Features | The Ubuntu Lab

Welcome to Seum

Seum is a neighborhood museum of contemporary human experience. They are part of daily life, designed for conversation, discovery, and agency. It’s where you make sense of a confusing world, or just enjoy a good coffee and plan your next adventure.

Seum Features

Seum takes what exists in the world and remixes it into a new experience for learning and exploration.
It feels a bit familiar, a bit essential, and wholly fresh. It's an exciting, inviting, human exploration of humanity.

Participatory

Leave your mark

Here, you are invited to remix, touch, add, and play. Interfaces respond to curiosity, and nothing breaks when you press the wrong button. The experience comes alive through your hands and voice, reminding you that humanity is something we shape together, not something we passively observe.

Digitally Dense

Build to interact

Screens, projectors, sensors, and data are everywhere, but never for their own sake. They fold into architecture, artwork, and atmosphere, creating a space that feels alive, dynamic, and responsive. This is what people expect: technology not as a spectacle, but as a medium for story, interaction, and wonder. Here, digital density becomes the fabric of experience, amplifying humanity rather than replacing it.

Local and Global

Community connection
Every Seum is both locally grounded and globally networked. Step inside, and you encounter stories and conversations from across the world, filtered through the lens of your own city, your own community. What you see in Cape Town differs from Barcelona, but the threads connect. Together, the Seum network makes the local global, and the global personal, reminding us that humanity is both shared and specific.

What is a Seum?

The museum, reimagined for today’s communities. Located on high streets and in community hubs, each Seum is a place to explore what it means to be human, today.