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.