Archives & Museum Informatics

Archives & Museum Informatics is a company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (and previously Pittsburgh, USA), that organizes conferences, and undertakes consulting, publishing and training in the field of cultural heritage, especially for museums.

Archives & Museum Informatics was led by David Bearman (1950-2023) and Jennifer Trant.

The company founded and organized the annual Museums and the Web and ICHIM (International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting) conferences until 2011.

The company offers consultancy for archives, museums, libraries and cultural heritage organizations relating to information technology issues.

The conference considers the interdisciplinary museological field of how museums and their users can benefit from the use of the World Wide Web.