In our many years of experience of working with museums, we have seen that every museum needs basically the same technical foundation.
They all need to connect their collections system to a website. They need the Search experience that actually works for the audience. They need the data structured properly, and that their non-technical staff can maintain the website easily.
It is also true that most of the digital agencies who work with museums start the museum website from scratch. Every single time.
What museums actually need (and what agencies are good at)
When a museum says "we want our collections online," they are really asking for three things:
The technical plumbing—getting data out of their legacy collections (for example SARA in Denmark) or TMS, building the API layer, creating search infrastructure, handling all the backend complexity that museums don't see but that makes everything work.
The user experience—beautiful design, intuitive navigation, compelling storytelling, the creative work that turns a database into something people actually want to explore.
The long-term sustainability—content management that museum staff can handle, infrastructure that doesn't need constant technical intervention, the ability to add features as needs evolve.
Most agencies are excellent at the second one. You have amazing designers and your UX and creatives teams design it so well.
But it is also true that you end up spending more than half of the project time wrestling with the first one—APIs, integrations, structured data set up for collections' search behavior, the responsiveness for smaller devices, and to set up the right architecture that scales as the museum grows for branding, exhibitions, or more futuristic vision such as AI-driven immersive experiences for the visitors.
MuCoDi takes over this challenging part
We have designed MuCoDi to support agencies' work and not to compete with you. We are good at is the digital infrastructure part—the API layer, the search architecture, the data pipeline, taxonomy design, and all the technical orchestration of what a museum website needs.
MuCoDi is ready for you—agencies can use it, and museums can use it.
So when a museums reaches out to you, you are not starting from ground zero.
The collections connection? Already done.
The search infrastructure? Already done.
The API layer? Already done.
The content management backend? Already done.
You focus on personalizing it for the museum—their UX goals, their institutional branding and vision, and make it usable and useful for them.
A win-win partnership, and not a referral program
We are not looking for agencies to send museum clients our way.
What interests us is: You have got museum relationships and creative capabilities. We have got technology infrastructure and technical backend. Together, we can deliver things that neither of us could do alone at the price point museums can actually afford.
This means:
You keep the client relationship
You lead the project
You do the creative and strategic work
We provide the technology and technical support—it saves a lot for you and for your museums
Our common mission
You work with museums and it shows that we all care about making cultural heritage accessible and you want museum projects to actually make sense for their holistic goals—museum's own vision, the visitors' experience, and our collection vision.
There are many museums in the Nordics that are small and face unique challenges—multilingual requirements, geographic isolation, and strong digital needs during long winter months when physical visits drop. These museums need modern digital solutions. We can make it possible for them if we both work together—MuCoDi, and the agencies. Learn more on our product page, and reach out to us if you have questions.