Culture Index exists to catalog cultural institutions online, and highlight the best practices that inspire us.
Launching with a focus on museums and building from there, we are a resource for both research and discovery. Browse information about online communications, and discover ideas with examples of what’s possible for cultural institutions in the digital space.
As a community project facilitated by Base, we invite you to use and contribute to this growing resource.
Institute of Modern Art
The Institute of Modern Art (IMA) is one of the Asia-Pacific’s most important, visible, and relevant forums for contemporary visual art. The IMA champions contemporary art, artists, and ideas, connecting local voices to global dialogues via inclusive, sustainable, and innovative institutional practice. Founded in 1975, the IMA is Australia’s oldest independent public art gallery and has been at the centre of the Queensland arts ecology for 48 years.
Tech Specs
Tech Specs
Performance
Accessibility
Best Practices
SEO
Performance
Accessibility
Best Practices
SEO
MailChimp
used by 159 institutionsMailchimp is a widely-used marketing platform that helps businesses manage and automate email campaigns. It offers tools for creating, sending, and analyzing emails, as well as managing subscriber lists. Read more
Google Analytics (GA4)
used by 317 institutionsGoogle's analytics platform that offers advanced tracking and analysis capabilities across web and app data for enhanced user behavior insights. Read more
PHP
used by 484 institutionsA popular open-source scripting language widely used for web development and server-side applications. Read more
Nginx
used by 214 institutionsA high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy known for its stability, rich feature set, and low resource consumption. Read more
Amazon Web Services
used by 114 institutionsA comprehensive cloud computing platform offering a wide range of services for computing, storage, databases, analytics, machine learning, and more.
MailChimp
used by 151 institutionsMailchimp is a widely-used marketing platform that helps businesses manage and automate email campaigns. It offers tools for creating, sending, and analyzing emails, as well as managing subscriber lists. Read more
Amazon S3
used by 38 institutionsAmazon's scalable storage service for object data that offers high durability, security, and performance for data storage and retrieval.
Cloudflare
used by 201 institutionsA global network service that provides content delivery network (CDN), DDoS mitigation, internet security, and distributed domain name server services.
jsDelivr
used by 75 institutionsA free and open-source CDN for web development that supports JavaScript libraries, CSS frameworks, and other assets from multiple sources.
Unpkg
used by 47 institutionsA fast, global CDN for everything on npm, making it easy to load JavaScript modules and other files from the npm registry.
cdnjs
used by 95 institutionsA free and open-source content delivery network for JavaScript libraries, enabling faster loading of web pages by serving files from distributed servers.
WordPress
used by 293 institutionsWordPress is a popular, open-source content management system (CMS) that powers over 40% of websites. Initially a blogging platform, it now supports various sites with customizable themes and plugins. Known for its user-friendly interface, WordPress is used by both beginners and professionals to create and manage websites. Read more
WordPress
used by 299 institutionsWordPress is a popular, open-source content management system (CMS). Initially a blogging platform, it now supports various sites with customizable themes and plugins. WordPress is used by both beginners and professionals to create and manage websites. Read more
MySQL
used by 274 institutionsAn open-source relational database management system widely used for web applications and data storage.
Google Maps
used by 171 institutionsGoogle Maps is a web-based service that provides detailed maps, satellite imagery, and street views of locations worldwide. It offers navigation, real-time traffic updates, and route planning for various modes of travel. Widely used for its accuracy and comprehensive features.
RSS
used by 170 institutionsRSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a web feed format used to publish frequently updated content such as blog posts, news articles, and podcasts. It allows users to subscribe to feeds from their favorite websites and receive updates in a standardized, easy-to-read format. This helps users stay informed without needing to visit multiple websites.
WooCommerce
used by 45 institutionsAn open-source e-commerce plugin for WordPress that enables the creation of fully functional online stores.
core-js
used by 364 institutionsA modular standard library for JavaScript that provides polyfills for ECMAScript features.
jQuery
used by 537 institutionsA fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversal, event handling, and animation.
Select2
used by 54 institutionsA jQuery-based replacement for select boxes that supports searching, tagging, and remote data sets.
DreamHost
used by 6 institutionsA web hosting provider that offers shared, VPS, and dedicated hosting, as well as domain registration and cloud services.
