The Global Leader in Collections Management Solutions
Our mission is to provide the finest collections management solutions to our clients in order to help them collect, manage and share the world’s cultural heritage.
By the Numbers
We support over 800 clients, from small research institutions and schools to corporate collections and world-class museums.
Our software is used to manage over 30 different types of collections including natural history, archives, rare books, costumes, film, fine art and many more.
For over 30 years, we’ve remained the industry-leading collections management company by developing software specifically focused on cultural institutions.
We have clients in over 31 countries worldwide, from Australia to Hong Kong, Canada to Peru and everywhere in between.
Our Story
Gallery Systems was founded in 1981 with a simple idea: to give those caring for cultural heritage materials of any type a software foundation to manage and share their collections and archives. Gallery Systems produces an interwoven platform of products that all use the same database, designed to support collections management needs in the most efficient and cost-effective way.
Gallery Systems clients include many of the world’s most important museums, corporate and government archives, and private collectors. Our promise as a collections management company is to never waver in our dedication to our clients as we use our deep knowledge of collection management and technology to create the best tools to efficiently manage collections.
Our Clients
Get to know us by learning about our clients. Read our case studies to see how leading museums are tackling their collections management challenges.
The imai Foundation
Cataloguing Time Based Media The City of Düsseldorf established the inter media art institute (imai Foundation) in 2006 as an archive to care for an acquired video collection. The [...]
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
How a new DAMS Software Upgrade is helping to Streamline Workflows at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, (MFAH) was founded in 1900 and [...]
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University
Promoting Teaching and Research Through Excellence in Collections Management The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is among the oldest museums of its type in the world, [...]
The J. Paul Getty Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Joint ownership of the Mapplethorpe collection: Best practices in learning how to share In 2011, the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) jointly [...]
The Munch Museum
Barcoding Best Practices When Moving House Opened in 1963, the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, is dedicated to the life and work of expressionist pioneer Edvard Munch. The museum maintains [...]
Chapman University Art Collections
Cataloguing a Museum without Walls Chapman University Art Collections is a unique group of collections that functions through the lens of education and consists of the Phyllis & Ross Escalette [...]
What Our Clients Say
“TMS is used by so many major museums. Meeting the needs of those museums, as Gallery Systems has done, has made the product more flexible and we, as a smaller organization, have been the beneficiaries.”
“One of the reasons we went with Gallery Systems was their commitment to us in helping develop the tools to support specialized features for an anthropology museum. TMS is comprehensive enough to let us capture all necessary data on each object. It gives us the flexibility to adapt the modules and fields so that they make the most sense to us, and makes searching our collection easier for staff, students and researchers.”
“Right now our collections staff are the Museum‘s TMS gurus. We enter the data, edit and clean it up, search for it, run reports, find hidden treasures, and conduct inventories, all with the help of TMS.”
“Gallery Systems delivers a fantastic product, but what really sells me is their unstinting technical support. As well, their ongoing innovation and interest in their clients’ needs come together to make TMS the best product it can be.”
“TMS and eMuseum are the foundation of the management of our collection. With the help of TMS, we can extend our information to the public and internal staff alike.”
“The collaboration and exchange between TMS users has been very useful, both locally and internationally with programs like Collective Imagination. Users of TMS organize conferences and workshops in order to keep members informed, support collaboration, and inspire the development of new ideas and projects.”
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