Turn a Mac into a museum kiosk

Museums and galleries run interactive displays (a 3D tour, an archive to browse, a touch-screen story) often on a Mac mini behind the screen. The hard part is not building the experience; it is making the Mac hand-off safe. That is the job of museum interactive kiosk software: someone always tries to mess with a public display, and macOS has no built-in kiosk mode to stop them.

Canned Web seals the Mac to your one page and blocks every way out. No MDM, no configuration profiles, no cloud. A one-time €49 per machine, with a 14-day trial so you can lock down a real exhibit before you commit.

What a museum display needs

Escape-proof

Visitors interact all day, but can’t quit the app, reach the desktop, or open anything else. Spotlight, Cmd-Tab, Cmd-Q and screenshots are blocked.

Locked to your content

Off-site links don’t navigate, so a 3D tour or interactive stays on your site, no wandering to Google or a blank tab.

Survives the day

A power cut or overnight restart boots the Mac straight back into the exhibit, unattended. A watchdog relaunches it if it ever exits.

Works offline

Point it at a website folder stored on the Mac and the exhibit runs with no wifi at all, assets and routing included.

Touch-ready

Works with touch displays macOS reads as a pointer. Scroll-only mode gives you a look-don’t-touch display when you want one.

Travels well

Ship the exhibit to another venue: it powers on back into the same sealed site. One license moves between Macs from the operator screen.

One honest hardware note

No software can disable a Mac’s power / Touch ID button, macOS doesn’t expose it. For an unattended exhibit, use a Mac mini (its button is around the back), mount it out of reach, and set “no password on wake” so a stray press just wakes back to your display. We’d rather tell you that up front than pretend otherwise.