Your Natural History Museum Software Should Be as Modern as Your Thinking.

Most natural history museums are either juggling multiple disconnected systems or working around a legacy platform that wasn’t built with their specific operational needs in mind. Either way, the result is the same: your team spends more time managing software than inspiring visitors.

Muse’s natural history museum management software is built on a single unified platform, connecting ticketing, membership, fundraising, retail, group tours, education programs, and private events in one place. Every constituent interaction automatically updates the same record.

For natural history museums of every size, Muse was built to make your mission easier, not harder. So your team spends less time fighting with software and more time inspiring curiosity about the natural world.

Yes. Muse supports timed ticketing with capacity controls, making it easy to manage entry to traveling exhibitions alongside general admission. You can set entry windows, limit attendance by time slot, and offer combo tickets that bundle general admission with access to the traveling exhibition.

For natural history museums running blockbuster traveling shows alongside permanent collection access, Muse handles every ticket type, pricing tier, and capacity scenario your front desk encounters without the complexity that slows your team down on your busiest days.

And because every ticket sale connects to a constituent record, your team gains visibility into which exhibition visitors are members, which are prospective donors, and which are attending for the first time.

Yes. Muse supports group bookings, invoicing, and payment tracking for school group visits and educational tours, 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 natural history museums where school group visits 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, nature walks, fossil-dig experiences, family workshops, and any other educational programs your natural history 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 program participant becomes part of your institution’s story for years to come.

Yes. Muse handles the full private event lifecycle from initial inquiry to final payment, making it easy to manage the wide range of private events that natural history museums host.

Evenings among the fossils. Cocktails beside a T-Rex. Corporate dinners in the hall of mammals. Whatever the setting, Muse manages bookings, generates proposals, tracks deposits and installment payments, and connects every rental client to the constituent record that powers your whole institution.

For natural history museums where private events are both a significant revenue stream and a community engagement opportunity, having venue rentals connected to your CRM, membership, and fundraising data means every event client is a prospective donor, member, or long-term institutional supporter.

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 person has with your institution.

That means your development team can see that a frequent visitor who attends every traveling exhibition has never donated. Or that a science camp family whose children have attended for three summers has never been asked to give.

For natural history museums where donor cultivation is essential to funding exhibitions, research, and education programs, 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 constituent has with your natural history museum automatically updates the same record.

When a family visits a traveling dinosaur exhibition, Muse connects that visit to everything else your institution knows about them. Are they a member? Have their children attended science camp? Have they ever donated? Your whole team sees the same complete picture without switching between systems or pulling separate reports.

For natural history museums managing complex operations across ticketing, group tours, education programs, private events, and fundraising, that level of connectivity is what separates Muse natural history museum software from standalone tools that only see part of the picture.