PICKUP is an audio-guide for museums, visitor centres, exhibitions – whenever you want personalized, mobile audio in your tour. It features memory for up to 100 hours of high quality audio, easily updated during charging via the PICKUP CHARGER. Sound is reproduced through headphones or the self-contained loudspeaker. This easy-to-use audio-guide is lightweight with a robust, yet elegant aluminum housing.

LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA

Dataton PICKUP audio guides play a key role at the worlds biggest contemporary art exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. Visitors listen to the audio guides as they stroll through the Giardini, enjoying the conversations of artists from across the world.

BERLIN YEAR OF SCIENCE

The Weltwissen,“World Knowledge,” exhibition was described as the high point of the 2010 Berlin year of science. Equipped with Dataton’s interactive PICKUP audio guide, visitors got to grips with 300 years of science in Berlin, "from physiology to physics."

AND THERE WAS LIGHT

This touring exhibition opened in Göteborg, Sweden, in 2010 and will travel the world for the next eight years. The 500 PICKUP audio guides are an essential part of the visitor experience, providing good visitor flow, individual information about artists and works, and synchronized sound to visuals presented with Dataton WATCHOUT.

PICKUP AT POLISH NATIONAL LIBRARY

At a recent Chopin exhibition at the National Library in Warsaw, PICKUP audio guides were used in a tour containing seven hours of music. Visitors appreciated the excellent sound quality of the Dataton audio guides.

CASTROL CHINA TECHNOLOGY CENTRE

At the Grand Opening of the Castrol China Technology Centre, PICKUP audio guides were handed out to VIPs, government and corporate officials.

HUMPIS QUARTIER

At Humpis Quartier, the town museum in Ravensburg, Germany, Dataton PICKUP audio guides help visitors navigate through the museum and the centuries.

OI FUTURO CULTURAL CENTER

At the Telecommunications Museum at the Oi Futuro Cultural Center, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, visitors use PICKUP audio guides to trigger movies, listen to narrative and tune into soundtracks.

PICKUP AT MODERNA MUSEET – TIMES TWO

PICKUP is the voice of contemporary art at Moderna Museet in both Stockholm and Malmö, Sweden.

MARCHÉ INTERNATIONAL DU DISQUE ET DE L´EDITION MUSICALE

At the world's largest music industry trade show, PICKUP came into its own as an innovative way to present music from different labels.

Sweden | Lars Sandlund | PICKUP Info

Lars Sandlund, Product Manager at Dataton, talks about becoming a Dataton Partner.

Germany | Rainer Beddig | Mediaservice Rainer Beddig

Mediaservice Rainer Beddig was founded 1988 in Berlin and has since worked extensively with all Dataton products. In recent years, Mediaservice has acted as the distribution and support partner for Dataton clients and users in all German-speaking countries. Mediaservice offers a complete range of services around the PICKUP audio guide system.

Spain | Josep Lluís Centelles | Control Multimedia

Control Multimedia was founded in 2005 by a driven team with over 20 years' experience of Dataton products and the AV industry. Control Multimedia provides sales, programming, rental, design and technical support for PICKUP users throughout Spain, Portugal and Andorra. Pictured: Josep Lluís Centelles (left) and Quim Martinoy.

The Netherlands | Jan Breel | AVtrade

AVtrade provides solutions for museums, citywalks, visitor centres and all other audiotour users. Working together with content producers, system integrators and rental suppliers, the company can cater for every audiovisual need. AVtrade was founded by Jan Breel who has over 30 years experience in the audiovisual industry and has specialised in Dataton products for the last decade.

Denmark | Rasmus Linck | Informationsteknik Scandinavia

The Dataton team at Informationsteknik is a complete sales, design, production and staging service, which specialise in national as well as international conventions, corporate business meetings, exhibit, museum and trade show productions.

Denmark | Morten Ranmar | No Parking

No Parking has created many projects with PICKUP, and has experience with combining PICKUP and WATCHOUT. The company has invented a way to create interactive stories with multiple resolutions which means users get different story versions within the same exhibition. No Parking offers Dataton Sales and support, and has made a big installation for The Danish Aquarium.

France | Eric Lambert | Videmus SAS

Videmus SAS provides consultancy, project management and programming services for both PICKUP and WATCHOUT products. The company has extensive experience of supplying AV and audio guide solutions to live events, museums, showrooms and leisure parks. Videmus is based in Paris.

Germany | Martin and Helma Schröder | Schröder AV-Medien OHG

For more than 20 years, Schröder AV-Medien OHG has excelled at creating and integrating all kinds of media for exhibitions, events, museums and presentation rooms. The company has vast experience of Dataton products and their applications.

Israel | Michael Humash | Digital AV

Digital AV provides a wide variety of multimedia solutions: visual content & multimedia presentations, AV consultancy and show control programing, WATCHOUT & PICKUP training & sales. Digital AV clients include: theaters & art events, museums & visitor centers, exhibitions & corporate events, media producers & designers.

Italy | Claudio Ceroni | Mectech

Mectech is headed up by Claudio Ceroni who has deep knowledge of all the DATATON products since 1987. Mectech is leader providing technological solutions on installations, equipment sales, rentals, training and support for both PICKUP and WATCHOUT. Based in Faenza, the company works with professional AV rental partners, offering quality products and services all over Italy.

Norway | Karine Huseby | Skínir

Skínir AS offers museums and exhibitions a complete audio guide solution with Dataton PICKUP hardware, including the audio content production and sound studio. Skínir AS specializes in concept development and innovative communication, and have experience in identifying, analyzing and solving the challenges related to development of themed attractions.

Poland | Piotr Majewski | Moov

MOOV principal, Piotr Majewski has worked in the AV industry for more than 10 years and has been responsible for multimedia presentations and video technology for major corporate events, conferences and fairs. The company has supplied PICKUP for key installations such as the recent Chopin exhibition at the National Library in Warsaw.

Russia | Julia Kuznecova | Intmedia.ru

INTMEDIA.RU is located in Moscow, Russia. INTMEDIA.RU is a system integrator working on solutions for museums, exhibitions, galleries, clubs, training centers, conference venues cinemas and others. The company provides Dataton PICKUP product and support in Russia.

South Africa | Malcom Finlay | Penmac

PENMAC has been staging AV productions and effecting installations for over 25 years, with the last seven years primarily focused on Dataton products. PICKUP installations have been realised in museums and most recently as a visitor guide system in a corporate head office. Penmac also provide backup and technical support to other local companies offering PICKUP solutions to their clients.

Sweden | Anders Elfström | Filt

Filt offers museums and exhibitions a complete audio guide solution with Dataton's PICKUP hardware and everything in audio content production and sound studio rental. Previous customers include leading Scandinavian museums such as Moderna Museet and Nationalmuseet in Stockholm, Sweden.

Sweden | Hjalmar Olsson | Ord och Vision

Ord och Vision has eleven years' experience of producing audio guides, interactive storytelling, historical dramas, full-scale multimedia shows. The company writes, directs and produces high-quality shows for some of the largest museums in Sweden: Historiska Museet, Nordiska Museet, Royal Armoury with the focus always on high quality storytelling. Based in Stockholm.