[7] Midgard is built on the GNOME stack of libraries like GLib and libgda, and has language bindings for C, Python, Objective-C and PHP.

[18] Especially the templating and page composition features of Midgard have received praise, earning honorary mentions in several CMS Watch surveys.

[19][20][21][22] It also got score of 42 out of 45 in the Celebrity CMS Deathmatch of 2009[23] The name Midgard comes from Nordic mythology, meaning Middle earth, the world of humans.

Most of the Midgard developer community comes from the Baltic region,[24][25] and the project has been referred by CMS Watch as the Hanseatic League of Content Management.

[26] Midgard Project was started in early 1998 by Jukka Zitting and Henri Bergius for a Finnish historical reenactment organization —Harmaasudet— as a system for them to publish their material online.

[27][28] Since the organization didn't have resources to maintain a large development project by itself, the open source model was chosen for creating a community of contributors to the system.

First proprietary application for the platform was Hong Kong Linux Center (HKLC) Nadmin Studio content management system.

[33][34] In early 2000s (decade), Midgard developers participated actively in OSCOM,[35] the collaborative organization for open source content management systems.