ExploreVisit a museum, meet its characters, and keep talking to them at home.Scan, start, keep going 
LearnCourses by artists, makers, coaches and experts, with feedback on your own work.See the courses New Schools
Where culture keeps teaching.
One place to learn art, craft, heritage and making. Museums bring the visitors, makers bring the courses, and every visit and every class keeps teaching after it ends.
Keep teaching long after a visit ends.
The visit ends
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It keeps going
Scan a code in the gallery and the conversation follows you home.
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It comes from the source
Every answer comes from the museum's collection or the maker's own method. Curators and makers approve what goes live.
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You can see what it achieved
Museums see who kept learning. Makers see students and sales. Funders get real numbers.
The two worlds
- Your collection: the characters you met, where and when
- Talk to them anywhere, in your language
- A city host, and tours made with the museums
- Courses by artists, makers and experts
- Built on the collections, taught in their voice
- Feedback on your own work, between classes
Three doors
Who New Schools is for.
Museums & institutions
Keep visitors learning after the visit.
Your visitors spend an hour with your collection, then they are gone. Keep the conversation going at home, grounded in your own material, and see who kept learning.
For museumsArtists, makers & experts
Teach beyond the room.
Turn the material you already have into a course that keeps teaching between your classes, in your voice, with your students.
For creatorsVisitors & learners
Free for visitors, no download needed.
Scan a code in the gallery, carry the conversation home, learn from the places and people who make culture.
Start exploringHow it works
The loop, in three steps.
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A museum says yes
We start with one exhibition or one wing, with characters built from its own material.
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A visitor scans
The conversation starts at the artwork and carries on, on their phone.
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The value grows after the visit
Visitors keep learning, makers find students, museums see the results.
Then we do it again with the next exhibition.
Proof
Already working.
- 142
- students learning photography with our makers
- 297
- photo analyses in one month
- 532
- learner conversations in that month
Featured local artist
Iris teaches photography beyond the room.
Her workshops sell out. Her online course now has 142 students, with feedback on every photo they send in.
See the coursesIris Depassé, artist and founder of the Academie voor Abstracte Fotografie.
Good to know
Questions people ask.
What is New Schools?
One place to learn art, craft, heritage and making. Museums and cultural institutions bring the visitors, artists and makers bring the courses, and every visit and every class keeps teaching long after it ends.
Do I need an app?
No. Scan the code at the museum and you start straight away on your phone.
Prefer an app? The free New Schools app arrives in December.
And if your museum has its own app, you'll find us there too.
What does it cost?
Exploring is included with your museum ticket. Makers set their own course prices.
Who writes the answers?
The museum or the maker. Every answer comes from their own material, and the character tells you when it doesn't know.
Which languages?
Dutch and English now. Italian and Spanish in 2027.
The best teaching I've seen happens in museums and studios, and most of it stops at the door. New Schools carries it further, and we want it to reach people who can't pay for it today.
Next
See it with your own collection.
A 30-minute demo, online or at your museum, with a character built from a collection like yours.