KE EMu Clients

The Smithsonian Institution is now the world's largest museum complex. The National Museum of Natural History is one of the sixteen museums and galleries of the Institution. The NMNH manages the largest museum collection in the world - over 130 million specimens and artifacts. They were established to document the cultural and natural diversity of the earth and to provide a foundation for understanding the earth and its ecosystems. The museum is working toward increasing electronic accessibility to the collections, showing that collections and collections data can help solve current and future problems of mankind, and bringing to decision makers' attention the importance of collections as a global resource.

Online databases:

• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Research and Collections 

The Minnesota Historical Society's operations include a world-class museum and library/research facility, storage and care of 2.6 million items (including 450,000 published materials; 800,000 sound and visual items; 87,000 cubic feet of archives; 227,000 three-dimensional artifacts; and 950,000 archaeological specimens) in its collections, the State Archives, conservation and processing functions, a publishing division, and a development function, all located in the History Center. Additionally, the Society manages a statewide network of 32 historic sites; the Society has staff located in 20 facilities scattered across the state of Minnesota.

The Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) is Canada's largest and most popular museum, with average attendance of over 1,300,00 visitors annually. The CMC houses 3.75 million artifacts. KE EMu provides CMC staff and clients throughout the world unprecedented access to information on its cultural assets consisting of objects, written, sound or image records of those objects and other museum material, from handwritten manuscripts to electronic documents.

Online databases:

• Canadian Museum of Civilisation
• Musée canadien des civilisations
• Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War

The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world's preeminent institutions for scientific research and education, with collections of more than 32 million specimens and artifacts.

Amon Carter Museum, located in Fort Worth, Texas, was established to house the collection of works by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell amassed by Fort Worth publisher and philanthropist Amon G. Carter, Sr.  The Museum now boasts one of the finest collections of American art in the country, encompassing a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture, as well as photographs from the early days of the medium to the present.

The Canadian House of Commons selected KE EMu to manage their collection of artifacts, works of art and documents representing the history of the government of Canada.

The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation is using KE EMu to catalogue their Photo Library, a collection of slides and photographs depicting the history of housing in Canada.

The Canada Science and Technology Museum collection consists of 75,000 artifacts (everything from a 600,000-pound or 272,160-kg locomotive to a thermocouple chip), 38,000 photographs, close to 21,500 technical drawings, approximately 21,500 pieces of trade literature, rare books and periodicals, all of which are complemented and supported by library holdings of monographs and serials.

The Canadian War Museum (CWM) is the nation's premier military museum. The collection holdings comprise approximately half a million items. The Canadian War Museum's collections focus on elements that record and demonstrate the military experience in Canada and its historical world context.

Online databases:

• Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the Second World War

One of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, the Carnegie Museum of Art offers a distinguished collection of contemporary art that includes film and video works. Other collections of note include works of American art from the late nineteenth century, French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, and European and American decorative arts from the late seventeenth century to the present.

The Center for Jewish History houses five premier American institutions - American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The holdings of these organizations represent a collection of 100 million archival documents, manuscripts and photographs, 500,000 library volumes, and tens of thousands of artifacts and works of art.

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, a non-profit institution committed to enriching the lives of children, is one of the largest children's museum in the world. The 356,000-square-foot facility houses 10 major galleries that explore the physical and natural sciences, history, world cultures and the arts.

The University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Department of Botany is located in Honolulu, Hawaii. The University is a premier research university of international standing. Located in Manoa Valley on the island of O‘ahu, the University was founded in 1907; with the addition of a College of Arts and Sciences in 1920, the college became the University of Hawai‘i, and in 1972, it became the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. 

Today more than 20,400 students are enrolled in courses on campus or via distance delivery.

The Indianapolis Museum of Art is among the largest general art museums in the US, with a collection of 50,000 works that spans the range and scope of art history. Highlights include the Samuel Josefowitz Collection of Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven; the Holliday Collection of Neo-Impressionism, featuring the work of Georges Seurat and his followers; the largest collection of works by J.M.W. Turner outside of Great Britain and one of the most outstanding collections of Japanese Edo-period paintings in the nation. Other important collections include African Art, Chinese ceramics, West Asian rugs and contemporary studio glass.

The mission of The Jim Moran Foundation is to improve the quality of life for the youth and families of Florida through the support of innovative programs and opportunities that meet the ever-changing needs of the community.

Founded in 1962, the Judah L. Magnes Museum explores the depth, vitality and complexity of Jewish life and culture. The Magnes accomplishes this mission by presenting important exhibitions that draw on its rich collection of fine arts and ceremonial objects, the archives of the Western Jewish History Center, and the Blumenthal Rare Book and Manuscript Library.  The Magnes holds over 8,000 examples of ceremonial and decorative art, including metalwork, textiles, costumes, and jewelry.  It is considered to be the third largest collection of this kind in the United States. The Bay Area is home to the third largest Jewish community in the United States. The Judah L. Magnes Museum encourages understanding of the Jewish past for present and future generations, serving as a vital cultural resource for the entire community.

The Maryland Historical Society is the state's oldest cultural institution. Including a museum, library, press, and extensive educational programs, the MHS collects, preserves, and interprets objects and materials reflecting Maryland's diverse heritage. The MHS houses the most extensive collection of objects and artifacts in the state of Maryland, and one of the largest collections of Americana in the world.

The Milwaukee Public Museum collections number about 6.2 million specimens and objects. Collections include Fine/Decorative/Folk Arts, History-Worldwide including technology, Anthropology, Archaeology, Botany, Geology-Paleontology, IZ and VZ, Photography and Film Collection. 

The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL, attracts approximately 2 million visitors per year and was the first Museum in North America to develop the idea of hands-on, interactive exhibits. It was also the first museum to have participation of industry in its exhibits and is the largest science museum in a single building in the Western Hemisphere with over 800 exhibits and over 2,000 interactive units located in over 350,000 square feet of exhibit space. Built in 1893, the Museum building has played a role in two World's Fairs: The World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 and The Century of Progress Exposition in 1933.

The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is the sixteenth museum of the Smithsonian Institution and the first national museum dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans. Established by an act of Congress in 1989, the museum works in collaboration with the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere to protect and foster their cultures by reaffirming traditions and beliefs, encouraging contemporary artistic expression, and empowering the Indian voice.  NMAI has one of the most extensive collections of Native American arts and artifacts in the world—approximately 266,000 catalogue records (825,000 items) representing over 12,000 years of history and over 1,200 indigenous cultures throughout the Americas.  In addition, NMAI holdings include Photographic Archives (approximately 324,000 images), Media Archives (approximately 12,000 items), and Paper Archives (approximately 1522 linear feet).

The National Museum of Health and Medicine is dedicated to preserving, collecting, and interpreting the objects, specimens, photographs and documents chronicling the history and practice of medicine. KE EMu will be used to catalogue archival materials, anatomical and pathological specimens, medical instruments and artifacts, and microscope slide-based medical research collections. The NMHM collections focus particularly on the history and practice of American medicine, military medicine, and current medical research issues.

The New York Botanical Garden is one of the foremost public gardens in America and a National Historic Landmark. It has some of the most beautiful natural terrain of any botanical garden in the world, with dramatic rock outcroppings, a river and cascading waterfall, undulating hills, wetlands, ponds and 50 acres of historic, uncut forest.

Yale's earliest museum collection, a miscellaneous assortment of 'natural and artificial curiosities 'from around the world, was begun in the eighteenth century and was typical of college collections of the time. There are more than eleven million specimens and objects held by the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University curatorial divisions, less than one percent of which can be displayed to the public at any given time. The collections include tens of thousands of types (the original specimens used when a new species of plant or animal was first described to science).

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Since its inception in 1933, the RCMP Historical Collections Unit (formerly the RCMP Centennial Museum) has been the caretaker of nearly 40,000 objects, documents, uniforms and firearms relating to the history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This collection covers the history of the force from its creation in 1873 until the present time and tells the story of the lives and careers of Mounties stationed across Canada. The Unit occupies space leased from the RCMP Heritage Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan. 

The Royal Saskatchewan Museum furthers an understanding of Saskatchewan's natural history and aboriginal cultures, past and present. It communicates that understanding through all available media, especially exhibits and publications, in a culturally and scientifically sensitive manner for the purposes of education and enjoyment. The Museum's principal means of understanding and communicating is through acquisition, conservation and research of appropriate material evidence of human and natural history.

Chartered by a unanimous Act of Congress in 1980 and located adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum strives to broaden public understanding of the history of the Holocaust through multifaceted programs.

The U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps have selected KE EMu for the Department of Navy Collections Management System. KE EMu will be installed at 20 museums around the USA, from undersea museums to historical centres. The museums range in size from very large to some medium and a few small ones. Over 1,000,000 records will be catalogued using a standardized KE EMu catalogue and management modules.

Determined to share with the public his vast collection of Americana, Henry Francis du Pont founded Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library in 1951. But du Pont did more than establish a great museum and naturalistic garden. In a single lifetime he created an extraordinary American country estate on par with English examples that had evolved over centuries. In its heyday Winterthur had few counterparts; today it is the greatest surviving example of its kind in the nation.