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.
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MASI Lugano
The Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI Lugano) was born in 2015 from the union between the Museo Cantonale d'Arte and the Museo d'Arte della Città di Lugano, public institutions that have been active in the city for decades. Thanks to its privileged position at the cultural crossroads between the south and north of the Alps, in just a few years the MASI has established itself as one of the most visited art museums in Switzerland.
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MailChimp
used by 149 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 285 institutionsGoogle's analytics platform that offers advanced tracking and analysis capabilities across web and app data for enhanced user behavior insights. Read moreFacebook Pixel
used by 191 institutionsA code snippet that tracks visitor actions on your website to optimize ad targeting and measure the effectiveness of Facebook advertising campaigns.
Matomo Analytics
used by 64 institutionsAn open-source web analytics platform that provides comprehensive user behavior data while emphasizing data ownership and privacy. 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
Swiper
used by 116 institutionsA modern touch slider library for creating responsive and mobile-friendly sliders and carousels.
core-js
used by 329 institutionsA modular standard library for JavaScript that provides polyfills for ECMAScript features.
jQuery
used by 485 institutionsA fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversal, event handling, and animation.
PhotoSwipe
used by 23 institutionsA JavaScript library for creating responsive and touch-friendly image galleries that open in a full-screen lightbox.
Amazon Web Services
used by 107 institutionsA comprehensive cloud computing platform offering a wide range of services for computing, storage, databases, analytics, machine learning, and more.
MailChimp
used by 141 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 36 institutionsAmazon's scalable storage service for object data that offers high durability, security, and performance for data storage and retrieval.
Cloudflare
used by 178 institutionsA global network service that provides content delivery network (CDN), DDoS mitigation, internet security, and distributed domain name server services.
Java
used by 9 institutionsA versatile, object-oriented programming language that is widely used for building enterprise-scale applications and cross-platform software.
