Museumsverband Rheinland-Pfalz e. V.

Name

Museumsverband Rheinland-Pfalz e. V.

Legal name

Museumsverband Rheinland-Pfalz e. V.

Website

https://museumsverband-rlp.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Museum Association Services

NAICS

Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (712)

akta.pro primary industry

Museums & Heritage Sites (History, Science, Specialty) (BPAGAHAA)

Keywords

• Museum advisory services
• Cultural heritage protection
• Museum training programs
• Museum funding coordination
• Digital collection management

Headquarters

HQ city

Ludwigshafen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership fees: The association generates revenue through institutional membership fees (70 EUR plus 15 EUR admin fee per additional museum), personal membership fees (25 EUR), and supporting membership fees (from 85 EUR).
2. State funding: The association receives funding from the Ministerium für Familie, Frauen, Kultur und Integration des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz for its advisory services to museums and operational activities.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The Museumsverband Rheinland-Pfalz e.V. is a statewide non-profit museum association that provides advisory services, funding coordination, and continuing education to approximately 500 museums in Rhineland-Palatinate. The association operates digital platforms including the Museumsportal Rheinland-Pfalz and the museum-digital.de inventory system, and delivers training programs, museum consulting, and cultural heritage protection services on behalf of the state government.

Product overview

Museumsverband Rheinland-Pfalz e.V. operates as a museum association providing advisory, funding, and training services to approximately 500 museums in Rhineland-Palatinate. The organization offers a centralized platform portfolio including the Museumsportal Rheinland-Pfalz (museum discovery portal), museum-digital.de (digital inventory and collection management), and the Kulturgutkataster (cultural property cadastre for emergency management). Services include museum consulting, financial support coordination, continuing education, provenance research, digitalization support, cultural heritage protection, and disaster response coordination for flood-affected cultural assets. The association functions as both a professional network and a government-mandated advisory body.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Museumsportal Rheinland-Pfalz A statewide online portal for discovering museums and exhibitions across Rhineland-Palatinate, featuring museum listings, event calendars, and featured museum spotlights for visitors and cultural tourists.
• museum-digital.de A free digital inventory and collection management platform enabling museums to catalog objects, manage collections, and publish online collections. The platform is managed by museum-digital Deutschland e.V. association.
• Kulturgutkataster für Rheinland-Pfalz A statewide cultural property cadastre system that consolidates essential information about museums, archives, and libraries to support emergency response in disaster situations. Managed by the Landesamt für Brand- und Katastrophenschutz.
• Museumsberatung (Museum Consulting) Comprehensive museum advisory services including collection management, digitalization, accessibility, provenance research, emergency planning, and organizational development provided on behalf of the state government.
• Museumsförderung (Museum Funding) Financial support coordination for museum projects including annual application processes, eligibility assessment, and project funding recommendations for the state ministry.
• Fortbildungsprogramm (Training Program) Annual continuing education program including seminars, online seminars, regional conferences, excursions, and workshops covering topics such as digitalization, accessibility, collection management, and museum operations.
• Museum des Monats (Museum of the Month) Annual award program launched in 2022 by the Ministry for Family, Women, Culture and Integration recognizing outstanding museum work at small and medium-sized museums with a prize of 1,000 euros.
• Eingangsbuch (Accession Book) Standardized entry book system for documenting museum acquisitions, serving as property documentation and foundation for digital inventory management.

Quantifiable outcome

• 366 funding applications processed over 21 years, distributing approximately 5.7 million EUR to museums
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• museum-digital Deutschland e.V.coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 November 2021The association was instrumental in founding museum-digital Deutschland e.V. as a new umbrella organization for the museum-digital platform. The association maintains and operates the Rheinland-Pfalz section of the platform, which publishes museum collections online. The platform had 1.8 million annual visits in 2021 with nearly 30,000 objects from 79 Rheinland-Pfalz museums.
• Ministerium für Familie, Frauen, Kultur und Integration Rheinland-PfalzcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe state ministry provides funding for the association's advisory services to museums and oversees the 'Museum des Monats' award program, which the association supports. The association receives state funding to carry out its mandate.
• Blue Shield DeutschlandminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBlue Shield Deutschland, an organization dedicated to protecting cultural heritage in crisis situations, provided assistance during the 2021 flood disaster in the Ahrtal, including helping to rescue historical silk banners from the Schützenmuseum Ahrweiler.
• Bundesanstalt Technisches Hilfswerk (THW)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTHW provided technical support during the 2021 flood disaster, including cultural heritage protection specialists who assisted with the rescue of museum collections from the Stadtmuseum Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler.
• Landesamt für Brand- und Katastrophenschutz (LfBK)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe LfBK, under the authority of the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Interior, manages the cultural heritage cadastre (Kulturgutkataster) together with a team from the University of Koblenz.
• Universität KoblenzminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe University of Koblenz team is involved in the technical implementation and maintenance of the cultural heritage cadastre (Kulturgutkataster) for Rheinland-Pfalz.
• Landesstelle für Bestandserhaltung Rheinland-PfalzminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe state conservation center collaborated with the association in developing the cultural heritage cadastre and during the 2021 flood disaster response.
• Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-PfalzminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerParticipated in the development of the cultural heritage cadastre for Rheinland-Pfalz.
• Museumsverband Hessen e. V.minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCooperative partner for joint training events; the associations have organized approximately 20 joint events since 2012.
• museum-digital Deutschland e. V.coreTechnology or IntegrationThe association collaborates with museum-digital for training sessions on the museum-digital.de platform, including beginner and advanced workshops for museum professionals.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Museumsverband Hessen e.V. The Hessen state museum association, structurally and functionally analogous to Museumsverband Rheinland-Pfalz. The two organizations are documented cooperative partners and have co-organized approximately 20 joint training events since 2012, the closest direct peer in terms of mandate, services, and member profile.
• Museumsverband Niedersachsen und Bremen e.V. Combined state-level museum association for Niedersachsen and Bremen. Provides comparable consulting, continuing education, and advocacy services to its member museums, making it a structural peer at the Länder level.
• Museumsverband Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V. State-level museum association for Nordrhein-Westfalen with a comparable mandate of advisory services, training, and funding-program administration for member museums. Directly comparable in organizational structure and value proposition to the subject.

Emerging players

• museum-digital Deutschland e.V. Founded in 2021 with the subject's involvement, this separate association now operates the museum-digital platform nationally. It is closely tied to Museumsverband Rheinland-Pfalz through co-founding, joint training, and shared content operations.

Others

• Bundesverband Museumspädagogik e.V. National association for museum education professionals. Shares training, professional-development, and advocacy functions with Museumsverband Rheinland-Pfalz, though focused specifically on pedagogical practice rather than broad museum operations.
• Landesstelle für Bestandserhaltung Rheinland-Pfalz: State-level conservation office collaborating with Museumsverband Rheinland-Pfalz on the Kulturgutkataster and 2021 flood response. Operates as an adjacent, enabling institution rather than a competing association.

Broad incumbents

• ICOM Deutschland: The German national committee of the International Council of Museums. It operates as an adjacent professional network for museum workers with comparable international outlook, professional-development programming, and policy advocacy.
• Deutscher Museumsbund e.V. The national German museum association and umbrella body for museums and museum associations across all German states. It serves as a federal-level counterpart and policy advocate, overlapping with Museumsverband Rheinland-Pfalz on advocacy, training, and sector representation, but at a national scope.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/MuseumsportalRLP
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/museumsverband-rheinland-pfalz

Compliance2 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

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