The MODES Users Association
The MODES Users Association (MUA) is a not-for-profit company, formed in 1996. We own and develop the MODES family of software, and provide support and training for MODES & Catalist users.
We supply collections management software to more than 520 museums and archives in the UK.
What is MODES?
MODES is the most widely-used collections management system in British museums. It was originally developed by the Museums Documentation Association (MDA), who released the first version in 1987. Since then, MODES has undergone continuous development, and has been deployed successfully by hundreds of collections throughout the UK. There are currently three versions of our software.
ModesXML is the latest version of MODES. Built on a new XML database, it features multi-user access, and includes many enhanced features for data entry, retrieval and publication.
MODES for Windows is Britain's most popular collections management system. It is easy to use for data entry, searching and retrieval. It offers many of the same features as ModesXML, but does so using a single-user database.
What is Catalist?
Catalist is a simplified version of MODES for Windows, designed for cataloguing smaller museum collections.