Case Study: Natural History Museum (London) achieves digital evolution and unified collections access with Axiell EMu

Natural History Museum - Customer Case Study

The Natural History Museum in London, custodian of roughly 70–80 million specimens and a large scientific staff, needed to make its vast, discipline-spanning collections and research databases searchable, harmonised and accessible to researchers, staff, visitors and partner institutions. To tackle digitisation, crowdsourcing and complex georeferenced searchability, the museum partnered with Axiell to implement the EMu collections management system.

Axiell’s EMu delivered a single, museum-wide database that standardised processes, improved efficiency and empowered curators—notably producing dramatic improvements in the Fish Group—and supported large-scale digitisation projects (for example, making some 500,000 butterflies and moths externally accessible). The EMu rollout was completed on time and under budget and measurably increased professionalism in collection management, data accessibility and sharing across the Natural History Museum.

Natural History Museum

Darrell J. Siebert

Natural History Museum