Establishing Museum CMS Best Practices
The museum collections management system (CMS) will be most accurate and effective if museum staff first establish standards and best practices
Museum CMS 101: Workflow and Record Construction
If selected and used correctly, the museum collections management system has the power to positively impact museum staff work and increase digital user enjoyment.
Ready to Read: How to Select, Buy, and Use a Museum CMS
Rachael Cristine Woody’s book How to Select, Buy, and Use a Museum CMS helps you find the best collections management system for your museum.
How to Test, Vet, and Purchase a New Museum CMS
Successful museum CMS selection includes identifying and prioritizing CMS specifications, and exercising due diligence through testing and vetting
How to Identify Specifications for a New CMS
Selection of a museum collections management system involves understanding stakeholder requirements and developing specifications for the CMS
How to Form a Museum CMS Procurement Team
Forming a procurement team is the first step in acquiring a new museum collections management system; here are some best practices and tips
How to Prepare for a Museum Collections Management System Migration
Tips on how to ensure a seamless transition when migrating digital collection content from one museum CMS to another.
Museum Opportunities and How a Collections Management System Can Help
A museum collections management system is more than a vault for data; it is a digital space for innovation, collaboration, and relationship building.
The Changing Definition of Museums
Museum professionals need a definition of what a museum is, to develop museum strategies for the future. ICOM asks are museums political or neutral
5 Steps to Museum Volunteer Project Success
Whenever your volunteer project season may begin, it’s important to make sure you set your volunteers up for success.
7 Steps to Kick-Start Museum Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion Practices
Museum Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion (DEAI) practices are gaining momentum within the museum field.
How to Begin Your Search for the Right Museum CMS
Selecting a museum collections management system includes identifying vendors, compiling criteria, deal breakers, involving stakeholders, and procurement
Why You Need a (Better) CMS
Museum professionals rely on the data within the CMS to assist them in making informed decisions. A better CMS will support their work – not add to it.
The Importance of Internal Stakeholders to the Museum CMS
A museum collections management system (CMS) must meet internal stakeholder needs (collections managers, curators, educators, conservators, designers)
Museum Challenges and How a CMS Can Help – Part 2
Museums face common challenges; a museum collections management system (CMS) often represents a solution to issues with DEAI or digital visitors
Museum Challenges and How a CMS Can Help – Part 1
Museums face common challenges; a museum collections management system (CMS) often represents a solution to issues with past practices or funding problems
The Cost of Free Collections Management Systems
Museum collections managers must consider the pros and cons of open source of a free CMS; there are hidden costs which can be prohibitive.
Hamilton: The Exhibition – A Review
Museum interactive exhibit Hamilton: The Exhibition embodies diversity, equity, accessibility, inclusion (DEAI)
Museum TrendsWatch 2019: Homelessness and Housing Insecurity
Museums should develop strategies addressing trends outlined in the CFM TrendsWatch report including Homelessness, Blockchain, Self-Care, and Trust.
Museum TrendsWatch 2019: Self-Care
Museums should develop strategies addressing trends outlined in the CFM TrendsWatch report including Decolonization, Blockchain, Self-Care, and Trust.
Museum TrendsWatch 2019: Blockchain
Museums should develop strategies addressing trends outlined in the CFM TrendsWatch report including Decolonization, Blockchain, Self-Care, and Trust.
Museum TrendsWatch 2019: Decolonization
Museums should build strategies that address trends outlined in the CFM TrendsWatch report including Decolonization, Homelessness, Self-Care, and Trust.
Museum TrendsWatch 2019: Truth, Trust, and Fake News
Museum strategy should address trends affecting museums outlined in the CFM TrendsWatch report including Trust, Decolonization, Homelessness, Self-Care.
Who are the Stakeholders in Museum Digital Projects?
Museum staff should think about the needs of digital museum projects stakeholders, including staff, board members, patrons, researchers, communities.
Responsible Practices for Working with Communities and Collections
Museums have ethical responsibility for objects representing ethnographic communities; engage communities early and often; they are important stakeholders.