Hey Product Hunt 👋 I built Museum Vault for my grandmother. She volunteers at a small local museum — three rooms, two thousand artifacts, one terrifying spreadsheet that only she knows how to use. When I asked her what software they had, she pulled out a shoebox of yellowed index cards from 1978. Every "real" museum CMS I found was either $30k/year and built for the Met, or an abandoned WordPress plugin from 2014. So I built the thing she actually needed: index cards, but on the web. Large type. High contrast. No jargon. Volunteers learn it in an afternoon. What's inside: 🗂️ Catalog artifacts as horizontal cards (the physical metaphor matters) 🖼️ Public exhibitions in 4 hand-drawn themes 📷 QR labels, barcode scanning, CSV migration 📦 Video, loans tracking, inventory audits — all on the Free tier The pricing philosophy: give away features, gate on scale. Free isn't crippled — you get every core tool. We only charge when your collection outgrows 250 artifacts or 5 GB. Pro $39 🎁 Hunter exclusive: code HUNTER = Pro free for 3 months. First 100 redemptions. I'd love to hear from anyone who's volunteered at a small museum, historical society, or family archive. What does your shoebox look like? 📦

Museum Vault

Where small museums keep big stories.

Where small museums keep big stories.