In this article, we give an overview of the particularities that surround artwork Recommender
Systems in museums. Unlike other domains, such as movies, where the user selects only
one movie to watch, in the museum domain it is necessary to recommend a sequence of
items to consume, in which the order and relationships among them might affect the
recommendation. Furthermore, curators determine a place for each artwork in the museum,
generating a distribution over the museum's rooms that imposes constraints about the way …

Museums usually exhibit thousands of artworks, and nowadays, they often have their
collections online for visitors. In these collections, the curators are responsible for organizing
the artworks seeking a delicate balance between emotion and reason. Given an initial
artwork, however, a visitor is likely to select and admire a set of related artworks that match
her interests. This setting can be seen as a recommendation problem in the art domain.
Although image recommendation systems have been previously developed, considering the …