Case Study: MIT preserves and modernizes its Black History archive with MacPhee Design's Webflow rebuild

MIT migrates thousands of archival items to Webflow with MacPhee Design

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engaged MacPhee Design to migrate its aging MIT Black History Project website from a difficult-to-maintain Drupal 8 platform. The challenge was to preserve a vast archive of historical records and scholarly content while rebuilding it on a modern, self-sustaining foundation that would ensure its long-term accessibility.

MacPhee Design successfully migrated the content-rich archive to a new Webflow CMS. The solution created a fast, secure, and maintenance-free site where items are fully filterable and searchable in seconds. The vendor built the platform to be optimized for both traditional search engines and AI answer engines, ensuring the history surfaces widely. The result is a high-performance archive built to grow and serve students, scholars, and the public for years to come.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)