IDEA@Muse is a comprehensive collection management system designed for museums. The system enables seamless management of all aspects of collections care, access and public exposure throughout the artifacts’ lifecycle, including physical, digital and logical information.

• Ready-made templates for common museum objects such as general artifacts, maps, publications, photos, historic and ethnographic objects and more.

• Support for all museum processes and functionality:
  Accession / deaccession
  Shipping
  Condition report
  Valuation
  Conservation
  Incoming and outgoing loans
  Movements / location control
  Insurance
  Rights
  Events / exhibitions

• Workflow management: Flexible creation of customizable workflows to support the institution’s specific procedures and methodologies throughout the artifacts’ lifecycles.

• Powerful and granular authorization control with user profiles for secure access. Roles and access restrictions can be set up at multiple levels, from the databank down to the field and action levels.

• Location management for physical tracking of every item.

• Virtual exhibitions: Unique creation of online exhibitions of selected works.

• Automatic inheritance of metadata using museum-defined logical and physical structures. Inheritance from upper levels of the hierarchy to the lower levels reduces data entry time, and ensures accurate cataloging at each level, thus reducing costs.

• Digital collection and multimedia support for a wide range of digital assets, such as images, video and audio files. Digital object manipulation is also supported with functions such as the magnifying glass for detailed viewing, embedded logos, rotate and zoom.

• Virtual linking: Management and display of relationships between items. Outstanding flexibility enables users to define and apply link types and link items.

• User friendly Web interface for discovery and publishing of collections online.

• Support for emerging industry standards.

• Full and seamless integration with IDEA@Arc and IDEA@Lib.