
Historia follows a microservice-based full-stack architecture consisting of a React Native mobile application, a Rust Axum REST backend, a Python FastAPI vision service, and a PostgreSQL database.
User Interface, AR Camera, Geolocation, and Real-time Interactions
Authentication, Game Services, Spatial Queries & Museum CRUD
Relational Data Storage, User Profiles, Badges & Geographical Data
Custom TFLite Object Detection & Artifact Classification Pipelines
Cloud-based Intelligent Analysis for complex or unrecognized artifacts
The project integrates modern mobile, backend, AI, and infrastructure technologies to build a scalable and high-performance platform.