Roadmap

From one museum's system to shared cultural infrastructure.

Each phase only starts when the previous one is proven in real operation - the museum is the first user and the first test.

Phase 1

Internal museum system

Done · in daily use

Built and hardened inside the Video Games Museum's daily operation, across collection and front-of-house work.

Full catalogue with per-medium field sets

Locations, condition and movement history

Operations: till, rotas, maintenance, school visits

Phase 2

In progress

Turning one museum's system into something another institution can run without us in the room.

Multi-institution architecture and tenancy

Configurable data models and onboarding flow

Documentation, import tooling and support process

Phase 3

Museums, archives and university collections running on museumOS, with pilots guiding the priorities.

Pilot institutions across collection types

Migration from legacy databases

Public catalogue and API access

Phase 4

The goal

Shared standards and open interchange, so collections held by different institutions can be described and queried together.

Open interchange between institutions

Shared vocabularies and authorities

Assisted cataloguing at scale