Argus

& Museum Collections Management Resources

Argus

& Museum Collections Management Resources

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Success Stories

BC Sports Hall of Fame and Museum

Museum

Confidence Factor; Leveling Up with Argus

BC Sports Hall of Fame uses Argus CMS to increase visitor accessibility; impose consistency and standardization on their collections.

The Woodstock Museum National Historic Site

Museum

Visualize, Customize, Optimize, with Argus

Woodstock Museum National Historic Site uses Argus to visualize, customize, optimize management and public access to their collections.

The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

Art Gallery

Timeless Collections Management —Argus For Now, Argus For The Future

With Argus, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia has an innovative collections management system that will always suit their needs even as they flex and change.

The Exploration Place + Science Centre

Museum

Cultivating a Cultural Community with Argus

Exploration Place’s implementation of Argus CMS centralizes a wide variety of collections and communities, maintaining cultural heritage in perpetuity.

History Colorado

Museum

Argus helps History Colorado Engage Visitors with People, Places and Stories

Collecting for over 100 years, History Colorado is a historical society dedicated to offering public access to the cultural and heritage resources of Colorado in 7 museum sites, 2 off-site storage facilities and a 200,000 item collection.

CU Art Museum

Museum and Gallery

The CU Art Museum Expands Curation with Argus Collections Management

Located on Colorado University’s Boulder Campus, the CU Art Museum’s collection contains objects that document over three thousand years of human civilization around the world.

Kalamazoo Valley Museum

Museum

Stay Local While Going Global: How Kalamazoo Valley Museum Does It with Argus

The Kalamazoo Valley Museum’s collection began in 1881 has grown to over 55,000 items, built primarily from donated objects focus on historical artifacts, photographs, and documents that tell the stories of people, businesses, organizations, and events that have had an impact on the region.

University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology

Museum and Gallery

Carpe Diem; Argus Turns a Challenge into a Success

With a small staff and a collection of almost 16,000 objects, the University of Missouri’s Museum of Art and Archaeology provides an understanding of artistic and cultural heritage through research, collection and interpretation for the benefit of present and future generations.
 

Buffalo Bill Center of the West

Museum

Support System: Argus is Behind the Scenes at Buffalo Bill Center of the West

The Argus implementation at The Buffalo Bill Center of the West simplifies collections management and maximizes audience engagement.

Primers

The Museums and Collections Management Primer

What is a museum? What are museum jobs? What is a museum collections management system? Basics of museums, what they do, what makes them successful.

Museum Collections Management System Primer

Museum collections management systems (CMS) like Argus are used to make collections accessible to digital visitors and improve museum workflow.

eBooks

Museum Digital Projects and You. Where to Begin?

By Rachael Cristine Woody

Learn the secrets of successful museum digital projects.

Museum Digital Projects and You. Where to Begin? offers advice from Rachael Cristine Woody, a seasoned museum expert and consultant with significant experience in museum, history and heritage organizations as both a practitioner and advisor. Digital projects are critically important to a museum’s mission of caring for and providing access to its collections. With that in mind, Ms. Woody covers the components of a successful museum digital project, how to create and manage a successful digital project, how to choose the right tools for museum digital projects, evaluating the museum DAMS vs CMS, how much museum digital projects cost, and creating a museum digital project workflow that works.

How to Select, Buy, and Use a Museum CMS

By Rachael Cristine Woody

Guaranteed Museum CMS Selection Success: The Essential Guide

How to Select, Buy, and Use a Museum CMS explains how to search for, select, buy, implement, and maximize the value of a museum collections management system. In order to deliver the best return on investment in a collections management system, staff need to know:
How to begin the search for the right CMS; how to navigate the procurement process; how to prepare for what migration will entail; what workflows, standards, and tools they should be aware of, and how to use a CMS to its maximum potential.
 

A Survivor’s Guide to Museum Grant Writing

By Rachael Cristine Woody

Learn the secrets of successful museum grant writing.

A Survivor’s Guide to Museum Grant Writing offers advice from Rachael Cristine Woody, a seasoned museum expert and consultant specializing in grant acquisition, with significant experience in museum, history and heritage organizations as both a practitioner and advisor. It takes a pragmatic approach to such topics as seeing each grant application as an opportunity, learning and moving on from inevitable failures, using grant acquisition to provide valuable financial sustenance to the museum without negatively impacting staff, and applying a systematic, common sense methods that builds the necessary skills to survive the grant writing process and thrive within it.

Data Sheets and Tech Specs

Argus Data Sheet

Argus Data Sheet

Argus Specs Sheet

Argus Specs Sheet
Get Technical Support

Technical Support

The Training Portal


The Training Portal enables Argus users to conveniently view online tutorials wherever and whenever they are needed. Designed to be self-paced and viewed as a whole or in convenient topical chapters, these tutorials will help you learn and discover how to make the most effective use of your Argus Collections Management Software.
 

Request Technical Support


Our team of experienced technical experts are available to solve your technical problems and provide exceptional customer service, 24/7/365.

Grants Directory

Grants Directory

Struggling to carve out time to craft a competitive museum grant project, find appropriate opportunities, and successfully work through the application?

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