One of my main responsibilities consisted in bringing together six different data bases of the various collections from the Wien Museum: the main database of objects (»730,000 data sets), separated databases of the fashion collection (»56,000 data sets) and the photo archive (»20,000 data sets), two databases of the Archaeology collection (»140,000 data sets) and finally the database of the inventory project (»450,000 data sets).
 
To achieve this goal it was my duty first to acquire and later on to run a collection management system. After many negotiations we opted for  MuseumPlus from the Swiss company zetcom. MuseumPlus is a complete collection management system especially designed for the multi-faceted tasks in museums.
 
We integrated approximately 1 million different data sets into MuseumPlus, about 140,000 data sets are artefacts of the Archaeology collection.

by Frauke Kreutler

(Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria)