Sell with us
Join our museum community marketplace
Grow your sales, not your expenses with our commission-based marketplace – Reach new audiences and boost your bottom line with MuseumShops – the hassle-free solution for museums and cultural institutions.
Our service includes:
- Sell more, pay less: No upfront fees, just a 10% commission on successful sales of retail products.
- Effortless setup & management: Easy-to-use listing process minimizes time spent managing your shop.
- Reach new audiences: Get discovered by customers browsing MuseumShops and through our direct marketing campaigns, with world-class search indexing for products and promotion of your products to our mailing list.
- Boost sales potential: Offer coupon codes and special promotions.
- Take control: Manage stock & sales with CRM data.
- Frictionless transactions: Secure purchasing & refund system ensures customer satisfaction.
- Peace of mind: Full compliance with UK ecommerce law included automatically.
- Flexibility: Vendor Vacation mode allows temporary shop closure.
- Always evolving: Continuously updated platform with new features rolled out regularly.
MuseumShops Bookings
‘We’ve had our first visitors through, and without any prompting they said that booking online was really easy. Perfect!’ – The Green Howards Museum.
MuseumShops Bookings offers partners an extremely flexible system which includes:
- Booking variable priced individual tickets by time slot for general admission or special exhibitions.
- Optional extras such as Gift Aid or catering for tours.
- FREE use for Free Admissions & Tours
- Group visit bookings.
- Booking of room hire, weddings, birthday parties and holiday accommodation.
- Link in retail products such as a guidebook or audio tour guides.
- Manage all your bookings using our adaptive calendar.
- Optional confirmation of bookings before payment acceptance.
MuseumShops Subscriptions (New for 2024!)
MuseumShops Subscriptions is an all-in-one solution to streamline your Friends group management and keep your members engaged. Here’s how it can help you:
- Effortless recurring billing: Set it and forget it! With automatic payments, you’ll never have to chase down renewals again.
- Focus on your members, not spreadsheets: MuseumShops handles all your data storage and security, so you can focus on creating a great experience for your Friends group.
- Boost engagement with exclusive events: Easily link memberships to special events, like exclusive talks or behind-the-scenes tours, keeping your members coming back for more.
- Flexible pricing that fits your needs: Offer both online and in-person sign-up options, with free enrollment for phone and in-person memberships.
If you’d like further information, a discussion about your requirements, or a demonstration, please fill out the form to get in touch.
MuseumShops is open to Museums, Historic Houses, Libraries, Art Galleries and Science Centres based in the United Kingdom or Crown Dependencies. However if your organisation is not in the UK and would be interested in listing with us then please get in touch to see how we can help you in future.
What MuseumShops Can Do For You
MuseumShops principal objective is to reduce the cost of creating and operating an online shop, letting you focus on presenting your products to potential customers. We do not charge upfront or ongoing monthly fees, instead taking a 10% commission only when our partners make a sale. This incentivises us to help you sell, as opposed to other online platforms which charge regardless of sales performance.
By providing a marketplace website with a wide range of choice, MuseumShops provides an attractive destination for online shoppers, helping our partners match and exceed the UK-wide average of 30% as the online share of overall retail revenues.
Every organisation that partners with MuseumShops gets a unique shopfront page to display their products, customisable to match branding and with our own branding kept to a minimum. Customers on the site can browse all products on the site or just those in an individual shop, using browsing features such as the Search Bar and Price Slider, or narrowing down options through the use of selectable Categories.
Special offers, membership discount codes for Friends groups, back office sales charts, SKU inventory management, MuseumShops offers all these features and more!
MuseumShops is happy to help if you need any assistance setting up an online shop. We can introduce you to retail photographers at a specially discounted rate and provide tailored advice about which products to upload and packaging and postal options.
Contact clientservices@museumshops.uk for a brochure and further details, or review some of our key terms below before making an application.
Key terms:
To list products on MuseumShops we ask that you be open to the public on a regular basis, with at least ten products ready to list and the capacity to dispatch within three working days.
Individuals and commercial companies unaffiliated with Museums, Galleries, etc, are not permitted to sell through MuseumShops.
If you are ready to join, please review our full terms and conditions then click the Apply Now button. On receipt of your completed form we will contact you directly to discuss your application before issuing you with an account.