Corporate collections play a critical role in preserving brand heritage, supporting product innovation, and enabling storytelling across marketing, design, and communications teams. Yet many organizations still rely on traditional archive systems to manage these assets. While archives are valuable for […]
Museums and cultural institutions rarely fit a single operational mold. Collections vary widely in scale, material, geography, legal context, and institutional mission. An encyclopedic art museum managing international loans faces different challenges than an archive preserving born-digital materials, a historic […]
Learn how collection management software supports responsible digitization and public access. Explore how TMS Collections and eMuseum work together to help museums manage authoritative data, publish accurate online collections, and scale digital access while maintaining professional and ethical standards.
With more than 20 years of hands-on experience in collections management, Renee brings a practitioner’s perspective to her work at Gallery Systems. Since joining the team in June 2022 as a Project Manager, she has drawn on a career shaped […]
Time-Based Media is reshaping museum collections. Learn how the TMS Suite supports cataloguing, preservation, and collaboration for these dynamic works.
With more than two decades of experience supporting museums and cultural institutions, Heather Lake brings a rare blend of collection management insight, technical expertise, and deep client empathy to her role in Customer Success at Gallery Systems. After beginning her […]
With a background rooted in fine art and museum practice, Matt Lawson brings both creative insight and firsthand institutional experience to his role as Product Manager at Gallery Systems. Beginning his career at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Matt […]
This article explores practical strategies for managing culturally and emotionally sensitive records, including flagging sensitive content, adding handling instructions for sacred or restricted materials, managing group-specific access, protecting sensitive media, and updating inappropriate or outdated language.
As you know, museums do far more than house objects. Museums preserve and interpret human culture, history, and identity. As language and societal perspectives evolve, so too must the ways in which collections are documented and described. Updating terminology, acknowledging […]
With a career spanning roles across museums, academia, and museum technology, Chris brings a unique perspective to his position at Gallery Systems. From managing interactive technologies at the San Jose Museum of Art—where he pioneered some of the museum world’s […]
