One object record — provenance, conservation, condition — that follows the work between institutions.
One object record — provenance, conservation, and condition — that follows the work between institutions, instead of fragmenting every time a piece moves. A temporary loan flips only who is holding it; a permanent disposition moves the entire history to the new owner. It is collections management with the object, not the institution, at the center.
What's included
Canonical accession record — provenance chain, conservation history, and condition reports live on the object and follow it
Temporary exhibition loans flip only the physical holder; ownership and the full record stay with the lender, and the object returns
Permanent dispositions (sale, gift, repatriation, transfer) move a permission, never a copy — the entire history follows to the new owner
Provenance chain with due-diligence flags (1933–45 Nazi-era gaps, antiquity / repatriation concerns) — the moat for art-museum stewardship
Conservation: examinations, treatments, materials analysis; condition reporting with a phone-first registrar board at /registrar
Catalog with accession number, classification, maker, medium, dimensions, credit line, department
CMS-companion posture: TMS / PastPerfect / CollectionSpace stays the catalog of record, or flip isSystemOfRecord for unaccredited holders
About this module
Museums & Collections lives at /museum and fixes the thing that makes collections stewardship fragile: the record scattering every time an object travels. Here the canonical accession record — provenance chain, conservation history, condition reports — lives on the object itself and follows it. Lend a piece to another institution for an exhibition and only the physical holder changes; ownership and the full record stay with you, the lender, and the object comes back with its history continuous. Sell, gift, repatriate, or transfer it permanently and the entire record moves to the new owner as a permission grant, never a fragmented export.
Provenance is the moat, and it is treated like one. The provenance chain carries due-diligence flags — 1933–45 Nazi-era gaps, antiquity and repatriation concerns — so the questions serious stewardship has to answer are surfaced, not buried. Conservation records (examinations, treatments, materials analysis) and condition reporting run from a phone-first registrar board at /registrar, and the catalog carries accession number, classification, maker, medium, dimensions, credit line, and department.
It is built to complement, not fight, what you already run. TMS, PastPerfect, or CollectionSpace can stay your catalog of record while Turtini owns loans, condition, and the record that follows the object — or, for an unaccredited holder without a collections management system, flip it to system-of-record and run the whole thing here.
What you can do with it
Keep one accession record — provenance, conservation, condition — that follows the object between institutions
Lend for an exhibition by flipping only the holder, with your record staying continuous and the piece returning
Transfer ownership permanently as a permission grant that carries the entire history
Flag the provenance gaps due diligence has to answer — Nazi-era, antiquity, repatriation
Run conservation and condition reporting from a phone-first registrar board
Get this module
Free for all Turtini organizations.
Who it's for
- Art, history, and natural-history museums that lend and borrow and need the record to survive the move
- University collections, historical societies, and galleries that steward provenance
- Private collectors who want a serious, portable record of what they hold
Details
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