Museum Case Studies on Collections Management
Gallery Systems clients share their collections management experiences in our museum case studies library. From improving cataloguing standards and publishing online collections, to handling large collection moves and implementing digital asset management systems, learn how museum experts tackled their collections care challenges.
Suzie Zuzek, Lilly Pulitzer, and The Suzie Zuzek Project
Discovering the Artist Behind an Iconic American Look
Imagine a chance encounter launching you into the art world after discovering a 6,000-object archive of work by a brilliant, yet largely unknown artist. This is the course Becky Smith’s life took in 2007 when she first encountered Suzie Zuzek (Agnes Helen Zuzek de Poo) and her iconic textile designs [...]
M+
Illuminating the Archives M+, a new museum in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District, has set out to become one of the world's largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture and has spent the [...]
The Frick Collection
Preparing for Implementing Conservation Software The Frick Collection, located in New York City’s Upper East Side neighborhood, is one of the most well-known museums in the world, with a collection specializing in Old Master paintings [...]
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 archive contains around 3,000 works [...]
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 opened to the public in [...]
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, and is home to [...]
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 acquired a collection of over [...]
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 the most comprehensive collection of [...]
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 Permanent Collection of Art, the [...]
Stark Museum of Art
Preserving, Cataloguing, and Sharing Rare Books with Collections Management Software The Stark Museum of Art in Orange, Texas, was the vision of collectors H.J. Lutcher Stark and Nelda C. Stark. Opened in 1978, the Stark [...]
California Department of Parks and Recreation
Using Barcode Technology to Track Collections During a Relocation Move The California Department of Parks and Recreation, otherwise known as California State Parks, has a mandate to preserve, protect, and interpret its museum collections which includes [...]
The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology
Standardizing Cataloguing for a Natural History Collection The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology is Canada’s only museum dedicated exclusively to the science of palaeontology, and houses one of the world’s largest displays of dinosaurs and [...]
The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation
Using Collections Management Software to Produce an Ambitious Catalogue Raisonné. The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, in Berkeley, California, is working on a project jointly sponsored by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, to compile a [...]
Williams College Museum of Art
Integrating and Promoting Fine Art and Archives through Technology The Prendergast Digitization Project Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA), in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is widely considered to be one of the finest college art museums in [...]
Indian Arts Research Center
Large-Scale Collection, Small-Scale Team: Effectively Maintaining Community-based Cultural Collections The Indian Arts Research Center (IARC), a division of the School for Advanced Research (SAR) located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, implemented TMS from Gallery Systems [...]
Southwark Culture & Heritage Services
Local government museum expands access to their collections through online sharing With increased government requirements to provide broader access to collection information, cultural institutions in the United Kingdom are rethinking their strategy on community outreach. [...]
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums
Local Government Museum Expands Access to Their Collections Through Online Sharing With increased government requirements to provide broader access to collection information, cultural institutions in the United Kingdom are rethinking their strategy on community outreach. [...]
Australian National Maritime Museum
eMuseum Helps Australian Communities Develop Their National Maritime Heritage As a national collecting institution, The Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) promotes a broad interpretation of maritime heritage and culture through innovation, creativity and collaboration. ANMM, [...]
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