Articles, Insights & Case Studies from the Field

Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, founded in 1875, holds the largest design collection in the country. Originally established as an arts and crafts school, the museum’s collections have grown and evolved alongside its educational mission for nearly a century and a half. In 2025, the institution is celebrating its 150th anniversary, using this milestone to reflect on its history while innovating for the future through enhanced digital engagement and exhibition design.

Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, founded in 1875, holds the largest design collection in the country. Originally established as an arts and crafts school, the museum’s collections have grown and evolved alongside its educational mission for nearly a century and a half. In 2025, the institution is celebrating its 150th anniversary, using this milestone to reflect on its history while innovating for the future through enhanced digital engagement and exhibition design.

The Blanton Museum of Art recently took a step up with its collections management. As long-time users of EmbARK and EmbARK Web Kiosk, the team members decided to upgrade their collections management to TMS Collections and their online collections to eMuseum. Motivated by the expanded functionality and freedom the upgrade would bring, the Blanton Museum of Art staff took this project in stride.

With nine separate sites, the Louisiana State Museum (LSM) is one of the premier heritage destinations in the Bayou State, holding artifacts and artworks that showcase the state’s cultural diversity and storied history. To streamline internal operations, the LSM recently made significant changes to the management of its immense, 500,000-object collection, spread across multiple locations including heritage museums in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

Surrounded by sublime Ozark forests, the immense Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art hosts nearly 3,800 objects, both inside its awe-inspiring buildings—designed by famed architect Moshe Safdie—and outdoors, on a verdant 120-acre property. Spotlighting art that explores “the unfolding story of America,” the Museum’s permanent collection features work by such prominent names as Andy Warhol, Georgia O’Keeffe, Amy Sherald, Carmen Herrera, Julie Mehretu, Kerry James Marshall, Faith Ringgold, and José Clemente Orozco.

The feelings of awe invoked by stepping into a museum such as Honolulu’s Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design, transported to new worlds as you encounter each gallery and its objects, can be indescribable.

When cataloguing the archive began, the task seemed Herculean. The archive had never before been catalogued. During her prolific career for Lilly Pulitzer, Zuzek had produced over 1,500 designs, along with another 500 unregistered works.

M+, a new museum in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, has set out to become one of the world’s largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture and has spent the last several years collecting objects from around the globe.

The Frick Collection, located in New York City’s Upper East Side neighborhood, is one of the most well-known museums in the world, with a collection specializing in Old Master paintings and European sculpture and decorative arts predominantly dating from the 14th to 18th century.

The City of Düsseldorf established the inter media art institute (imai Foundation) in 2006 as an archive to care for an acquired video collection. The archive contains around 3,000 works of Time Based Media art, and provides context to the history of Time Based Media from the 1970s through today. As the collection expands to include contemporary artists, imai has made protecting, conserving, and cataloguing the collection a top priority.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) was founded in 1900 and opened to the public in 1924 with a mandate to bring “art into the everyday life” of the Houston community.