For museums, hospitals, foundations, and corporate collections.
Museums, hospitals, foundations, corporate collections, hotels. Collections answerable to boards, auditors, donors, and insurers, kept current by Cove the same way we keep a private collection current: the record built for you, every value watched, and a certified number ready whenever governance asks for one.
Built for collections that answer to a board.
Institutional collections carry obligations private ones do not: audits, accession records, donor paperwork, board reporting. Cove carries the record-keeping so the collection can do its actual job.
Beyond the accession file.
Loans out and loans in, insurance schedules that match current values, incoming gifts with qualified appraisals attached — and continuous valuation across the whole holding, not just the works that traveled recently.
Museum loan appraisalsThe art program, accounted for.
Hundreds of works across campuses, most of them donated, few of them documented to the standard the auditor expects. Cove catalogues the whole program and keeps its values current for insurance and compliance.
An asset class on the books.
The collection sits on a balance sheet, which means valuations, audit trails, and governance reporting. Cove keeps the record audit-ready year round, with certified appraisals on demand.
Works across properties.
Art distributed across lobbies, suites, and restaurants, changing with every renovation. One living record tracks what hangs where, what it is worth, and what the insurer has on file.
And every lobby can give its own tour
Every work in the building can explain itself.
Put a code on the wall. A visitor points their phone at any piece and taps once. Cove identifies the work and returns its label: artist, title, year, medium, and why it is here. Then they can keep asking, and it keeps answering, for as long as they are curious.
No app to download. No account to create. No plaque to reprint when the hang changes, because the answer comes from your record rather than from the wall.
You decide exactly what every visitor sees, piece by piece.
Passes run from two hours to thirty days and expire on their own. Every grant below is an independent switch, set per pass, so the tour you open for a donor evening is not the one running in the lobby on a Tuesday.
Ask what an artist's work has sold for and Cove answers, because that is public. Ask what this particular piece is worth and it declines, gracefully, every time. That line is the reason a university's counsel or a corporate board can say yes to this.
What it looks like in four buildings.
Attention, given somewhere to go.
Patients and families walk the corridors for hours. Every work explains itself when someone stops in front of it: who made it, what it is, why it is here. Not a guided tour with a route to maintain and reprint, but ambient, wherever a person happens to be walking.
The collection starts teaching.
Students meet the campus collection on their own time and at their own depth. A passing question becomes the artist, then the movement, then the institutional context, then the market. What was decoration in a building becomes something being learned.
What am I looking at, answered properly.
Guests learn about the local artists on the walls: who they are, what else they have made, who represents them, and what their work has sold for. The question arrives at the moment of curiosity and gets a real answer, without a plaque or an app.
And if a piece is for sale, they can ask what it costs and enquire before they check out.
Every piece carries its own story and its own price.
A donor scans a work, learns who made it and why it matters, sees what it costs and where the proceeds go, and enquires on the spot without finding a volunteer with a clipboard. You decide what each pass shows, and it expires on its own.
When a work is available.
Mark a piece available, publish an asking price or simply "enquire for price," and add a line that visitors see word for word: Proceeds fund the residency. Silent auction, bids close Friday. Edition of twelve, three remaining. The visitor reads it and can enquire where they stand.
Which works, and which audience.
One switch decides which pieces are available at all. A separate one decides whether this particular pass shows any of it. The lobby tour and the benefit evening are not the same room.
The line is shown verbatim.
Whatever you write appears exactly as written, next to the price. No template, no house style imposed on your fundraiser.
An asking price is not a valuation.
Publishing what you are asking never exposes what the collection paid or what Cove estimates the piece is worth. They are separate grants, by design.
Certified for the board, the auditor, and the registrar.
Cove's appraisers are credentialed professionals. Qualified appraisals meet IRS requirements and are prepared to USPAP standards — for incoming donations, outgoing loans, insurance schedules, and the annual questions a board is obligated to ask.
Access is permissioned by person and by purpose: the registrar sees condition and location, the CFO sees values, the insurer sees the schedule, the docent program sees the stories. Everyone works from the same record, and no one sees more than their role requires.
The same monitoring, with the reporting your board requires.
Schedules that stay true.
Insurance schedules drift as markets move. Cove watches every object and flags the works whose coverage no longer matches the evidence — before renewal, not after a claim.
Intelligence & monitoringWhen a holding moves.
A retrospective is announced, an artist's market strengthens, a comparable sells. The works affected in your holding are flagged, with the evidence attached and the next step laid out.
Yours, exportable, always.
The full record exports at any time, fully organized — for the auditor, the new registrar, or the day the institution chooses a different path. Cove earns the relationship by what arrives.
Security at CoveBring the collection up to the standard.
Tell us about the collection and its obligations. A member of the Cove team will reach out to scope the work.
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