MIRAS is free for museums. In exchange for contributing collection data to the MIRAS network — artist records, provenance chains, exhibition histories — institutions get Visual DNA authentication, digital catalogue management, and computational provenance research at no cost.
The Challenge
Museums know they need to digitize collections but can rarely justify the cost against programming and conservation. MIRAS removes the financial barrier entirely through a data-trade model.
Claims for Nazi-era and colonial-period works are increasing in frequency and legal sophistication. Museums need documented, defensible provenance — not just curatorial notes in a filing cabinet.
Fire, flood, theft, and routine handling damage works every year. Without a digital biometric identity, a damaged or stolen work may be unrecoverable or unverifiable.
The Data-Trade Model
MIRAS operates on a simple exchange: museums contribute collection metadata — artist records, provenance chains, exhibition histories, catalogue entries — to the MIRAS network. In return, MIRAS provides its full technology stack at zero cost. The museum’s data enriches search results, provenance research, and authentication for every MIRAS user. The museum gets tools it could never fund on its own.
The Exchange
Artist records, provenance documentation, exhibition histories, catalogue raisonné data, and condition reports. Metadata only — no rights transferred.
Visual DNA fingerprinting, blockchain certificates, digital collection management, automated provenance research, and institutional access controls.
Every museum that joins strengthens provenance chains globally. A work exhibited at your museum becomes more traceable for everyone. Knowledge compounds.
Why MIRAS
Zero cost. Real technology. Cultural impact.
No subscription, no per-artwork fee. Museums contribute data; MIRAS provides technology. The model works because museum data is the raw material that makes the entire network more valuable.
Your provenance chains, exhibition histories, and artist records become part of a global art intelligence network. Your scholarship reaches further than your walls.
Enterprise encryption, role-based access controls, and immutable audit trails. Your collection data is protected to financial-sector standards. Metadata contributed to the network is anonymized.
Museums are the custodians of cultural memory. MIRAS ensures that memory is digital, searchable, and defended — at no cost to the institution.
Data-trade model — no subscription, no fees
Join the museums protecting their collections with patented Visual DNA technology — at zero cost.