Case Study: Minneapolis Institute of Art achieves secure, self-serve access to its collection and streamlined rights management with OpenText MediaBin

Minneapolis Institute of Art secures its collection with Digital Asset Management

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), one of the largest U.S. art museums with a collection spanning nearly 90,000 objects, faced growing difficulty managing and sharing its expanding library of digital images, videos and other media. Reliance on manual requests, paper-based rights tracking and a legacy scanned collection created delays, duplication and an unsustainable workload for the media team.

Mia implemented OpenText™ MediaBin Digital Asset Management as a central, feature-rich repository with automated tagging, custom metadata and an API link to its collection management system. The DAM now holds roughly 250,000 assets (adding ~15,000 annually), gives about 100 regular users self-serve access to high-quality renditions, streamlines rights and workflow management, improves discovery and collaboration, and helps protect the museum’s content while advancing its mission to educate and engage.

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Daniel Dennehy

Senior Photographer and Head of Visual Resources