Increasing Access to the Arts
What do you like best?
Moving our museum's database online allows for easier access for museum staff, university students, researchers, and the community. When Covid-19 shut down in person visits to the museum, we were still able to connect our community to the works in our collection and easily aid researchers with their inquiries.
What do you dislike?
The system is not fully adapted to non-commercial museum use, but the staff are committed to improving the platform and highly receptive to suggestions on how to make the platform more useful to an academic museum.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Having a cloud-based platform has been incredibly helpful for allowing public access, as well as letting our staff work more easily from home during the pandemic. Being able to upload multiple different file formats to an entry has also allowed us to create more robust files on our collection.