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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Culture Index

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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Tech Specs

Performance

64

Accessibility

87

Best Practices

74

SEO

82

Performance

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Accessibility

92

Best Practices

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SEO

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  • Lodash

    A modern JavaScript utility library that provides helpful functions for common programming tasks, such as manipulating arrays and objects.

    used by 69 institutions
  • core-js

    A modular standard library for JavaScript that provides polyfills for ECMAScript features.

    used by 329 institutions
  • jQuery

    A fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversal, event handling, and animation.

    used by 485 institutions
  • Select2

    A jQuery-based replacement for select boxes that supports searching, tagging, and remote data sets.

    used by 51 institutions
  • Moment.js

    A JavaScript library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates and times.

    used by 70 institutions
  • MailChimp

    Mailchimp 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
    used by 149 institutions
  • Google Analytics (GA4)

    Google's analytics platform that offers advanced tracking and analysis capabilities across web and app data for enhanced user behavior insights. Read more
    used by 285 institutions
  • MailChimp

    Mailchimp 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
    used by 141 institutions
  • Google Maps

    Google 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.

    used by 162 institutions
  • Cloudflare

    A global network service that provides content delivery network (CDN), DDoS mitigation, internet security, and distributed domain name server services.

    used by 178 institutions
  • Unpkg

    A fast, global CDN for everything on npm, making it easy to load JavaScript modules and other files from the npm registry.

    used by 42 institutions
  • Java

    A versatile, object-oriented programming language that is widely used for building enterprise-scale applications and cross-platform software.

    used by 9 institutions
  • Handlebars

    A simple templating language for creating dynamic HTML content using expressions and logic within templates.

    used by 15 institutions