Solutions for Arts & GLAM Institutions

Preserve cultural heritage, enrich metadata, and deliver meaningful digital experiences that connect collections with communities.

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Ready to unlock your collections for preservation, inspiration, and engagement?

We unify your digital assets, automate preservation workflows, and build integrated ecosystems so you can safeguard cultural heritage, fuel creative programming, and deliver compelling experiences across every channel.

The arts, galleries, libraries, archives, and museum institutions balance dual mandates: preserving cultural heritage for future generations while actively engaging today's audiences through exhibitions, publications, education programs, and digital experiences. Our integrated solutions centralise digital assets in purpose-designed DAM systems, connect collection management platforms for enriching metadata and serve with public-facing channels, and ensure rich, searchable experiences that support both long-term stewardship and immediate creative needs.

Whether your teams are researching objects for scholarly publications, sourcing imagery for exhibition marketing, creating digital displays for gallery spaces, or developing educational content for schools, a unified digital ecosystem ensures collections are discoverable, rights-cleared, and ready to use. By connecting collection and digital asset management systems with creative workflows and public platforms, you reduce operational complexity, accelerate both access and activation of collections, and empower staff to deliver meaningful experiences that inspire visitors, researchers, educators, and communities.

How We Support Arts & GLAM Institutions

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Digital Asset Management (DAM) 

GLAM institutions manage extensive collections of visual, textual, and multimedia materials spanning centuries of cultural heritage. Our purpose-designed DAM solutions organise, preserve, and safeguard these assets in a secure, centralised repository with expansive metadata capabilities. Rich descriptive fields, cataloguing standards (like Dublin Core or SPECTRUM), and flexible taxonomies ensure collections are discoverable for preservation, research, exhibition development, and public access.

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Collection Management System Integration 

Your collection management system (CMS) holds vital object data, such as provenance, condition reports, acquisition details, and physical location. We integrate your CMS with DAM to automatically enrich digital assets with authoritative metadata, creating a unified view that supports both collections stewardship and creative activation. This connected ecosystem eliminates manual data re-entry and ensures accuracy across all platforms.

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Content Operations & Workflow Automation 

Exhibition curation, publication releases, and educational outreach involve intricate coordination across departments. By automating approvals, versioning, rights management, and content distribution workflows, you free your teams to focus on high-impact work like storytelling, scholarship, and audience engagement rather than administrative tasks.

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Public Access & Digital Experiences

Today's audiences expect rich digital engagement—from online collections portals and virtual exhibitions to digital displays in gallery spaces and educational resources. We connect your DAM and CMS to public-facing platforms, ensuring approved, rights-cleared content flows seamlessly to websites, touchscreens, mobile apps, and emerging channels, making collections accessible to visitors, researchers, and communities worldwide.

Creative Folks has a track record of delivering transformative digital solutions for cultural, educational, and institutional clients. Some of our trusted partners include:

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Book a complimentary 30-minute discovery session to discuss your institution's goals and discover how Creative Folks can help you preserve cultural heritage, streamline collection management, and deliver engaging digital experiences to your communities.

Frequently Asked Questions

DAM (Digital Asset Management) centralises your collections' digital assets—images, videos, manuscripts, audio recordings, and more—in a secure repository with rich metadata. It helps you preserve cultural heritage, supports research and exhibition development, ensures rights management, and makes collections discoverable for both staff and public audiences.

We connect your collection management system (CMS) with DAM to automatically enrich digital assets with authoritative object data—provenance, cataloguing information, condition reports, and physical location. This eliminates duplicate data entry, ensures accuracy across systems, and creates a unified view for both preservation and creative use.

Absolutely. Automation eliminates repetitive tasks like manual approvals, version tracking, rights clearances, and content distribution across channels. This frees your teams to focus on high-value work like exhibition curation, scholarly research, educational programming, and visitor engagement.

We implement granular permission controls and metadata management that balance broad public access with protection of sensitive materials. You can control who sees what—from open access for digitised collections to restricted access for conservation documentation or culturally sensitive items—while maintaining detailed audit trails.

By connecting your DAM to public-facing platforms, approved and rights-cleared content flows seamlessly to online collection portals, gallery touchscreens, mobile apps, virtual exhibitions, and educational resources. Update once in DAM, publish everywhere—without technical bottlenecks.

Yes. Our flexible approach scales with your collection size, staff capacity, and budget. Whether you're a community gallery or a national institution, we design ecosystems that grow with your needs and support long-term sustainability.

Unified data from ticketing systems, website analytics, and digital displays provides insights into visitor behaviour, exhibition popularity, and collection usage. These insights help you tailor programming, improve wayfinding, personalise experiences, and demonstrate impact to stakeholders and funders.

Schedule a consultation. We'll discuss your institution's goals, assess your current systems and workflows, and propose a tailored roadmap encompassing DAM, collection management integration, workflow automation, and public content delivery.