Articles tagged under australian museum

Exhibitions and events are an integral part of the life of any cultural institution, so how to handle ticketing is of vital importance. In this article we look at how we integrated one of the most popular systems used by museums and galleries around the world and how we got it to play nicely with our clients' brands.

As part of our work on rebuilding the Australian Museum website a key aspect was developing and implementing the visual design. And like any design project, the Australian Museum website had its own set of unique challenges worth discussing.

It all began with a Tweet: Your website design is impossible to read! White words on a white background don’t work!... clearly something is wrong here, but what exactly?

As part of the site rebuild for the Australian Museum, we integrated the website with Centaman, a system used for ticketing, memberships and as a general CRM. In this post, we outline our technical approach, and flag interesting features of the Django + Wagtail + PostgreSQL stack we use to build custom websites

The Interaction Consortium recently undertook a large and complex data migration – involving more than 10,000 pages – during the site rebuild for the Australian Museum. We outline the best practice principles we applied to the Australian Museum website migration, which we use for all the large data migrations we undertake. We also go into detail about specific approaches we use involving Django and Wagtail.

The IC is thrilled to announce the launch of the new website for the Australian Museum, and to congratulate the Australian Museum (AM) team on this site winning the 2019 Museums Australasia Multimedia & Publication Design Awards (MAPDA) Institution Website level B award.