Museum agencies do not need to rebuild the same infrastructure again and again
Agencies are great at design and UX but burn half a project on plumbing. MuCoDi provides the shared infrastructure so you don’t start from zero.
You work with museums, and it shows that we all care about making cultural heritage accessible. In our years of experience, we’ve seen that every museum needs basically the same technical foundation: connect their collections system to a website, search that actually works, properly structured data, and a site that non-technical staff can maintain. Yet most agencies start from scratch every single time.
What museums actually need
- The technical plumbing — getting data out of legacy systems (e.g. SARA in Denmark, or TMS), building the API layer and search infrastructure
- The user experience — design, navigation and storytelling that turns a database into something people want to explore
- Long-term sustainability — content management staff can handle, infrastructure that doesn’t need constant intervention
Most agencies are excellent at the second one — but end up spending more than half the project wrestling with the first. MuCoDi takes over that challenging part: the API layer, search architecture, data pipeline and taxonomy design.
A win-win partnership, not a referral program
You keep the client relationship, you lead the project, you do the creative and strategic work — we provide the technology and technical support. Many Nordic museums are small and face unique challenges: multilingual requirements, geographic isolation and strong digital needs during long winters. Together — MuCoDi and the agencies — we can serve them.