Know where everything is, before someone else needs to find it

It is a two-hour working session — in person at your home or a chosen venue — where we guide one household through drawing a simple floor plan and marking where documents, keys, deed copies and significant objects are kept. The result is a single sheet of paper that a trusted person could follow without needing to ask questions. We do not advise on what to do with any of the items marked.

Yes and yes. The session can run at your home, at our Kuala Lumpur address or at another private location. Group sessions hold a maximum of eight participants from the same household or family. You mark only what you choose to mark; nothing is recorded by us beyond the plan you draw yourself.

No. The six-week programme is built around equipment most families own — a smartphone camera is sufficient for most sessions. We teach lighting with available daylight and affordable diffusers, scale references using common objects, and file management on ordinary computers. A photography standard sheet is included so you can apply the method independently after the programme ends.

No. Descriptions produced in our programmes record what can be observed — dimensions, materials, markings, condition, provenance as known — and separate that from family memory or tradition. Financial valuation, ownership confirmation and distribution advice are outside our scope entirely. We will refer you to a qualified appraiser or legal professional for those questions.

The standard engagement runs seven to ten months, depending on collection size, staff availability and the condition of existing records. It includes a full collection survey, description schema, digitisation planning, storage recommendations, six days of training and a closing report. We schedule the work around your institution's calendar and the availability of its volunteers.

It is designed for small museums, heritage houses and charitable trusts — collections that are meaningful but not managed by a large professional staff. If your collection is a single family room of objects rather than an institutional holding, the object provenance programme is likely a better starting point. We are happy to discuss the boundary in an initial enquiry call.

Our programmes are delivered in English. For the mapping session and photography programme, the family does their own marking and writing — so the plan itself can be in any language the household uses. For the institutional consulting engagement, we can note languages present in a collection and plan accordingly, though translation and scholarly interpretation of non-English documents falls outside our scope.