# Curatorbook > A free, private accession register and object catalogue for the volunteer registrar of a historical society or small museum: numbers, photos, labels and registers. Curatorbook is a free, private accession register and object catalogue for the volunteer registrar of a historical society or small museum, usually working on a Mac or a shared PC. Accessions are numbered by year and sequence (2026.14) and objects under them (2026.14.3, with parts 2026.14.3a-b); the next number is suggested, gaps and duplicates are checked, and renumbering is noted. Objects carry descriptions, dimensions, condition, location, provenance and photos resized in the browser. It prints the accession register, catalogue cards, labels on common label sheets, incoming receipts, condition reports, a location inventory, loan lists and deaccession records. Everything stays in the browser; the catalogue file (a zip of records and photos) is the backup. Guides last reviewed 28 September 2026. The full text of every guide, the numbering rules and the FAQ is at https://curatorbook-web.pages.dev/llms-full.txt. - [Free museum accession register and catalogue](https://curatorbook-web.pages.dev/): A free, private accession register and catalogue for small museums: number accessions and objects, add photos, and print the register, labels and receipts. ## Tools - [Museum collection catalogue with photos](https://curatorbook-web.pages.dev/catalogue/): Record accessions and objects with year.accession.object numbers, parts, photos, locations, condition and provenance, and save the catalogue file. - [Print the accession register and labels](https://curatorbook-web.pages.dev/registers/): Print the accession register, catalogue cards, object labels on label sheets, incoming receipts, condition reports, location lists, loans and deaccessions. ## Reference - [Collection records guides for small museums](https://curatorbook-web.pages.dev/guide/): Guides for volunteer registrars: accession number formats, accessioning step by step, the register, labels, receipts, spreadsheets and software. - [Questions about the museum catalogue](https://curatorbook-web.pages.dev/faq/): Where your catalogue is kept, why to save the catalogue file, how numbers and parts work, what prints, what is free, and why there is no deed of gift form. ## Guides - [Museum accession number format explained](https://curatorbook-web.pages.dev/guide/museum-accession-number-format/): The usual museum number is year, accession and object: 2026.14.3, with parts as 2026.14.3a-b. How it works, why the year goes first, and padding choices. - [How to accession museum objects, step by step](https://curatorbook-web.pages.dev/guide/how-to-accession-museum-objects/): Accessioning in seven steps: receipt, decision, transfer of title, the register line, numbering, cataloguing and marking. With a worked example from a gift. - [The accession register: what to record](https://curatorbook-web.pages.dev/guide/the-accession-register/): The accession register is the permanent list of every accession, one line each: number, date received, source, method and description. What goes in it and why. - [Museum object labels and catalogue cards](https://curatorbook-web.pages.dev/guide/object-labels-and-catalogue-cards/): What goes on a storage tag, an exhibit label and a catalogue card, how numbers are marked on objects, and how to print labels on common label sheets. - [Incoming receipts and condition reports](https://curatorbook-web.pages.dev/guide/incoming-receipts-and-condition-reports/): An incoming receipt records things left in your care before you own them; a condition report records an object's state on a date. What each should include. - [Moving a museum catalogue off a spreadsheet](https://curatorbook-web.pages.dev/guide/moving-from-a-spreadsheet-to-a-catalogue/): How to move a collection kept in Excel or Google Sheets into a catalogue: tidy the numbers, save as CSV, match the columns, check the import, keep a copy. - [Collection software for small museums compared](https://curatorbook-web.pages.dev/guide/collection-software-for-small-museums-compared/): Collection software for a small museum or historical society compared: Windows software, hosted plans, free tools and servers, prices checked September 2026. ## Policies - [Privacy, your catalogue stays in your browser](https://curatorbook-web.pages.dev/privacy/): How your data is handled: accessions, donor names, photos and locations stay in this browser, catalogue files are made in the page, and nothing is sent. - [Terms of use for the museum catalogue](https://curatorbook-web.pages.dev/terms/): The terms for using this catalogue: your records and decisions stay yours, it is not legal advice, keep your catalogue file, no affiliation, clear refunds. ## What it is not - Curatorbook is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any museum, association, standards body or software vendor, including the Collections Trust (Spectrum), the American Alliance of Museums, the American Association for State and Local History, the National Park Service, PastPerfect, CatalogIt, MUSARCH, CollectiveAccess and Omeka. - Curatorbook keeps records; it is not legal advice. It ships no deed of gift or other legal form, and it does not certify that your procedures meet any published standard. - It has no deed of gift or other legal form, and a deaccession record is a record, not the authority for a deaccession. - It does not claim compliance with Spectrum or any other collections standard; procedure names are paraphrased. - It is one registrar's catalogue in one browser, not a multi-user server system or a public online collection. ## Pricing Free today. Every feature is open to everyone with no account. Nothing is uploaded: records, donor names and photos stay in the browser. ## Optional - [Full text for AI assistants](https://curatorbook-web.pages.dev/llms-full.txt): every guide, the numbering rules and the FAQ as one Markdown file. - Contact: socialreminderinfo@gmail.com