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Haptic prohibition is one of the most common limitations when interacting with museum artefacts. This restriction aims quite logically at preventing damages while safeguarding the integrity of the cultural reserve, which is primarily characterised by its uniqueness. Nevertheless, in cases where museum visitors are visually impaired, the inability to touch the artefacts makes the whole experience incomplete as the haptic perception of an artefact’s morphology is the primary substitute of sight. In this paper, we work towards a low-cost haptic ban removal by an initial establishment of a range of requirement specifications focused on the concept of a smart exhibit which is defined as a physical object that replicates the morphological features of an actual artefact while belonging in an ICT infrastructure that exploits features common in Internet of Things devices. We present a set of high level specifications and functionalities …