Who we serve Museums
Websites for public museums and historic sites.
Visitors come to check today’s hours, buy a ticket and search the collection.
Cresswold County Museum is fictional, an example site by LFW.
What residents come to do.
A museum site sells a visit and keeps a collection. Both deserve pages that load fast and read well.
Hours and admission
Open today, holiday hours, prices and free days, answered at the top of the page.
Tickets and membership
Timed entry and memberships through your ticketing system, linked from every page.
The collection online
Objects with images, credits and rights, each on its own page you can link to and search.
Exhibits
Current, coming and past exhibits, with online versions that outlast the show.
School and group visits
Field trip programs by grade, booking requests and what teachers need to know before the bus arrives.
Access and getting here
Directions, parking, accessibility features and sensory-friendly visits.
What the law expects.
The rules that shape this kind of site, each linked to its source. We read them before we build, and your counsel has the last word.
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ADA Title II web rule
State and local government websites must meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA, special districts included, and so must the documents posted on them.
- Public entities with a total population of 50,000 or more.
- Smaller public entities and special district governments.
Dates from the Department of Justice’s interim final rule of April 20, 2026 (Federal Register 2026-07663).
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Open meetings
A public board posts notice and an agenda before it meets. Each state’s open-meetings law sets how far ahead and where, and the rules differ by state.
Source: Open Government Guide, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
The example site.
Fictional, built by LFW, with the tasks above on its homepage.
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Cresswold County Museum
Hours, tickets, search the collection. Larger screenshot of Cresswold County Museum
Built in.
LFW’s plugins for WordPress, free as each is released, chosen for what this kind of site does.
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LFW Filters
Open source on GitHub
Filter the collection by period, material or gallery, with filters that work by keyboard.
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LFW Page Builder
Built, not public yet
Exhibit pages from one layout your curators fill in, so a new show goes up without a designer.
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LFW Events Calendar
Built, not public yet
Talks, family days and tours, with a calendar feed.
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LFW Multilingual
Built, not public yet
Visit and access pages in the languages your visitors read.
Courses for your staff.
Free in LFW Academy, self-paced. No account needed to start.
- Collections staff who write alt text Accessible Content Basics About an hour, in seven lessons.
- Curators who write for the web Writing for Residents About 45 minutes, in six short lessons.
- Whoever keeps hours and exhibits current Running a Public Website Day to Day About 2 hours, in eight lessons with tasks on your own site.
- Every employee and volunteer Cyber Basics for Public Service About an hour, in eight short lessons.
What it costs.
Prices are the same for every kind of public institution.
Care, $250 a month
Updates and security patches, off-site backups, uptime checked every minute and broken links found daily. Cancel any time.
A site you made, kept
A site you make yourself in your browser is already built, so there is no setup fee: Care starts the month you keep it.
Projects, at a fixed price
An accessibility audit and fix plan is $3,500; a district rebuild is $9,500. Larger scopes and RFPs are quoted in writing.
Make a site for your museum, then keep it.
Make one in your browser and look around first. When you want to keep it, all we need is your email.
Check your inbox. If the address can receive mail, a link is on its way.