Why museumOS

Museum software has been sold to museums for thirty years. This one was built by one.

We are not comparing feature lists. The difference is where the software came from and who it was designed to serve.

Traditional solutions

Priced for national institutions and quoted to museums with three staff

Fixed data models that don't fit the medium you actually collect

Implementation projects measured in quarters, with consultants attached

Collections only - nothing for the front desk, the rota or the building

Interfaces designed before museums had public digital expectations

Roadmaps set by sales cycles, not by museum work

Museum-born: written by the people using it, in the museum using it

Data models the museum defines and changes itself, without a developer

Onboarding in days, not quarters - a small museum can start alone

Collection and operations in one system, because that is one job

Modern, fast interface that volunteers can learn in an afternoon

Every feature earns its place on the museum floor before it ships

Small teams, mixed media, volunteer labour, tight budgets and a public opening tomorrow - the conditions the product was designed against.

We know which parts of museum work are actually painful, because we do them. Nothing here exists to fill a feature grid.

A change ships and is used on the floor the same day. Bad decisions are found by us, not by our customers.

We are a museum. If the software makes museums slower or more expensive to run, it fails us first.

We didn't build software for museums. We built a museum first.