Museums of Sitges now have a presence in museum digital platforms

First official data on the presence of the Museums of Sitges at Google Art and VisitMuseum. In the case of VisitMuseum, the virtual tool promoted by the Generalitat of Catalonia or Catalonian Self-Government brings together the major museums in the country, both in the web version as in the app version, more than 3% of hits recorded by the program.

Specifically, the web version of VisitMuseum received 68,594 hits between 1 August 2016 and 31 January 2017, and in that same period, the four museums that are registered added 2531 (1294 corresponding to Museu Maricel, 902 to Cau Ferrat, 176 to Palau Maricel, 179 to Palau Maricel and 159 to  Stämpfli Foundation). This represents an average of 13.75 daily hits from a total of 372.79 obtained by the program as a whole. In this case, users access mainly from the computers (68%), but also from mobile phones (25%) and tablet (7%).

Regarding the app version of VisitMuseum, the guidelines are the same, although with slight variations. In the 184 days that from August to January, Museums of Sitges received 378 hits (185 Cau Ferrat, 131 Museu de Maricel, 32 Stämpfli Foundation and 30 Maricel Palace) of which 11,425 are generally connected to the application. The daily average of Museums of Sitges is 2.05 hits, included within the 62.9 recorded by this new app at the end of each day. Far from it seems, and as in the web version, user access comes mainly from computers (73%), while mobile and tablet represents only 21% and 6%. respectively.

Either in the app version as  in the web version, the most visited web pages are the home pages of the four museums of Sitges, mainly those written in Catalan. The intention is that, during the 2017, Museu Romantic will also be added to the platform. If nothing unexpected happens, it will be possible once completed the remodeling work being done in the building of Can Llopis.

The other digital platform that includes Museums of Sitges is Google Art, an online tool that allows 360-degree views from the world's major cultural facilities. Since its appearance in early June, museums of Sitges received Sitges 2848 hits (1,403 Cau Ferrat, 782 Maricel Museum, 518  Romantic Museum and 145 Palau Maricel). Most of these virtual tour surfers repeated on more than one occasion.

Museums of Sitges are present in Google Art along with a dozen Catalan museums. The Stämpfli Foundation will be added soon.