Staff Stations
Staff and volunteers sign in with individual PINs and use a browser on the museum's network to search approved collection information and see their pending work.
Collection management for small museums
Know your collection. Keep it under your control.
MCVM Collection Manager brings accessions, artifact records, photographs, locations, labels, reports, backups, and public sharing together in one understandable Windows application.
Current MCVM collection dashboardUsed on a real collectionin active museum work at Mercer County Veterans Museum
Built inside a museumaround the work staff and volunteers actually do
Museum-controlledlocal collection data and verified backups
See the product
From receiving an object to sharing its story.
These are current MCVM screens and finished outputs from the fictional Riverview demonstration collection.
Is MCVM for your museum?
Built for collections managed by small teams.
MCVM is designed for museums, historical societies, and specialty collections where directors, staff, and volunteers may all take part in the work.
Why MCVM was created →You need one authoritative collectionkept on the museum's primary Windows computer.
You want staff and volunteers to helpwithout automatically giving them authority over permanent records.
You want understandable museum toolswithout depending on an enterprise IT department.
Bring your collection with you
Already have a collection? Don't start over.
MCVM supports qualified CatalogIt migration for collection records and media, PastPerfect collection-record migration, and guided CSV or spreadsheet migration.
See How Moving to MCVM Works →CatalogItQualified collection records and media
PastPerfectCollection records; qualified media migration is not yet claimed
CSV & spreadsheetsSupported migration path for existing collection data
MCVM preserves source meaning and uncertainty. It does not silently normalize identifiers, merge people, correct disputed facts, or invent missing history.What makes MCVM different
Practical help, with the museum still in charge.
Supervised Intake
People can prepare accession work under their own names. A supervisor reviews, corrects, accepts, or declines it before it joins the authoritative collection.
Remote Photos
Take photographs from a phone on the museum's Wi-Fi. They arrive in Incoming Photos for human review before being attached to a record.
Review-First AI
AI can suggest identification and wording. Museum staff decide what is accepted; suggestions do not silently become official facts.
MCVM Collection Manager 1.0
See how the work fits together.
A short introduction to receiving, reviewing, documenting, protecting, and sharing a museum collection with MCVM.
Learn more
Go directly to what matters to your museum.
Preparing for release
Interested in MCVM for your museum?
MCVM is preparing for controlled outside-museum installations. Public purchasing and downloads are not yet open.