September 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Leader emerging

Museum & Cultural Institution: AI Visibility Ranking

Management software for museums and cultural institutions covering collections, ticketing, memberships, and donors. Right now, PastPerfect is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 47 and the #1 spot in 11% of answers. Head-to-head: PastPerfect vs Axiell →

These rankings are measured from what the three models know from training, not a live web search. When the models DO search the web, see which sources they cite. Methodology.

Museum software has no AI favorite yet, anyone can win.

PastPerfect leads with a 33 score and shows up in 47% of answers, but that ceiling is low enough that no vendor has meaningfully staked out this category in AI recommendations. The per-model splits tell the real story: Altru gets zero mentions from Gemini while scoring 38 from Claude, and Veevart earns 46 from Gemini but nearly nothing from Claude, meaning coverage is fragmented by model rather than consolidated by brand. Any vendor that builds consistent presence across all three models is looking at an unclaimed top position.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	PastPerfect	47 ±4.1	61%	3.4	11%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #1 Gemini #4
2	Axiell	28 ±6.1	40%	4.1	0%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #6 Gemini #7
3	Tessitura	26 ±5.2	38%	4.1	3%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #4 Gemini #5
4	Altru	23 ±5.2	29%	3.1	15%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #3 Gemini
5	Veevart	23 ±5.2	29%	3.1	8%	ChatGPT #7 Claude #10 Gemini #2
6	CatalogIt	22 ±3.9	29%	3.5	8%	ChatGPT #6 Claude Gemini #3
7	Blackbaud Altru	20 ±4.8	24%	2.4	13%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #8 Gemini #1
8	Argus	15 ±2.6	18%	2.8	1%	ChatGPT Claude #2 Gemini
9	CollectiveAccess	14 ±3.9	22%	4.8	1%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #5 Gemini #12
10	TMS Collections	12 ±3.2	14%	2.6	7%	ChatGPT #3 Claude Gemini
11	Salesforce	10 ±4.8	14%	4.0	0%	ChatGPT #10 Claude #13 Gemini #6
12	Google Arts & Culture	10 ±2.7	10%	1.0	10%	ChatGPT #13 Claude #7 Gemini #9
13	TMS	10 ±4.6	13%	3.3	1%	ChatGPT #9 Claude #9 Gemini #11
14	Artwork Archive	9 ±4	10%	2.1	3%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #12 Gemini #8
15	Omeka	6 ±2.5	13%	6.1	0%	ChatGPT #14 Claude #11 Gemini #10

The ± under each score is the reliability band: how much the number would move if we re-ran the identical measurement. It is tight because each prompt is sampled multiple times. It is not the same as how much the ranking depends on which prompts we ask — a separate, wider figure shown on hover.

Just below the cutoff: The Museum System (6.1), EMu (5.6), Microsoft Entra ID (5.6), MuseumPlus (5.4), Okta (5). 119 brands were scored in this category; the leaderboard shows the top 15.

Visibility Score: position-weighted presence across all measured answers, 0 to 100. A score of 100 means the brand was the first recommendation in every answer. Every point in a trend line is a live monthly measurement; there is no modeled or backfilled history. Full methodology.

Openness 53/100: the share of this category's recommendation weight not held by the leader.

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Do the models agree?

Per-model Visibility Scores for the top 10. A long gray bar means the three assistants disagree about the brand. Hover a row for exact values.

ChatGPT Claude Gemini

Where they land in the answer

When a brand is mentioned, where does it appear? Box shows the middle 50% of positions, the thick line is the median, whiskers are the extremes. Hover a row for the detail.