Case Study: The Mariners’ Museum and Park achieves streamlined global asset access and 20% revenue growth with Acquia DAM

The Collections at the Mariners’ Museum and Park Travel the World With Widen

The Mariners’ Museum and Park cares for one of the world’s largest maritime collections — tens of thousands of objects, hundreds of thousands of photographs and books, and more than a million archival items — producing a massive volume of digital assets. Before 2017 those assets lived on scattered drives, CDs and servers with inconsistent indexing, making files difficult to find, causing repeated re-digitization, slow response times, and friction across teams.

To fix this they implemented the Widen Collective DAM as a single, metadata-driven source of truth with an intuitive UX and integrations. Nearly 100% staff adoption (supported by trained volunteers), Insights analytics showing global usage, and streamlined workflows cut image-request turnaround from days to minutes, delivered event photos within 24 hours, improved donor engagement, and helped drive roughly a 20% increase in revenue.

The Mariners’ Museum and Park

Marc Marsocci

Director of Interpretation