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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National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity. Admission is always free. NGA, founded as a gift to the nation, serves as a center of visual art, education, and culture. The collection of more than 150,000 paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, photographs, prints, and drawings spans the history of Western art and showcases some of the triumphs of human creativity. Across 363 days a year, the National Gallery offers a full spectrum of special exhibitions and public programs free of charge.
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Lodash
used by 86 institutionsA modern JavaScript utility library that provides helpful functions for common programming tasks, such as manipulating arrays and objects.
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.
Moment.js
used by 75 institutionsA JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates and times.
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
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
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.
Cloudflare
used by 201 institutionsA global network service that provides content delivery network (CDN), DDoS mitigation, internet security, and distributed domain name server services.
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.
Java
used by 10 institutionsA versatile, object-oriented programming language that is widely used for building enterprise-scale applications and cross-platform software.
Handlebars
used by 15 institutionsA simple templating language for creating dynamic HTML content using expressions and logic within templates.