JAMBURA JOURNAL OF INFORMATICS Vol. 4, No. 1, April 2022 http://ejurnal.ung.ac.id/index.php/jji Implementation of Augmented Reality as an Information Media for the Collection of the Popa-Eyato Museum Lanto Ningrayati Amali, Wirahman Salsabil Husain*, Moh. Ramdhan Arif Kaluku, Sitti Suhada Information System Study Program, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Indonesia *Correspondence email: wira.hsain@gmail.com DOI: 10.37905/jji.v4i1.13954 Abstract Museums are facilities that display historical objects and provide information to the public and visitors. However, the presentation of information in the museum to the visitors is far from proper due to the lack of details. The guides provided in the museum are not quite engaging. More than that, the information provided is only in the form of a sheet of paper stuck in the collection. This present study aims to develop information media using augmented reality technology. The method used in this research was the Multimedia Development Life Cycle (MDLC), which had six stages, viz. concept, design, material collecting, manufacture, testing, and distribution. This research develops an application that works as a medium of information related to museum collections using augmented reality, which is more interactive and visitors can use to obtain information from the collection. In addition, this application can visualize 3D and in real-time ethnographic objects in the museum. Keywords: augmented reality; collection; ethnographic; museum @ 2022 Informatics Engineering-FT UNG PENDAHULUAN Technological developments in the current era are increasingly rapid in several aspects, including Augmented Reality (AR) technology, which has made several contributions in various fields, including advertising, marketing, construction, and entertainment. Museums are an example of AR technology's adoption as a medium of information. Museums are defined as buildings to exhibit collections of historical objects and as an education for the visitors. Further, each museum's existing collections have some information on display (Vitono et al., 2016). There are many historical collections at the Popa-Eyato Museum in Gorontalo Province, and visitors can view and learn from the writings in the collection. Additionally, visitors will be accompanied by a guide to explain information related to the museum collection. In providing information for museum collections, there is a problem where the information obtained by visitors is not optimal due to the schedule of visits to the museum, which receives more than 50 visitors every day. Hence, only a few will be accompanied by a guide. This study aims to develop the informatic media to be more interactive by utilizing AR technology that uses smartphones as a medium in providing information related to museum collections to visitors. AR technology can be a solution related to information on museum