Saga app
The guide to Limburg's largest open-air museum: street art works, their artists and cycling and walking routes along the works, free on the App Store and Google Play.
Impact
All the street art of Limburg, from Lommel to Maaseik, in one catalogue on your phone
Cycling and walking routes on the map that lead you from artwork to artwork
Launched on the App Store and Google Play, in Dutch and English
SAGA brings contemporary art into public space: murals and graphic art by local and international artists, spread across the whole of Limburg. For three years the organisation professionally mapped all those works. To open that collection up to everyone, we built the Saga app: a free guide that lets you discover the artworks near you, learn more about their makers and travel from one work to the next by bike or on foot.
Challenges
- Keeping a large, growing collection of artworks, artists and routes clear on a small screen, for visitors who may only use the app for a single day.
- Bringing routes and artworks together on one map, connected to the Limburg cycling network and the Hoge Kempen National Park.
- Translating Saga's outspoken visual identity into an app that stands out in the stores while feeling smooth and accessible.
Solutions
- Three ways into the collection: find a route, find an artwork or find an artist, with artworks and artists also available as their own tabs.
- A Discover map with two layers: the artworks around you and the curated cycling and walking routes, with distance and the works along the way.
- Detail pages per artwork with a photo series, the artists involved, the location and background information, supplemented with making-of footage for some works.
- One Flutter codebase for iOS and Android, bilingual (NL/EN), published on the App Store and Google Play.
“Limburg is now one grand open-air museum where visitors can soak up culture and enjoy nature at the same time.”
SAGA at the launch of the app, VRT NWS (June 2026)
Results
- A free app on the App Store and Google Play, launched alongside Saga's printed catalogue.
- Visitors find the works near them, read who made them and cycle curated routes from artwork to artwork.
- A collection that keeps growing: new artworks, artists and routes are added without rebuilding the app.
What this means for your project
- A consumer app that is in the stores: from concept and design to publication on the App Store and Google Play, for iOS and Android at once.
- Maps and routes at the heart of the experience: locations, routes and the visitor together on one map, also for tourism, heritage or events.
- Content-driven and multilingual: a catalogue your organisation keeps adding to, in several languages, without a new release for every change.
About Saga
SAGA vzw from Hasselt is an arts organisation for contemporary art in public space. It brings street art and graphic art by local and international artists to walls and buildings across Limburg, turning the province into Limburg's largest open-air museum. The app was made possible by a Flemish government project grant for supralocal cultural projects.
More about Saga at wearesaga.be.
In the press: VRT NWS: with the Saga app, Limburg becomes one big open-air museum (Dutch) · TVL: new app links street art to the Limburg cycling network (Dutch)
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