Receive & accession
- Manual, scanned-paperwork, and photograph-assisted intake
- Donations and incoming loans
- Multiple artifacts connected to one accession
- Donor/lender identity and agreement-document history
The product
A collection manager built around museum work.
MCVM connects the records, physical stewardship, interpretation, and public sharing that small museums handle every day.
Catalog & preserve
- Identity, provenance, description, condition, people, periods, and events
- Photographs, documents, audio, and video
- Guided CSV, TSV, and JSON record imports
- Archive-first record lifecycle
Locations & custody
- Storage, exhibit, transit, loan, and missing-item states
- Append-only movement and custody evidence
- Outgoing loans and returns
- Readable histories for staff and volunteers
Interpret & produce
- Conservative AI-assisted review and research
- PDF-native exhibit labels with exact preview
- Museum Book and collection reports
- Worklists, inventories, and review queues
Share selectively
- Per-artifact and per-media public approval
- Local preview before upload
- Readiness checks for descriptions and photographs
- Private donor/lender and internal data excluded
Protect & recover
- Complete backups with database and linked files
- Full Collection Migration for complete MCVM-to-MCVM moves
- Integrity verification and transparent health
- Restore, move, and reconnect safeguards