If you have any questions along the way were always here to help. The goal is to have virtually everything accessioned. This page was last edited on 6 february 2018, at 07. The software can also be requested for downloading. The center explores peoplecentered stories, documents softwareinaction, and leverages the museums rich collections to tell the story of software.
Pastperfect is a comprehensive museum software which comes with a great deal of training opportunities, online, classes note in canada, cds and knowledgebased videos and more. Utilize pastperfect museum software to record and organize data assist with the creation of new exhibits such as recent a familys attic. Pastperfect is a live dvd by vnv nation that was released on may 4, 2004 containing. In addition to the many direct benefits of membership, institutional members can add all their staff members, board members, and dedicated volunteers to the membership account, giving them access to most benefits of membership. Museums for america institute of museum and library. Arizona historical society museum at papago park tempe. At a recent museum conference, i attended a session where several new and mostly free open source collections management software was described. Cdrs and dvdrs are the preferred external media for several reasons. Small museum manager, software tour, screens simple, easytouse. Building on this training, our group offers the added benefit of meeting in person to discuss and exchange exchange ideas and experiences with a particular emphasis on. The museum archive software project is still going strong about 4500 downloads todate as of 912011. Two of the most important features of the updated pastperfect software are the search capabilities which enable users to access different collections at the same time and the ability to attach.
The center seeks to put history to work today in gauging where we are, where we have been. This software does so many components of the museum field and can keep everything organized. Pastperfect is the worlds leading software program for collection and contact management. Seeking a museum collections intern iberville museum. Desktop software for all your museum management needs. Below is the list of the new features provided in the latest downloadable updates to pastperfect version 5. Pastperfect allows for quick and easy access to information regarding filson holdings for staff members and patrons who are visiting the society. Museums, historical societies, schools, nonprofits, and other groups can now organize their collections without spending valuable resources on collection management database software. Institutional memberships provide history organizations of all sizes and shapes with resources, services, learning opportunities, and more. Combined with donations from the rotary club of maui and former trustee zadoc brown, jr. A journey to the past, a map to the future, on saturday, may 25 the exhibit is a groundbreaking approach to the story of the atchafalaya basin, americas largest wetland and swamp, and its relationship with the people who made it their home for nearly 100 years. This was my first time working with a museums collection and i had little instruction on what to do, but the layout and functions of this software was so intuitive.
Pastperfect backup recommendations pastperfect software. Pastperfect legacy quality software for nearly 20 years. We now have all of our pictures digitally scanned and saved in pastperfect, the museum software employed at the museum. An addon component, pastperfect online, makes it easy to make selections from your catalog accessible online and to. Brian gomez business profile pastperfect software inc. Where can i get a deal on pastperfect museum software. The pastperfect museum software user guides provide clear and detailed explanations of nearly all the collection management tasks listed above. Software updates are released to correct problems and add new features to the pastperfect program.
This site has been created for our clients to see what is possible with the newest version of pastperfect online. There is a new import utility that accepts csv files created by a spreadsheet program. Pastperfect is capable of backing up to cds, dvds, flash drives, and external hard drives. The pastperfect museum software is designed for museums, but is also used by various institutions, including libraries, archives, and natural history collections, for the database storage of artifacts, documents, photographs and books. We are the worlds leader in museum collection and contact management software. We are the worlds leader in collection and contact management software. Pastperfect does offer an online option, but that isnt a practical option for the wschs at this time. The intern will work directly with our directorcurator on a collections management project focused on. Used by over 9500 museums, pastperfect is affordable, comprehensive, and easytouse. Pastperfect legacy quality software for over 20 years.
Worked great and had a lot of ways to track things that you didnt realize that you could or track in a database format, such as donors, volunteers, volunteer hours, dont take my word for it 100%. Below, i have outlined several of the most promising systems. Arizona historical society pioneer museum, flagstaff flagstaff. This software is free no time limits, no usage limits, no registration requirements, no spyware. Because they can only be written to once, the discs do not wear out over time and they help you start a.
This installation file contains the main exe, a readonly viewer, a web server, and an importexport utility. The last date on which the word list was rebuilt will appear in the yellow box at the top right of the screen. Used by over 10,000 museums, pastperfect offers affordable, comprehensive, and easytouse software for organizations of all sizes. The fast, affordable, and secure way to create a fully searchable online catalog of your pastperfect data. While the system works, if your are a museum required to log all of your exhibitions with the software, it is incredibly timeconsuming to add artists, dates, information on several pages for each item and then to have to independently create an exhibit or event, and then separately log the loan, all before having to go back and add images and make all of these separate sources. Used by over 1 museums, pastperfect is affordable, comprehensive.
Over 1 museums, historical societies, archives, libraries, and other collecting. The collectionspace team and community is made up of museum professionals, software engineers, and interaction designers. Hey new england museum association conference attendees. X was designed to run on windows 98, windows me, and windows xp. The museum uses the pastperfect museum software platform to catalog and inventory their holdings, but until now, a single computer in the museums triggs reference room has been the only means of viewing the digitized items. Research 201 remove marked records before you view or print the resulting records list, you. Collections management, archives, conservation and web publishing software solutions finding the right technologies and services to best support your collections management needs starts here. It is designed for museums, but may be used by various institutions including libraries, archives, and natural history collections. In addition, efforts are being made to accession many other items and objects that have been donated to the museum over the years.
The internship will help prepare the candidate for a career in museums and collections management, granting them experience in a small local history museum. Readytouse database templates and the userfriendly interface let you easily and quickly organize your collections. Pastperfect allows for the database storage of artifacts, documents, photographs, and library books. Extensive and robust, as well as welltrusted and wellknown, museum software that, once learned, provides excellent transferable skills to other institutions and museum software platforms pastperfect is a name most museum folks recognize, for good reason. I use it for the various artifact records, volunteer management. Arizona historical society sanguinetti house museum yuma. A sidebyside comparison of museum collection management. The software history center collects and preserves historical software, archives, and oral histories.
Pastperfect museum software is an application for collections archiving. You can export these lists to excel, and bartender can use excel as a data source, so youd think this would be a pretty easy workflow, and for the most part it is. Longmont is a town of 95,000 people about 30 miles north of denver, and the longmont museum is the. Pastperfect recommends assigning twopart numbers, such as 2001. One of our collections uses museum softwares pastperfect database, and as part of the barcoding project, theyre making lists of objects to have barcode labels printed for. The iberville museum association seeks to hire 1 collections intern for the summer of 2019. You can use it to manage your museums cataloging, acquisitions, loans, and many other activities. Collections managers and registrars who had first hand experience using them presented the information.