Turnkey website for a museum or cultural center

How visitors choose a museum or cultural center and what they look for on the website

Before a visit, people type museum with the name of the town, cultural center events, museum opening hours or school excursions and open several results. They need to see the current exhibition, the ticket price and the opening hours, and tourists also need directions to the entrance. A website for a museum and cultural center is an events calendar, exhibitions and practical information on separate pages that answer these queries without a phone call. Every event has its own page with a date and a description, so search finds exactly that page.

What a website for a museum and cultural center includes

• a home page with the current events calendar, opening hours and ticket prices;
• pages of the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions with photos and descriptions;
• an events calendar: lectures, concerts, workshops, festivals;
• a group excursion request form with a date and a topic;
• accessibility information and visitor rules;
• a page about the institution's history, team and partners;
• contacts, a map, directions and links to social media.

Pages open quickly on a smartphone, and museum staff change the events calendar, prices and announcements themselves in the LightSite admin panel. The address, opening hours and event dates are passed to search engines in structured data markup.

How we work on a museum website

The work consists of four stages:

1. consultation: we find out who visits the institution and which sections are needed;
2. you provide descriptions of the exhibitions, the events calendar, photos of the halls and exhibits, and contacts;
3. we put together the structure, texts and pages on a template and agree them with you;
4. we check the forms and the smartphone view and launch the website.

We launch a museum website on a template in 3–5 working days from the moment the exhibition descriptions, events calendar and photos are ready. The domain and the admin panel belong to the institution.

How much a website for a museum and cultural center costs

A website on a ready-made template costs from $500. A corporate website with separate sections for exhibitions, events and news costs from $1,350. For a festival or a major exhibition, we can build a separate landing page from $500. The contract fixes the price and the list of pages, and the first consultation is free. Examples of the formats are on the pages website on a template, corporate website and event landing page.

Questions and answers

Can tickets be sold online?

Yes, through the ticketing service the institution uses or through a pre-booking request form. Before the start we clarify the service's terms, and we name the cost of the integration after the consultation.

How do we show the events calendar so visitors see only current events?

Each event has its own page with a date, time and price, and the home page shows the upcoming events. A staff member updates the calendar in the admin panel when events change.

Does the website need an English version?

If foreign guests visit you, an English version with the events calendar, opening hours and ticket prices helps them plan their visit. We discuss language versions at the consultation.

Can the website accept excursion requests from schools and groups?

Yes. The form collects the date, number of visitors, age of the group and the topic, and the request goes to the guide or administrator in Telegram and by e-mail. The institution sends the confirmation.