ExhibitSchop

Inspiration

I am an English teacher, author, collector, and lifelong creative person. I own original Shakespeare folio pages, including the conclusion of Julius Caesar from the 1623 First Folio and a 1632 Hamlet page containing Hamlet’s letter to Ophelia.

I have spent years trying to solve two related problems: how to present rare historical material in a way that feels worthy of a museum, and how to get students to slow down, look closely, and genuinely engage with Shakespeare.

What it does

ExhibitSchop is an AI-powered curatorial tool that transforms historical artifacts into structured, interactive learning experiences.

The Creator Studio asks four focused questions:

• Why does the collection matter?
• Who is the intended audience?
• What should visitors understand or feel?
• What detail or story should visitors notice?

GPT then proposes an exhibition title, an opening introduction, and an artifact label. The human curator can accept, edit, or reject every proposal before publishing it into the visitor experience.

The completed exhibition guides visitors through six scenes involving close observation, artifact interpretation, comparison, preservation, and reflection.

How I built it

I used Codex as my development partner throughout the project. Codex helped me design, build, debug, test, and extend the application.

Codex helped create the Creator Studio workflow, connect accepted AI proposals to the visitor experience, preserve reliable fallback content, improve validation, and troubleshoot the publication process.

GPT powers the live curatorial generation. It interprets the creator’s audience, educational goals, tone, and selected observation, then proposes exhibition content that remains under human editorial control.

Challenges

A major challenge was ensuring that accepted AI content actually appeared in the visitor experience instead of remaining isolated inside the Creator Studio.

Another challenge was producing artifact labels that were meaningfully different from the prepared copy while remaining historically grounded, educational, and appropriate for a museum-style exhibition.

What I learned

I learned that AI is most useful here not as a replacement for the teacher, curator, collector, or museum, but as a creative and technical partner.

The strongest result came from combining structured questions, human judgment, careful validation, and a polished visitor experience.

What's next for ExhibitSchop

ExhibitSchop could expand beyond Shakespeare to help teachers, collectors, archives, libraries, historical societies, and small museums create interactive exhibitions from their own objects and stories.

Future versions could generate audience-specific comparison prompts, reflection questions, preservation content, classroom activities, and multiple learning paths.

Built With

• ai
• codex
• digitalhumanities
• education
• gpt-5
• interactivestorytelling
• museumtechnology
• next.js
• node.js
• openaiapi
• pnpm
• react
• tailwindcss
• typescript