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Museo del Galeon - Executive Project Summary

Aiming for international museum standards with cutting-edge interactive technology, worthy of the title "the first experiential maritime museum in the Philippines" delivering true world-class interactive experiences with gaming-quality polish
We can create leaner estimates, but we made assumptions about the polish & quality that was expected for these installations
We assume that all projects will include voice-overs in English and Tagalog in which they are released, ensuring full accessibility for all audiences.
All attached photos are for sample visuals only.
Copy of Project 1 Summary: The Balangay (Ancient Mariners & Their Sea Routes)
Component
Visitor Experience
How It Works
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Hours
Total Included
Base Experience
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Visitors explore how traditional Balangay boats were built by tapping on different parts of the vessel to discover the materials, tools, and techniques used by Filipino shipbuilders. Beautiful animations and bilingual storytelling guide guests through each construction stage, from selecting the right wood to shaping the hull.
Interactive touchscreen experience on large tablet display. 5-8 minute journey through traditional boat construction with parallax effects and nested information popups. Kids enjoy tapping and discovering, while adults learn authentic Filipino shipbuilding methods and cultural significance.
229.3
229.3
Wow Factor (Optional): 3D Vessel Explorer
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Step into an immersive 3D world where visitors can walk around a lifelike Balangay floating on ocean waters. Use simple hand gestures to rotate, zoom in, and explore every detail of the vessel from all angles - like having the actual boat right in front of you.
3D enhancement that transforms the 2D experience into an immersive exploration. Visitors use touch gestures to manipulate a detailed 3D model floating in a realistic seascape, providing 360-degree vessel examination and deeper engagement.
39
39
Further Polish & Refinement (Optional, Highly Recommended)
Collaborative refinement with the museum team through multiple feedback cycles, ensuring expert-validated historical accuracy and the highest quality representation of Filipino maritime heritage.
Museum collaboration phase allowing cultural experts and educators to refine content, validate historical details, and optimize visitor engagement through iterative feedback sessions.
104.8
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268.3
Sum

Project 1 - Legend


Man-Hours
Base Experience
229.3
Wow Factor
39
Further Polish & Refinement
104.8
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Dynamically calculated costing based on Include
Total in USD
16,634.6
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Pass-Through Costs:
Base Experience: $1,300-2,000 (Professional bilingual narration, cultural sound effects, historical background music)
3D Enhancement: $800-1,300 (Licensed 3D boat model, realistic ocean environment assets)


Copy of Project 2 Summary: Pre-Colonial Trade Routes (Oceans Ways of Old)
Component
Visitor Experience
How It Works
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Hours
Total Included
Base Experience
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Visitors explore an interactive map of the Philippines, discovering the sophisticated trade networks that connected the islands long before Spanish colonization. Touch different routes to learn about the goods traded—from gold and spices to textiles and pottery—and hear stories about the merchant families who sailed these waters. The experience includes bilingual language options to ensure accessibility for all visitors.
Large touchscreen display with interactive Philippine archipelago map. 8-12 minute experience with smooth pan/zoom navigation and 8 major trade routes. Kids enjoy touching routes and discovering artifacts, while adults learn about sophisticated pre-colonial commerce networks and cultural exchanges.
278.6
278.6
Wow Factor (Optional): 3D Trade Visualization
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3D enhancement converting the 2D map into an immersive terrain model. Visitors manipulate a 3D Philippine archipelago showing elevation, ocean currents, and animated trade flow visualization for deeper geographic understanding.
41.6
0
Further Polish & Refinement (Optional)
Collaborative refinement with the museum team ensuring every trade route, commodity, and cultural detail accurately represents the remarkable economic sophistication of pre-colonial Filipino societies.
Museum collaboration ensuring historical accuracy of trade networks, cultural sensitivity in representing pre-colonial Filipino economic systems, and educational effectiveness validation.
Extended collaboration time enables iterative refinement with museum experts, allowing for design modifications and technical improvements based on hands-on feedback sessions.
104.2
0
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278.6
Sum
Pass-Through Costs:
Base Experience: $1,200-1,800 (Expert bilingual narration, maritime ambient sounds, historical background music)
3D Enhancement: $600-900 (Professional 3D terrain model of Philippine archipelago)

Project 2 - Legend


Man-Hours
Base Experience
278.6
Wow Factor
41.6
Further Polish & Refinement
104.2
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Dynamically calculated costing based on Include
Total in USD
17,273.2
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Copy of Project 3 Summary: The Philippine Family (Intermarriage & Castas)
Component
Visitor Experience
How It Works
Include?
Hours
Total Included
Base Experience
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Visitors can enter their family name and ethnicity to uncover ancestral connections to galleon history. The system then searches genealogy records and generates a beautifully designed, personalized souvenir—available in bilingual language options—that illustrates their family’s story and its ties to the Philippines’ rich maritime heritage. This meaningful keepsake transforms history into a personal experience.
Tablet-based genealogy search with custom onscreen keyboard and thermal printer. 3-5 minute experience from search to printed souvenir. Kids enjoy the search process and getting a printed keepsake, while adults discover detailed family heritage connections to colonial history and maritime trade.
218.6
218.6
Wow Factor (Optional): Digital Sharing & Management
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Visitors can email their family discoveries to themselves, and museum staff get powerful tools to easily add new family histories and genealogy data, keeping the experience fresh and expanding the stories available to future visitors.
Email functionality with PDF generation plus admin portal for museum staff. Visitors receive digital copies via email, and museum team can remotely add new genealogy data to expand the database over time.
98.9
0
Further Polish & Refinement (Optional)
Collaborative refinement with heritage experts to validate family histories and cultural representations, ensuring respectful and accurate storytelling about the complex colonial influences that shaped Filipino family structures.
Cultural sensitivity validation with Filipino heritage experts, genealogy database accuracy verification, and respectful presentation of complex colonial family history narratives.

Extended collaboration time enables iterative refinement with museum experts, allowing for design modifications and technical improvements based on hands-on feedback sessions.
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218.6
Sum
Pass-Through Costs:
Base Experience: $600-900 (Professional bilingual guidance narration, interface sound effects)


Project 3 - Legend


Man-Hours
Base Experience
Wow Factor
Further Polish & Refinement
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Dynamically calculated costing based on Include
Total in USD
13,553.2
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Copy of Project 4 Summary: Things of Beauty (Asians in New Spain)
Component
Visitor Experience
How It Works
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Hours
Total Included
Base Experience
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Step up to the Galeon-themed photobooth and try on historical hats, facial hair, and accessories inspired by those worn by Spanish colonists and Filipino traders. The screen displays your filtered image clearly, with bilingual interface options, so you can easily capture it on your phone and share your colonial-era persona with friends on social media.
Live camera photobooth with large display screen optimized for photography. Real-time face tracking applies period-accurate filters (8 hats, 6 facial hair styles, 4 accessories). Kids love trying on different looks while adults appreciate the historical accuracy of Spanish colonial period accessories.
255
255
Wow Factor (Optional): Premium Digital Experience
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Get professional-quality photos delivered directly to your phone via QR code, share instantly to social media with museum hashtags, and create group photos where everyone appears together in historical Galeon scenes. Museum staff can remotely update filter options to keep the experience fresh.
QR code system delivers high-resolution photos to phones with secure expiring links. Group photo compositing places multiple faces into themed Galeon backgrounds. Admin portal allows remote filter management and social media integration.
158.6
0
Further Polish & Refinement (Optional)
Collaborative refinement ensuring historically accurate Spanish colonial period accessories, optimized camera performance, and the best possible photo results through museum team feedback.
Historical accuracy validation for colonial period props, camera lighting optimization, and user experience refinement based on museum staff feedback and visitor testing.

Extended collaboration time enables iterative refinement with museum experts, allowing for design modifications and technical improvements based on hands-on feedback sessions.
104.8
0
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Pass-Through Costs:
Base Experience: $800-1,200 (Period-accurate 3D props and accessories, bilingual photo booth instructions, cultural sound effects)
Premium Enhancement: $300-500 (Licensed historical background scenes for group photos)

Project 4 - Legend


Man-Hours
Base Experience
Wow Factor
Further Polish & Refinement
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Dynamically calculated costing based on Include
Total in USD
15,810
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Copy of Project 5 Summary: Behind the Word (Language Quiz)
Component
Visitor Experience
How It Works
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Hours
Total Included
Base Experience
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Visitors play an engaging word game where Filipino words float across the screen, and they tap to guess which ones came from Spanish during colonial times. Each word reveals surprising origin stories that show how languages blend and evolve. Fresh, randomized word sets keep the experience engaging for repeat visitors.
Touchscreen word game on large display with floating Tagalog words. 5-8 minute sessions with 50+ word origins and bilingual explanations. Kids enjoy the tapping game mechanics while adults discover fascinating etymology stories about Spanish influence on Filipino language.
284.6
284.6
Wow Factor (Optional): Competitive Learning System
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Transform the experience into a competitive game with daily, weekly, and all-time leaderboards where visitors can enter nicknames and compete for top scores. Multiple difficulty levels and an extended quiz mode encourage families and friends to challenge each other.
Extended 30+ question quiz mode with local leaderboard system. Daily/weekly/all-time high scores displayed with nickname entry. Three difficulty levels (Easy/Medium/Hard) and anti-repetition algorithms for frequent visitors.
150.6
0
Further Polish & Refinement (Optional)
Collaborative refinement with Filipino language experts to validate every word origin and cultural explanation, ensuring absolute accuracy in this celebration of how Filipino language adapted and thrived during colonial contact.
Linguistic accuracy validation with Filipino language experts, etymology source verification, and cultural sensitivity review ensuring respectful representation of language evolution.

Extended collaboration time enables iterative refinement with museum experts, allowing for design modifications and technical improvements based on hands-on feedback sessions.
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0
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Pass-Through Costs:
Base Experience: $1,000-1,500 (Expert bilingual narration with pronunciation guides, cultural ambient sounds, historical music themes)

Project 5 - Legend


Man-Hours
Base Experience
Wow Factor
Further Polish & Refinement
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Dynamically calculated costing based on Include
Total in USD
17,645.2
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Copy of Project 6 Summary: From Blueprints to Life (Building the Galleons)
Component
Visitor Experience
How It Works
Include?
Hours
Total Included
Base Experience
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Visitors step into the role of galleon builders in this immersive, story-driven game. The experience begins in a bustling colonial market where they select materials—woods, metals, and fabrics—each with distinct properties. From there, they move to the shipyard, using drag-and-drop components along with hammering and rigging mini-games to learn traditional construction techniques. With bilingual language options, visitors see how their choices directly shape the ship’s final appearance and performance, making the process both educational and engaging.
Large touchscreen narrative game with two phases: market sourcing and ship construction. 15-20 minute complete experience with drag-and-drop assembly, mini-games, and 20-25 minutes of bilingual narration. Kids love the building mechanics while adults learn authentic galleon construction methods and material properties.
442.4
442.4
Wow Factor (Optional): Manila-Acapulco Voyage
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Set sail on the historic Manila-Acapulco route! Your construction choices directly impact how well your galleon handles storms and challenges during this 2-3 minute sailing adventure. Patch sails, pump water, and manage your cargo as you experience the dangers and triumphs of trans-Pacific trade.
Third phase adds 2-3 minute sailing gameplay where construction quality affects ship performance. Real-time maintenance challenges (sail patching, water pumping) with dynamic weather system and consequence mechanics teaching the importance of quality construction.
178.6
0
Further Polish & Refinement (Optional)
Collaborative refinement with maritime historians and Filipino cultural experts ensuring every detail - from market interactions to construction techniques - authentically represents the skill and ingenuity of galleon builders and the importance of the Manila-Acapulco trade route.
Maritime expert collaboration validating galleon construction authenticity, cultural sensitivity in representing Filipino shipbuilding expertise, and educational content optimization for maximum historical accuracy.

Extended collaboration time enables iterative refinement with museum experts, allowing for design modifications and technical improvements based on hands-on feedback sessions.
92
0
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Pass-Through Costs:
Base Experience: $1,500-2,200 (Comprehensive bilingual narration for all game phases, authentic market and construction sounds, period-appropriate background music)
Sailing Enhancement: $600-900 (Additional voyage narration, ocean and storm sound effects)

Project 6 - Legend


Man-Hours
Base Experience
442.4
Wow Factor
178.6
Further Polish & Refinement
92
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Total in USD
27,428.8
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Copy of Project 7 Summary: Lost and Found (Instruments of Navigation)
Component
Visitor Experience
How It Works
Include?
Hours
Total Included
Base Experience
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Visitors take the helm of their own galleon, navigating across treacherous seas using three traditional methods that once guided real voyages. They can steer by the stars like ancient Filipino sailors, follow a magnetic compass introduced by Spanish explorers, or read natural signs such as bird flight patterns and ocean currents. With bilingual language options, visitors can switch between methods during their voyage to understand how each worked—and why sailors relied on multiple techniques to survive the journey to Acapulco.
Touchscreen navigation game with three distinct mini-games for different navigation methods. 3-5 minute voyages with tool switching, 12-15 minutes of bilingual narration. Kids enjoy the varied gameplay mechanics while adults learn authentic 17th-century and traditional Filipino navigation techniques.
358.6
358.6
Wow Factor (Optional): 3D Maritime Immersion
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Step into a fully immersive 3D ocean environment where you can look up at a realistic star dome, hold and manipulate an authentic compass, and watch birds fly naturally across the sky. The 3D experience makes navigation feel real - you'll understand how intimidating and crucial these tools were for galleon captains crossing the vast Pacific.
Full 3D environment upgrade with realistic ocean waves, star dome visualization, and authentic compass physics. Visitors use touch gestures to manipulate 3D navigation tools in an immersive maritime setting, providing deeper understanding of navigation challenges.
219.2
0
Further Polish & Refinement (Optional, Highly Recommended)
Collaborative refinement with maritime historians and experts in traditional Filipino navigation, ensuring the experience accurately represents both indigenous ocean wayfinding techniques and Spanish navigation tools, honoring the maritime expertise of both cultures.
Maritime expertise validation ensuring accurate representation of both traditional Filipino wayfinding and Spanish navigation methods, cultural sensitivity review, and educational effectiveness optimization.

Extended collaboration time enables iterative refinement with museum experts, allowing for design modifications and technical improvements based on hands-on feedback sessions.
92
0
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Pass-Through Costs:
Base Experience: $1,000-1,500 (Expert bilingual navigation explanations, ocean ambient sounds, maritime adventure music)
3D Enhancement: $800-1,200 (Professional 3D ocean environment, realistic galleon model with period-accurate details)

Project 7 - Legend


Man-Hours
Base Experience
390.6
Wow Factor
219.2
Further Polish & Refinement
92
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Dynamically calculated costing based on Include
Total in USD
22,233.2
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About Further Polish & Refinement

Further Polish & Refinement (Optional, Highly Recommended) provides dedicated time for the museum team to collaborate closely with White Widget through multiple feedback iterations. This phase allows for:
Cultural Accuracy Review - Working with museum experts and cultural consultants to validate historical details
Educational Effectiveness - Refining content based on visitor testing and museum educator feedback
Experience Optimization - Fine-tuning interactions, visuals, and audio based on real-world usage
Quality Assurance - Additional testing cycles to ensure museum-grade performance and reliability
Stakeholder Alignment - Incorporating feedback from various museum departments and leadership
This collaborative approach ensures each experience meets the highest standards for historical authenticity, cultural sensitivity, and visitor engagement that Museo del Galeon deserves.

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