Built for government. Not adapted from a gallery tool.
Every other art management platform was built for commercial galleries and adapted — awkwardly — for government use. Art Trackers was designed from day one for the specific requirements, procurement realities, and operational constraints of government public art management.
The Problem with Current Options
Why everything else falls short.
Spreadsheets
What most agencies useBreak when staff leave. Go out of date quietly. No audit trail. No condition history. No provenance record. No way to engage the community.
✗ Not built for this
Gallery software
Artlogic, TMS, ArtBaseBuilt for commercial dealers. No public layer, no NFC tagging, no government compliance reporting, no community engagement. Treats your public collection like a private inventory.
✗ Not built for this
Art Trackers
Built for governmentThe only platform where the same system that runs your internal inventory also tells the public the story of what they are standing in front of — and notifies the artist that their work is being seen.
✓ Built for this
What Changes Everything
What government clients tell us changes everything.
The NFC tag replaces the clipboard
Field staff scan any tagged artwork with their phone to pull up the full record, log a condition update, and confirm location. No separate hardware. No double entry.
The compliance report writes itself
One click generates a formatted inventory report with all artworks, condition status, photos, and inspection dates. Ready for council, audit, or grant submission.
The community engagement data is real
Every NFC scan is logged. You can show a council member exactly how many times community members engaged with your public art collection this quarter.
The data is yours forever
Full export at any time, no fees. 99.9% uptime SLA. Your records do not disappear if you change software.
What our partners say
“The NFC engagement data alone has made the case for our programme budget twice. We went from “we think people value this” to “here is exactly how many people engaged with this artwork this quarter.” That changes everything in a council meeting.”