Recently at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, we completed an overhaul of the website\'s search functionality that allows us to take broad, open queries and return meaningful results. These changes include a migration from Solr to Elasticsearch as the back-end provider, the incorporation of non-objects into the search index, and a redesign of the front-end to expose sorting and faceting functionality to the user. In our paper, we discuss the experimentation and reasoning that led to our decision to begin the rebuilding, the implementation of the changes in our site framework, and the resulting speed and accuracy improvements.