Visit planning
Show current hours, access, and admission arrangements.
WEBSITES FOR MUSEUMS
Open the door to a little discovery.
A museum website should help visitors plan a visit and explore the collection's context. Give exhibitions, learning visits, and research enquiries distinct paths with accurate practical information.
museums.exampleProgrammes, dates, and current information in one place.
VisitExhibitionsCollectionsA PLACE TO GET INVOLVEDFind your
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01Visit
02Exhibitions
03Collections
04Learning and groups
Your website has a job to do
Help the right people take part
General visitors, families, educators, and people researching the collection.
Exhibition context
Distinguish permanent displays from dated exhibitions.
Learning routes
Explain school or group visit processes.
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The customer experience
Give each visitor a useful next step
General visitors, families, educators, and people researching the collection.
Choose the visit or topic
Find a useful starting route.
Explore the details
Read exhibition or planning information.
Plan or enquire
Use the appropriate visit or learning contact.
A structure for your site
What belongs on a museums website
Write from your actual offer. Use your own projects, photographs, service details, and business policies; label sample work and future plans clearly.
Find a design starting point- 01
Visit
Combine essential arrival and admission information.
- 02
Exhibitions
Present current and upcoming displays.
- 03
Collections
Share approved object stories and interpretation.
- 04
Learning and groups
Explain resources and visit enquiries.
Your design direction
A website that feels like your business.
A collection-led museum magazine with a practical visit-planning bar and exhibition stories.
Programme-led templates work well for schools and clubs. Editorial layouts support museums and nonprofit stories; event-led designs give performances and dated activities a clear place.
Use the concept's content hierarchy to organise your brief, then choose the actual template, publishing approach, and business tools around the work you need the site to do.
Connect the work behind the website
Make the handoff work.
These are tools and workflows to evaluate, not confirmed integrations or live Let.com features. Start with the systems your business already uses.
Ticketing
Evaluate the museum's maintained admission provider if used.
Collection records
Define how approved object information reaches public pages.
Confirm provider access, compatibility, ongoing costs, and who maintains each connection. A clear link to an established system can be a useful first step when a deeper integration is not needed.
Ready to go live?
Your museums launch checklist
Review these details with the person responsible for your business, then try the whole enquiry or purchasing route on a phone.
Verify opening and exhibition dates.- Check object-image rights and credits.
- Review access information with the venue team.
Finish with the actual next step.
Follow every important link, submit a realistic test enquiry through your chosen process, and confirm that the right person receives it. Check the confirmation text matches what happens next.
A little more clarity
Your questions, answered.
Should the whole collection be online at launch?
A curated selection can be more useful initially. Publish accurate object context and expand when records, permissions, and editorial ownership are ready.
What should a website for museums include first?
Start with the visitor decisions in this guide: visit planning, exhibition context, learning routes. Build the four-page content map with accurate business information, then add pages only when they answer a distinct question your customers actually have.
Are the integrations in this guide already included with Let.com?
These are planning considerations for your business workflow, not a list of confirmed Let.com integrations. Check the provider, access requirements, fees, and compatibility before committing to a tool. Let.com Shop and AI Website Builder are product previews. Native Shop plugins are included with a paid Shop plan; third-party WordPress extensions may require separate licenses.
Can I use the example design as a starting point?
The mini-site is an original design concept for this guide, with a fictional .example address. Use its hierarchy and content choices as inspiration, then explore the Let.com template gallery and confirm which design and publishing options are available for your project.
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