A software application and database designed specially for collection management and control of museum, corporate and other large collections of fine art and valuable objects. The software consists of a multi-tiered structure along the lines of an account, the inventory item and parts of that item. The inventory item (see and expand frame at right) holds multiple information regarding Condition, Provenance, Financial in sub-screens. The data is held in Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle for secure environments or JET (Microsoft Access) for small collections.