A comprehensive EDRMS implementation is also in planning.

"We will be virtualising and clustering across two buildings for live migration and DR, including offsite to a data centre," Holt says.

Everything from switching, servers and wireless will be modernised and the network will be extended to the museum's working ships using satellite and 3G.

"We are trying to achieve a high level of ICT maturity over the next 18 months," holt says. "We want to be able to say yes to all the innovation people come up with."

Along with the new infrastructure will come a SharePoint portal, which would also be migrated to the cloud once all the necessary integration components are finalised.