Absolutely. We design museum and arts websites that make it easy for users to browse collections, explore exhibitions, register for events, purchase tickets, or become members.
Arts organizations have genuinely complex content relationships, and getting the structure right before design is what separates a site that scales from one that needs rebuilding in two years.
An exhibition has a run of dates, related programs, associated works, contributing artists, sponsors, and its own ticketing. A performance has multiple dates and times, a cast, a venue, seating configurations, and different price tiers. A collection object has an artist, a date, a medium, provenance, current location, and may appear in several exhibitions over time.
Modeling those relationships properly means an exhibition page can automatically surface its related programs, an artist page can list every work and appearance, and a calendar can assemble itself. Modeling them badly means staff manually maintaining the same information in five places.
Most arts organizations run a dedicated ticketing platform. Tessitura is common among larger performing arts organizations and museums. Spektrix is widely used by mid-sized organizations. Others run AudienceView, Ticketure, or a general-purpose tool.
The website's job is usually to present programming beautifully and hand off cleanly, rather than to rebuild ticketing. The important decisions are where the handoff happens, how much of the transaction stays on your domain, and whether the checkout meets accessibility requirements.
That last point deserves emphasis. Ticketing embeds are the most common accessibility failure in this sector, and vendor conformance should be evaluated during selection rather than discovered after launch.
If you have a collections management system such as TMS, PastPerfect, or CollectiveAccess, the question is how much of it belongs on the public site. Rarely all of it.
A curated selection with real interpretation usually serves visitors better than a full database dump with thin records. Where a full searchable collection is the goal, it needs its own information architecture, and image rights need to be settled per object rather than assumed.
Arts calendars are harder than they look. Recurring events, multi-date runs, sold-out states, member presales, and cancellations all have to be handled, and the calendar is frequently the most-visited page on the site.
Filtering by date, program type, and audience matters more than visual sophistication. Someone deciding what to do Saturday needs an answer quickly.
Membership sits between ticketing and fundraising, and often lives in the ticketing platform. Presenting tiers clearly, communicating benefits concretely, and making renewal effortless does more for retention than most campaigns.
We map your content relationships and the systems that already hold them before designing anything. That conversation is unglamorous and it determines whether the site works for the next several years.
For related reading see accessibility requirements for arts organizations, or explore our museum and arts website design.
