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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The Menil Collection
Spanning from the prehistoric era to the present day, the Menil Collection grew out of personal and intellectual passions rather than encyclopedic ambitions. The heart of the collection artworks and objects gathered by founders John and Dominique de Menil. Spanning from the prehistoric era to the present day, the Menil Collection grew out of personal and intellectual passions rather than encyclopedic ambitions. The heart of the collection artworks and objects gathered by founders John and Dominique de Menil.
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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 more
GoDaddy
used by 43 institutionsA web hosting and domain registration company that offers a range of services including website building and online marketing.
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.
Heroku
used by 10 institutionsA cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud.
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.
Google Maps
used by 162 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.
Stimulus
used by 17 institutionsA modest JavaScript framework that enhances HTML with behavior without taking over the entire front-end architecture.
LazySizes
used by 88 institutionsA lazy loading library for images, iframes, and other media that optimizes loading by only loading elements when they enter the viewport.
jQuery
used by 485 institutionsA fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversal, event handling, and animation.
Modernizr
used by 92 institutionsA JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the user’s browser, allowing for graceful degradation.
Select2
used by 51 institutionsA jQuery-based replacement for select boxes that supports searching, tagging, and remote data sets.
Hammer.js
used by 26 institutionsA JavaScript library for adding touch gestures to web applications, supporting multi-touch, and single-touch gestures.
Erlang
used by 8 institutionsA programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with high availability, known for its concurrency and fault-tolerance capabilities.
Cowboy
used by 8 institutionsA small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang/OTP that is optimized for low latency and low resource usage.
Spree
used by 7 institutionsAn open-source e-commerce platform built with Ruby on Rails, designed for flexibility and scalability.
