Serving the museum community since 1983

At Willoughby Associates, Limited, we've helped over 900 museums around the world automate their collections. All of our clients are unique, and all of them are important to us. Here are just a few examples of the wonderful institutions that make up our user community.

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Largest U.S. user of Multi MIMSY 2000.
• University of Alberta. Integrated fifteen separate Multi MIMSY 2000 databases containing over seventeen million records.
• Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art (CCCA). One of our most unique clients.
• Science Museum. A member of the UK LASSI Consortium.

If you would like more information about joining this prestigious group, please contact us for more information.

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Largest U.S. user of Multi MIMSY 2000.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the largest visual arts museum in the western United States, and the largest Multi MIMSY 2000 user in the United States, period. More than 80 people at LACMA use Multi MIMSY 2000 to manage and retrieve information about an extensive permanent collection of over 110,000 objects from ancient times to the cutting edge of today. Besides this tremendous art collection, LACMA also features outstanding special exhibitions, and extensive education, film and music programs. Working with LACMA on their collection involved one of the largest and most successful conversion projects Willoughby Associates has ever undertaken. For more information about LACMA, its collections, current programs and special exhibitions, visit www.lacma.org.

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University of Alberta
Integrated fifteen separate Multi MIMSY 2000 databases containing over 17 million records.

One of our first Multi MIMSY 2000 installations, the University of Alberta is among our largest and most technically impressive clients. The University has fifteen separate Multi MIMSY 2000 databases running, and so many users that they have created their own user group with its own extensive campus-wide online help system. These databases are used to manage an incredibly diverse set of collections that include over 17 million specimens, artifacts, and works of art. In addition, the University of Alberta is using their Multi MIMSY 2000 databases to drive extensive online search engines for many of its collections through their web site. For more information, please visit www.museums.ualberta.ca.

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Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art (CCCA)
One of our most unique clients.

Founded by Bill Kirby in 1995, The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art (CCCA) is among our most unique clients. Rather than being a traditional museum, the CCCA is a 'virtual arts organization' whose mission is to raise international awareness of Canada's professional artists. Besides offering other services both to and for the participating artists, CCCA is primarily an extensive database, driven by Multi MIMSY 2000, of Canadian visual artists and their works, as well as a portal to other Canadian visual arts resources on the web. Known as CCCAnet, this searchable database, which draws content directly out of the Multi MIMSY 2000 database, is available at the CCCA web site. Visit www.ccca.ca, or e-mail w.kirby@ccca.ca for more information.

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Science Museum
A member of the UK LASSI Consortium.

The Science Museum in London is part of The National Museum of Science and Industry (NMSI), and is among the most prestigious institutions of its kind in the world. They use Multi MIMSY 2000 to manage collections information for the whole of NMSI, including their sister institutions: The National Railway Museum in York, and The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford. These diverse collections include approximately 400,000 objects related to technology, industry, medicine, and other scientific disciplines. A member of the LASSI consortium, the Science Museum chose Multi MIMSY 2000 as a standard for collections management along with seven other institutions in the United Kingdom. With large numbers of interactive exhibits and presentations, as well as over 15,000 objects on display in the public galleries, the Science Museum stands as one of cornerstones of Kensington's famous 'museum row.' The Science Museum's web site features an impressive array of special online exhibits, and also gives details about the museum's considerable research and education efforts. visit www.nmsi.ac.uk.

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