FOR HISTORIC SITES AND MUSEUMS
Your Site Has Stories
Let the Best Storytellers Tell Them
Bardeum Studios produces immersive audio-visual experiences for historic sites and museums, written by bestselling authors and performed by professional actors.
We deliver them in your app, in ours,
or as a web app your visitors open with a tap.
Let your visitors Step Inside a Story
or Go Beyond the Frame.
Don't Just See the Sites. Step Inside Their Stories.
You're standing in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. Centuries slip away. Candles shimmer against gold and glass. The air is heavy with perfume and politics. Masks conceal more than faces. It’s the night of the Yew Tree Ball - when King Louis XV arrives disguised as a yew tree in search of a new mistress.
The present recedes. You are no longer scanning plaques or memorizing dates. You are inside the moment - ambition, seduction, and power unfolding around you.
16
Experiences Produced
5
Destinations: Florence, London, Rome, Versailles, and Washington D.C.
5.0
App Store Rating
Writers Include: Charles Spencer, Margaret George, Tracy Borman, H.W. Brands, and Simon Scarrow
Narrators Include: George Blagden, Tuppence Middleton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Anthony Howell
WHY BARDEUM
People forget facts. They remember stories.
Our experiences are written by bestselling, award-winning authors and historians who bring expertise, passion, and extraordinary craft to every story. Because the most powerful thing a visit can offer isn't information, it's an experience visitors carry with them long after they leave.
Traditional interpretation hands visitors facts. BARDEUM is redefining the visitor experience by ensuring every tour is rich in narrative depth and emotional resonance.
The Best Storytellers
Bestselling authors, award-winning journalists, filmmakers, and renowned historians give your site a draw that goes beyond the standard audio guide, and a reason for their readers and fans to visit.
Talented Actors
Narrated by film and television stars as well as award-winning audio book narrators who offer a cinematic experience - bringing history back to life.
Nothing to Hand Out or Staff
Visitors listen on their own devices, at their own pace, on site or from home. No shared headsets, no fixed schedules, no tour groups to manage.
HOW WE DELIVER
Three ways to put your stories in your visitors' hands.
Same story, same production quality. Choose the home that fits your site, and change it later.
In Your App
We deliver the finished experience (audio, imagery and location content) ready to integrate into the app you already run. Your brand, your visitors, your data.
On Our BARDEUM App
Your experience joins our catalogue of authored tours on iOS and Android, where travelers already go to find them. We handle hosting, updates and listing.
As a web app (PWA)
A branded experience visitors open from a QR code or link. No download, no app-store friction, and it works on any phone.
OUR WORK
Current Experiences
From the Roman Colosseum to Versailles to the National Mall in Washington D.C., each experience pairs a site with the author best placed to tell its story
"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."
Attributed to Rudyard Kipling
HOW A PROJECT WORKS
It Starts with a Conversation.
Most sites have more than one story worth telling. We work with your team to find the one to start with, then handle the production with you involved at every step.
1
TOGETHER
Find the Story
We work with your team to find the stories you want to tell for your site, collection or exhibit.
2
YOUR DECISION
Choose Your Author
You have full input and final decision on which author tells your story.
3
YOUR EXPERTISE
Check the Facts
Your historians review for accuracy. We encourage collaboration.
4
YOUR DECISION
Choose Your Narrator
You have full input and final approval for the voice your visitors will hear.
5
TOGETHER
Beta Test
We beta test the experience together so you see what your visitors will experience.
6
TOGETHER
Launch
We launch on your app, on ours, or via a web platform and work together to spread the word.
WHO IT'S FOR
Built for Historic Sites. Ready for Museums.
TODAY
Historic Sites
Walkable places with a story to tell: palaces, ruins, battlefields, monuments, cities, and parks. A story-led route that visitors follow at their own pace.
NEXT
Museums
Experiences that go beyond the frame: stories behind individual artworks, an artist, or a movement. We're taking on pilots. Ask us about yours.
