Comparison
Museumica vs eHive
eHive is a hosted cataloguing system used by small museums and historical societies across every subject area. Museumica is built specifically for natural history, with structured scientific fields, a visual cabinet and a public museum page on your own URL.
Written by the Museumica team · Last updated: 22 September 2026
Side-by-side comparison
| Aspect | Museumica | eHive |
|---|---|---|
| Intended user | Private collectors, small museums and researchers in natural history. | Small museums, historical societies and community collections across all subject areas. |
| Subject focus | Natural history: minerals, fossils, shells, insects, herbarium, meteorites, taxidermy, curiosities. | General museum cataloguing, strongest for social history and art objects. |
| Scientific fields | Per-category fields such as Mohs hardness, geological period, locality, collector and coordinates. | Generic object fields; scientific data usually goes in free text. |
| Hosting | Hosted web application with EU data hosting. | Hosted web application. |
| Cost model | Free Hobby plan, then subscription per workspace. | Tiered subscription by record count. |
| Public presentation | Your own public museum at museumica.com/your-name, plus curated virtual exhibitions. | Public catalogue pages and an aggregated eHive community search. |
| Storage management | Rooms, cabinets, drawers, boxes and positions with drag-and-drop. | Location fields without a visual cabinet view. |
| Labels | Museum-quality label templates, batch printing and QR codes. | Basic report and label output. |
| Exports | CSV, PDF catalogue and Darwin Core. | CSV and spreadsheet export. |
| AI tools | Assistant, semantic search, AI specimen descriptions and exhibition narratives. | Not part of the product. |
Frequently asked
- Which is better for a natural history collection?
- Museumica, because its fields are built for specimens rather than general museum objects — hardness, geological period, locality, collector and coordinates are structured fields rather than free text.
- Which is better for a mixed local-history museum?
- eHive, if most of your objects are social history, archives or art and you want to appear in its community-wide public search.
- Can both publish a collection online?
- Yes. eHive publishes catalogue pages within its own community portal, while Museumica gives you a public museum page on your own URL at museumica.com/your-name plus curated exhibitions.
- Can I move my eHive records to Museumica?
- Yes. Export your records to CSV from eHive and use Museumica's import wizard, which maps columns onto Museumica's specimen fields before anything is written.