PROJECT · Muzeum Miejskie w Tychach
Half a century of the archive of the architects behind New Tychy — 4 492 objects taken from museum albums to the web. We built the site, uploaded the entire database and keep it up to date.
Exhibit 001
An archive that used to sit on a museum shelf now has an address on the web — open to everyone.
The Tychy City Museum holds the albums of Hanna Adamczewska-Wejchert and Kazimierz Wejchert — the architects who designed New Tychy. Photographs, manuscripts, sketches, press clippings and travel souvenirs: work, the city and everyday life recorded page by page.
Inventory
Counted on the live site, October 2026.
Room I · Archive
We brought Klar Studio's design to the browser 1:1 — a calm, gallery-like grid where the scans take the lead, not the interface.
Room II · Object card
Author, date, place, inventory number, object type, collection, tags and licence — exactly as in the museum inventory. Below: a description and other objects from the same album.
Room III · Search
Search plus six filters: tags, date from, date to, author, place and object type. Type “Tychy” and get 20 pages of results spanning half a century.
Room IV · In your pocket
The full collection on a small screen, favourites saved for later and sharing in one tap. Accessibility designed to WCAG 2.1 — a text-resize menu, contrast and a clear structure, because a museum is for everyone.
Scope of work
Every view — from the list to the object card — faithfully reproduced and polished for desktop, tablet and phone.
An object structure that follows the museum inventory: 9 record fields plus a description, consistent across the collection.
Data prepared together with the museum team — 4 492 records and about 9 GB of scans uploaded without retyping a thing.
Full-text search and 6 filters, including 380 places and date ranges, to pick one object out of a sea of data.
36 albums as separate collections, breadcrumbs and “other objects in this collection” — a visit page by page.
Favourites kept for later and easy sharing — an archive people want to come back to.
A public institution's website, so accessibility is a must: designed for the Polish digital accessibility act — a WCAG menu with text resizing, contrast and heading structure in line with the guidelines, image descriptions and full mobile support.
Every object has its own address and goes into the sitemap — over 4 400 addresses Google can find.
Care
We look after the site on an ongoing basis: uploading new objects and updated descriptions and records prepared by the museum. The collection grows and changes — the website keeps up.
Project record
Inv. no. KICKASS/MMT/2025/001
