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The Five College Consortium has launched a major update of a website that gives students, researchers and art lovers around the world access to over 100,000 objects from the shared collections of five campus art museums and nearby Historic Deerfield.

Five College Museums: Collections Online is the public portal of a new collections management system that significantly improves how these institutions identify, track and share information through simplified searches.

The new system is the result of a collaboration among Five Colleges, Inc., and the University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst, the Hampshire College Art Gallery, the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, the Smith College Museum of Art and Historic Deerfield, an independent museum closely affiliated with the campuses. London-based software agency Keepthinking carried out the design and development of the system.

The new museum website can be accessed at museums.fivecolleges.edu.

A full announcement with additional details about the new site can be found on the Five College Consortium site.