We've worked on major systems for clients such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, the British Museum, UK police forces, Marks & Spencer, Getty Images, the BBC, the Royal Academy of Arts, National Galleries of Scotland, the National Space Centre, the Crafts Council, the Royal Institute of British Architects and Foster+Partners. We are equally at home working with small or specialist collections, and our software serves the likes of Aston Martin Heritage Trust, the Garden City Collection, the Charles Dickens Museum, Fusilier Museum London, the Garrick Club and Silverstone Museum, to name but a few. Outside the UK, our clients include Nova Scotia Museum, the Chopin Museum in Warsaw, Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts, USA, Sierra Leone National Railway Museum, and several major private collections.
We have a record of long and close relationships with our customers, in some cases dating from the 1980s and 1990s. We greatly value close client engagement in the specification, design, implementation and testing of new features, and are proud that this is the norm, rather than the exception, across our client base. Many core features of CollectionsIndex+ are the result of client-commissioned product enhancements.
We are committed to setting and implementing information standards and have served on national, regional and international standards committees. We are founder members of the Collections Trust's Spectrum Partners scheme, and corporate members of the UK Registrars Group.
System Simulation specialises in collections management systems, supplying standards-compliant products for museum documentation, archives cataloguing, bibliographic cataloguing, film library management and document, image, and digital asset management. We also work in interpretation and presentation with our integrated public web interface CollectionsOnline.
Our experience at all levels of the system stack gives us unique experience to integrate our components with those of other suppliers where necessary. We provide a full range of implementation services including system architecture design, data architecture, system configuration, implementation, integration, data migration and ingest, user interface design and customization and project management. We offer a full set of professional training, support and hosting services to help you make the most of your system.
1970: System Simulation Ltd is founded
1979: System Simulation creates graphics for the Ridley Scott film Alien
1986: System Simulation delivers its first museum collections management system, to London Transport Museum
1995: Our 25+ year collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum begins
1998: System Simulation delivers the Merlin collections management system for the British Museum
2010: Our first police digital asset management system is delivered, for the UK's Thames Valley Police force
2016: The Government Art Collection joins the System Simulation user family, and takes delivery of the first generation CollectionsIndex+ Web Edition system
2019: Old Sturbridge Village becomes the first of our growing community of North American museums using CollectionsIndex+
