Independent researchers
Keep source retrieval, identity checks, contradictions, and confidence language consistent across projects.
Downloadable research toolkit
Meta Museum Provenance Research Kit
Use source-first templates to investigate provenance, separate claims from evidence, assess reuse rights, and produce citation-ready research notes.
Collectors and advisers
Organize documentary leads and unresolved questions before seeking specialist, legal, or authentication advice.
Educators and students
Teach the difference between a plausible story, a cited observation, and a defensible conclusion.
Price
USD 29, one-time purchase. Secure hosted checkout and automatic access after Stripe confirms payment.
Format
One portable Markdown workbook containing reusable instructions, tables, prompts, and checklists. Save it, copy it, or adapt it for your own research.
Operator
Sun & Rain Works operates Meta Museum. The checkout provider processes payment details; Meta Museum does not receive full card numbers.
Included
A disciplined research process, ready to reuse.
- A provenance research workflow from question framing through final limitations
- Claim and evidence matrix for sources, quotations, certainty, and conflicts
- Object identity and collision checklist
- Rights and image-reuse worksheet
- Source and receipt ledger with retrieval and file-hash fields
- Citation-bound AI prompts with refusal and uncertainty rules
- A publication-readiness checklist
Immediate delivery: one versioned, portable Markdown workbook after Stripe confirms payment. No account is required.
Important boundaries
The kit is a research aid, not an authentication, appraisal, title opinion, legal opinion, or guarantee of provenance.
Purchase does not include artwork images, image licenses, custom research, or access to private collection data.
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Never identify an object from one shared feature. Similar dimensions, translated titles, and repeated subjects can produce convincing collisions.
The workbook uses explicit certainty labels—documented, strongly supported, possible, unresolved, and disconfirmed—and requires every material claim to map to a retained source.