Serralves

Museum projects are notoriously complex due to the nature of their data:

Legacy Data Migration: Successfully migrating 20 years of heterogeneous content, thousands of exhibitions, artists, and archival records, without losing SEO value or historical context.

The "Acervo" Integration: Connecting the frontend to a complex, specialized API for the museum’s permanent collection (Acervo), ensuring high speed browsing of high resolution artworks.

Bilingual Complexity: Maintaining a deep level English/Portuguese experience for an international audience, including localized metadata for art researchers.

The Solution

• The Great Migration
• I architected a custom ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipeline to ingest two decades of legacy data into the Bondlayer engine. This involved:
  Sanitizing fragmented HTML content from older systems.
  Mapping legacy taxonomies to a modern, flexible PostgreSQL JSONB structure.
  Implementing a robust 301-redirect strategy to preserve the museum's significant SEO ranking built over 20 years.
• Specialized API Integration (The Acervo)
• The core of the museum is its collection. I developed a high performance middleware to interface with the specialized Acervo API.
  Performance: Implemented an intelligent caching layer to ensure that thousands of high resolution images and artist records loaded instantly.
  Searchability: Built advanced server side filtering to allow users to explore the collection by artist, medium, period, or movement.
• Unified Web & App Ecosystem (React & React Native)
• The Website: A high fidelity, accessible portal designed to showcase the beauty of the Serralves park and museum.
  The App: A native companion built with React Native, serving as an interactive guide for visitors exploring the 14-hectare park and the contemporary art galleries.
  The Impact Digital Continuity: Preserved the digital legacy of Serralves while providing a foundation for the next 20 years of content.
  Public Access: Opened the museum's permanent collection to the world through a fast, searchable, and beautiful digital interface.
  Operational Ease: Empowered the Serralves communication team with a unified CMS, allowing them to manage the museum's agenda and park events with unprecedented speed.
  Technical Highlights Core Stack: React (Web), React Native (Mobile), Node.js.
  Database: PostgreSQL with specialized JSONB schemas for art metadata.
  Integrations: Custom REST API middleware for museum archives (Acervo).
  Infrastructure: AWS backed high availability scaling to handle major exhibition launches.