Private Family Offices

We empower Private Family Offices to meet their mission, steward family legacy, and share the stories at the heart of their collections

We provide highly specialized stewardship services for private art, historical artifacts, and multi-generational family archives across the United States. Having built trusted, multi-year partnerships with prominent family offices, we understand that handling personal collections requires absolute discretion, deep emotional intelligence, and meticulous care. By balancing emotional intelligence with strategic business practices, we design sustainable programs built to protect and deliver access to collections for generations to come. Delivering end-to-end solutions—from collection program development, to artifact management, to digital asset preservation pipelines—Relicura guarantees that high-value cultural assets remain cared for, expertly managed, and future-proofed.

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Whether it’s million dollar artwork pieces or the family archive of correspondence, photographs, and cookbooks – caring for these cultural assets is often a big part of the family office stewardship responsibilities.

So, if you’re seeking…

Deep museum and archival expertise paired with a sophisticated understanding of the family office ecosystem
Protecting collections of extreme financial or sentimental value
Implementing systems to support complex trust, legal, and tax requirements
Multi-Generational family engagement and active participation in legacy curation projects
Absolute discretion and emotional intelligence built into a sustainable stewardship program

We’ve got you.

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Each family office is unique and we tailor our services to meet the needs of your organization and the family it supports. Here are our core offerings. Each element is thoughtfully crafted to help you implement a sustainable, trusted stewardship program.

Collection Program Creation & Development

Strategic Planning: Assessing existing or past collection efforts, conducting stakeholder interviews, and defining the collecting mission and program purview.
Family Engagement: Fostering family buy-in across multiple generations, facilitating stakeholder discussions, and conducting peer family office comparisons.

Collections Assessment & Planning for Archives & Artifacts

Holistic Surveys & Space Guidance: Performing physical and digital collection surveys and advising on physical space engineering and environmental controls.
Governance & Emergency Preparedness: Developing operational policies and procedures, along with disaster and emergency management plans.
Staff Training: Educating and training internal family office caretakers and staff on collections management best practices.

Collections Management System (CMS) & Database Solutions

Software Selection & Customization: Leading CMS search, selection, system configuration, and customization to meet tax, legal, and operational needs.
Data Remediation & Migration: Performing historical collection data cleanup and managing data migration from legacy databases.
Vendor & Technical Liaison: Serving as the technical liaison between family offices and database vendors, as well as providing ongoing database management.

Digital Collections Preservation & Management Frameworks

Preservation Pipelines & Strategy: Designing digital preservation frameworks and providing software and equipment recommendations.
System Adoption: Guiding the adoption and setup of Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS) or Preservation Management Systems (PMS).
Digitization & Cataloging: Managing digital asset workflows, metadata creation, and cataloging standards.

Additional Specialized Services

Family Legacy Curation: Curating archival holdings to support family history projects, books, authorship, and documentaries.
Genealogical Research: Conducting specialized archival research to uncover and document family lineage.

Frequently Asked Questions

What types of collections and cultural assets does Relicura steward?

How do you handle privacy and confidentiality for private family offices?

Can you help us select and customize a database for tax, legal, or trust requirements?

How do you engage multiple generations of a family in collection stewardship?

Do you provide guidance on physical storage, facility design, and emergency planning?

What digital preservation services do you offer for physical and digital archives?

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