The whole collection story
Accessions, artifacts, donors, custody, locations, photographs, research, labels, reports, and public presentation stay connected.
Purpose-built for small museums
From the first photograph to the story you share.
MCVM brings serious collections management, optional AI assistance, professional labels, public sharing, and recoverable data protection into one thoughtful Windows application.
Your museum remains in control: people review the evidence, decide the wording, approve the official record, and choose what becomes public.
See the record become a public story →MCVM Collection Manager 1.0
Powerful enough to manage your collection. Simple enough to actually use.
Watch the 90-second commercial, then inspect current screens and finished museum outputs from the fictional Riverview demonstration collection.
A different kind of museum software
Professional stewardship without enterprise overhead.
MCVM was designed inside a working small museum—not adapted from inventory software and not imagined for an institution with dedicated registrars and IT staff.
Museum-controlled AI
AI proposes; the museum reviews. Suggestions do not silently become official facts, ownership decisions, or public content.
Your data stays yours
The working collection stays local. MCVM verifies complete backups and publishes only records and media the museum approves.
Photograph. Understand. Document. Interpret. Share.
One guided path from object to public story.
1
Photograph
Use ordinary photographs, including iPhone HEIC images.
2
Identify
AI can suggest objects and draft structured information.
3
Review
Staff approve, correct, reject, and add museum knowledge.
4
Research
Develop context while preserving sources and uncertainty.
5
Create the label
Produce a professional PDF with exact preview.
6
Share deliberately
Approve selected facts and media for the public website.
Collection work stays connected
Receive it once. Build on the record for years.
Document how an object arrived, connect it to its donor or lender, create artifact records, attach photographs, record custody and locations, research its history, and carry approved information into labels, books, reports, and public pages.
Explore the complete feature set →The tools museums ask for
One application, several kinds of museum work.
Accession & Catalog
Donations, loans, accessions, artifact records, photographs, documents, and archives.
Care & Custody
Locations, movements, outgoing loans, returns, missing-item work, and condition.
Interpret
Research, AI-assisted review, professional labels, reports, and Museum Book.
Share
A museum-controlled public collection website built only from approved records and media.
Designed around recovery
Your collection is too important for a backup that merely says “completed.”
MCVM distinguishes live data from restore-ready backups, verifies complete archives, preserves recovery paths, and explains when protection is incomplete.
How MCVM Protects DataVerified complete backups
Database and linked museum files are checked together.
Protected changes
Primary and Emergency Change Protection PINs support museum continuity without claiming user identity or institutional approval.
Local ownership
The museum controls its working collection and backup destinations.
Preparing for release
Interested in MCVM for your museum?
MCVM is preparing for controlled outside-museum installations. Public purchasing and downloads are not yet open.