Children's & Science Museum Software Built for Discovery.

Science centers and children’s museums have some of the most complex operational needs in the cultural sector. Birthday parties, summer camps, school group visits, traveling exhibitions, and family memberships are all running simultaneously on software that was never designed for any of them.

Muse science museum software is built on a single, unified platform that connects ticketing, membership, fundraising, retail, group tours, education programs, and private events in one place. Every constituent interaction automatically updates the same record.

For science centers, children’s museums, planetariums, and discovery institutions of every kind, Muse was built to make your mission easier, not harder. So your team spends less time fighting with software and more time sparking curiosity in every visitor who walks through your doors.

Yes. Muse handles the full private event lifecycle from initial inquiry to final payment, making it easy to manage birthday parties, corporate after-hours events, and private group experiences at your science center or children’s museum.

Booking requests, customizable proposals, deposit tracking, and installment payments are all built in, keeping the entire event management process in one place. And because every event client is connected to a constituent record, your team can automatically identify birthday party families as membership and donor prospects.

For science centers and children’s museums where birthday parties are a significant revenue stream, having event management connected to your ticketing, membership, and fundraising data means every celebration is the start of a longer relationship.

Yes. Muse supports group bookings, invoicing, and payment tracking for school group visits and field trips, making it easy for your team to manage high volumes of group visits without manual coordination or disconnected systems.

Group deposits and installment payments are automatically tracked, and every group visitor is linked to a constituent record, giving your development and membership teams visibility into group clients as prospective donors and members.

For science centers and children’s museums where school group visits and field trips are a core part of the educational mission, having group tour management built into the same platform as ticketing, membership, and fundraising means your team always has the full picture of every group relationship.

Yes. Muse supports online registration for science camps, coding workshops, after-school programs, family science nights, and any other education program your science center or children’s museum runs.

Customizable enrollment forms allow you to collect exactly the information you need, from emergency contacts and liability waivers to program-specific participant data. Member pricing, scholarship tracking, and program add-ons like extended care and meals are all built in.

And because every program participant is connected to a constituent record, your education team can see which families are members, which have never donated, and which are attending their first program, so every curious family becomes a deeper part of your institution’s community.

Yes. Muse supports flexible family membership programs with customizable tiers, automatic benefit recognition across every touchpoint, and digital membership cards for Apple Wallet and Google Wallet.

For science centers and children’s museums where family memberships are the foundation of the revenue model, Muse automates the full renewal cycle, manages reciprocal membership networks, and gives families a self-service portal to renew, update, and access their membership cards without contacting your team.

And because membership data lives in the same platform as ticketing, programs, and fundraising, your team can see which family members are also donors, which program families haven’t renewed, and which frequent visitors are your best membership prospects. All from one constituent record.

Muse identifies donor prospects by connecting visitor, member, retail, and program data into a single constituent record, giving your development team visibility into the full relationship every family has with your institution.

That means your development team can see that a science camp family whose children have attended every summer has never been invited to make a gift. Or that a frequent visitor who regularly spends in your gift shop has never been asked to support your programs.

For science centers and children’s museums where donor cultivation is essential to funding programs, exhibitions, and community outreach, having prospect identification built on unified data means your development team never has to guess who to cultivate next.

Muse connects ticketing, membership, and fundraising through a single, unified database, so every interaction a family has with your science center or children’s museum automatically updates the same record.

When a family registers for a science camp, books a birthday party, and buys tickets to a traveling exhibition, all in the same month, Muse connects every one of those interactions into a single constituent record. Every department sees the full picture of that family’s relationship with your institution, in real time, without manual reconciliation.

For science centers, children’s museums, and planetariums managing complex operations across ticketing, group visits, education programs, birthday parties, and fundraising, that level of connectivity is what separates Muse science center software from standalone tools that only see part of the picture.