Empower your team. Protect your data. Share your collections.
CollectionSpace is powerful, community-driven, open-source software built in partnership with museum professionals. Scale your impact with a full suite of collaborative workflow tools, unlimited user accounts, and the option for fully-managed hosting backed by Lyrasis.
Features Trusted by Museum Professionals
Join a growing community of universities, historical societies, and museums—including UC Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of Virginia, Ohio History Connection, Mississippi State University, and the Center for Creative Photography—who rely on CollectionSpace for ethical care and stewardship. Learn more About CollectionSpace and the Community of Users.
Collaborate Without Limits. With unlimited user accounts, give your entire staff, volunteer network, and board members secure, permission-based access from anywhere.
Safely Manage Your Data. Move away from messy spreadsheets or an outdated legacy database. Our robust CSV importer streamlines data management.
Share Your Collections. Instantly share select objects, artifacts, and images with researchers and the public via the Public Browser.
Connection Your Applications. Seamlessly integrate your collection data with external web platforms and discovery tools utilizing our robust open API.
Photo credit: Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, Lyrasis-hosted CollectionSpace user since 2023.
Our Commitment to NAGPRA
The CollectionSpace program is committed to supporting institutions in the stewardship and return of collections and ancestors back to Indigenous communities. We offer a suite of NAGPRA procedures, as well as object-level fields, to support documenting NAGPRA work. We proudly have a growing community of institutions selecting CollectionSpace to support this important work.
News & Updates
Welcome New Implementer: University of Michigan
Please join us in welcoming the University of Michigan to the CollectionSpace community (again), and specifically to our community of NAGPRA users. Collections-holding units across campus...
Welcome New Implementer: William & Mary
Please join us in welcoming William & Mary to the CollectionSpace community. The campus collection features ethnographic and archaeology collections, many of which have not been previously...
CollectionSpace version 8.3 Release Announcement
The CollectionSpace team is so happy to announce the release of CollectionSpace Version 8.3. This has been a fun release to preview over the past couple of months, and now it is ready for all of...
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Learn more about using CollectionSpace to catalog and track your collections and enhance your collection management workflows.