Museum Website Design
Digital experiences built around collections, not templates.
Museum and heritage websites carry a particular responsibility: making rich collections and scholarship approachable without flattening them. We design and build sites that put the work first — clear wayfinding, considered typography, and content structures that curatorial and learning teams can maintain themselves.
Expertise
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Collections & exhibition pages
Content structures that scale from a single object page to a major exhibition.
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Accessibility-first design
Built for the widest possible audience, including assistive technology users.
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Ticketing & visitor information integration
Practical information sitting comfortably alongside editorial content.
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Editorially-led content modelling
A CMS that reflects how curatorial and learning teams actually think about content.
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Digital learning resources
Supporting formal and informal learning audiences online.
How we'd work together
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Discovery
Understanding your goals, users and constraints before anything is designed.
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Content & information architecture
Structuring content so it's easy to maintain and easy to find.
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Design
Prototyping and refining the experience with you.
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Build
Development, accessibility and performance testing.
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Launch
A considered go-live, with redirects and analytics in place.
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Continuous improvement
Support and iteration once real users are on the site.
Working with
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Featured work
Frequently asked questions
Yes — we've worked with a range of collections management systems and can advise on the most practical integration approach for your setup.
Yes. Accessibility is a first-class concern on every project, and museum and heritage audiences are often broader and more diverse than many commercial sites plan for.
That's exactly the kind of thing the content model is designed around — opening hours, ticketing links and visitor notices should be editable by whoever owns that information, not routed through a developer.
Let's work together
Nick Lee