2025 Grant Guide
Discover the Best Hosting Strategy for Your Institution
Choosing the right hosting strategy for your collections management system is essential to ensuring system reliability, data security, and user satisfaction. This guide offers expert insight into two options for the TMS Suite:
- Managed Hosting by Gallery Systems – A secure, cloud-based solution maintained by our expert team
- Self-Hosting by Your Institution – A fully in-house approach, offering greater infrastructure control


Unlock Funding Opportunities for Your Museum
Finding the right funding for your museum’s needs just got easier. Our newly updated 2025 Grant Guide is now available in a sortable database, designed to streamline your search for the most relevant grants.
Inside, you’ll find grants to support:
- Collections care
- Conservation
- Exhibition planning
- Digital strategy
- Software and technology
- Professional development
- …and much more!
Inside the guide, you’ll find a clear comparison of both models, key evaluation questions, infrastructure and security guidance, and an overview of what you control in each setup—all supported by Gallery Systems’ enterprise-grade security and ISO 27001 compliance.
