DB Museum and Deutsche Bahn AG Historical Collection Select Axiell to Manage Collections

DB Museum, Fahrzeughalle, Mike Beims
© Copyright DB Museum, Fahrzeughalle, Mike Beims

Axiell helps the world’s oldest railway museum and the world’s second largest transport company improve access and drive efficiency by centralising their huge collections

Potsdam, July 10, 2018 – Axiell, the leading vendor of collections management software to archives, libraries and museums, today announces that it has been selected by the DB Museum and the historical collection of Deutsche Bahn AG, to manage their extensive collections. The collections, containing items that vary from meeting transcripts to classic trains, will now be manageable from a central point. This simplifies workflows for staff and makes the collection more accessible for researchers.

The challenge of this project lay in bringing multiple large collections, across multiple sites, together into a central solution. Axiell’s Adlib Collections Management System is highly scalable and allows for multiple collections to be managed from a single place. This means museum and archive users can easily catalogue content, manage metadata and create links between files, streamlining workflows throughout both institutions.

The DB Museum was founded in 1882 and is the oldest railway museum in the world. Across 6,800 m², it presents countless exhibits from the history of rail in Germany. The collection includes posters and advertising signs as well as furniture and original vehicles. The museum is located in Nuremberg, but also has sites in Koblenz and Halle.

Christina Block, scientific advisor, DB Museum, comments on the collaboration: “We were looking for a new, contemporary solution. Axiell Adlib was chosen because it enables us to centrally manage the large number of different exhibits and media. This not only simplifies our daily work and makes processes more efficient, but means we can also make the information more easily available for research purposes.”

Contact:

Klaus Bulle, Geschäftsführer Axiell ALM Deutschland

k.bulle@axiell.com

About Adlib

Adlib was developed for museums of all sizes and for all types of collection. The solution enables users to catalogue according to international standards, to manage multimedia, texts or metadata, and physical object locations or to create flexible and automated reports. Adlib users include over 1600 cultural heritage institutions around the world, including the British Film Institute, the Van Gogh Museum and the Vienna Technical Museum.

About Axiell

Axiell serves libraries, schools, archives, museums and authorities with technically advanced and innovative solutions developed in close cooperation with its customers in 55 countries. More than 3000 library organisations with thousands of branches use an Axiell library management system and Axiell Arena, a tool for the virtual library. The systems for archives, libraries and museums are used by over 3400 cultural institutions over the world. In addition, more than 3000 schools use an Axiell system. The Axiell Group, headquartered in Lund, has more than 310 employees based out of 26 offices in Sweden, Australia, Abu Dhabi, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK and the USA. Together, we form one of the world’s largest companies in these sectors. To find out more about us and our products, please visit https://www.axiell.com.

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