Human guides in museums and galleries are professionally trained to stimulate informal
learning in visitors by asking low-risk, open-ended reflective questions
that enable them to
focus on specific features of artifacts,
relate to prior experiences, and elicit curiosity as well as further thought. We present ArtMuse, our AI-powered chatbot for asking reflective questions in context of paintings. Our reflective question generation model in ArtMuse
was trained by applying a
novel combination of existing models for
extractive question answering and open-domain chitchat. User evaluation studies indicate that we are able to generate fluent and specific reflective questions for paintings that are highly-engaging.