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Welcome to the Museums WikiProject! A chunk of this text has been stolen borrowed under GFDL ;) from other Wiki Projects.

Goals
  • Improve Wikipedia's coverage of museums.
  • Improve quality of existing articles
  • Expand smaller museums in non-English dominant countries where articles are little more than a sentence.
  • Create guidelines for articles about museums.
Scope
  • The project covers all articles about museums in a wide range of disciplines and locations throughout the world. By member consensus, it does not include aquaria, herbaria, zoos and other non-museum 'collections' because these are well-covered in other projects.
  • For those within the museum sector, and collaborations between Wikipedia and institutions, see Wikipedia:Advice for the cultural sector.

To Do[edit]

Ongoing cleanup[edit]

There is an ongoing cleanup/developing in the undeveloped stub articles of Category:Museums in Greece to determine which of them meet with notability standards, develop them to at least basic stubs and nominate for deletion all the rest. You can help here. Participants: User:Thaliapap, User:Hoverfish

Maintenance categories[edit]

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Article Alerts[edit]

Featured article candidates

Good article nominees

Requested moves

  • 26 Mar 2024 – Barrow Hill Engine Shed (talk · edit · hist) move request to Barrow Hill Roundhouse by Andy Dingley (t · c) was moved to Barrow Hill Roundhouse (talk · edit · hist) by Dekimasu (t · c) on 02 Apr 2024; see discussion

Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

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Articles needing tagging[edit]

A Bot/user using AWB is helping generate a list of articles that are in one or more of the museum subcats but not tagged for WP:Museum. Any help is welcome going through the list & removing those that shouldn't be tagged & tagging those that should. If there's a large list, it may be possible for a bot to work through the list

Deletion Discussions[edit]

In order to add any AfD/PRODs to the lists below, please follow the instructions here.


Museums and libraries AfDs[edit]

DOP Foundation[edit]

DOP Foundation (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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Nothing here indicates any kind of notability. The article has been around for a long time, and it's been in a poor state for a long time. Google proves that the organization exists, but I don't see anything that proves it should have an article here. Drmies (talk) 16:36, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Arts, Museums and libraries, Organizations, France, Spain, Venezuela, and Florida. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 16:40, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Delete: Clear failure of ORGCRIT. I could not find any reliable sources after a quick search and the sources listed refer only to the a section in the article which lists off exhibitions the foundation has been involved in. It's possible that these provide RS SIGCOV of the foundation itself. I don't have access to the sources but this seems unlikely to me that they do provide SIGVOC or are RS. If anyone finds any other sources please let me know. Jtrrs0 (talk) 16:46, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete In the BEFORE search, sources that came up are routine announcements.Nitish shetty (talk) 12:11, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Delete does not have any reliable sources, I tried clicking on them and my computer blocked me everytime so the sources are unreliable and the article also has multiple issues. ThtgirlLexi(talk) 6:15, 9 April 2024 (CDT)

Open Book Collective[edit]

Open Book Collective (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)
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The page may not meet Wikipedia's notability; perhaps - redirect to Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs BoraVoro (talk) 11:27, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @BoraVoro for your suggestion to delete this page. Maybe to share some details around why I thought it might be good to have a separate page on the Open Book Collective - this Open Access platform and community has been developed out of the Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs project, but as the COPIM project has ended and the Open Book Collective itself has matured and now is its own legal entity, I thought it might make more sense to have a separate entry for that initiative. I agree that the current state of the page is still rudimentary, but my hope is that this will be soo growing to include more detailed information around key collaborations, etc. in the space of non-profit OA book publishing, so would be grateful if this could be given space here on Wikipedia going forward. Thanks so much for your consideration, and all best, Flavoursofopen (talk) 09:33, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
thank you @Flavoursofopen for your passion and work. I'm not entirely in favor of deletion at this point. I am open to changing or withdrawing my vote. BoraVoro (talk) 09:48, 1 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 14:11, 5 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Museums and libraries Proposed Deletions[edit]

Recognized content[edit]

Featured articles[edit]

Biblioteca Marciana • Bodiam Castle • Bruce Castle • Ceilings of the Natural History Museum, London • Chartwell • The Cloisters • USS Constitution • Cragside • Ford Piquette Avenue Plant • Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam • Ham House • Hockey Hall of Fame • Icelandic Phallological Museum • Literary Hall • Little Moreton Hall • Ludwigsburg Palace • Manzanar • Mary Rose • USS Missouri (BB-63) • Museum of Bad Art • Norton Priory • Palazzo Pitti • Franklin Peale • Tower of London • John Treloar (museum administrator) • HMS Warrior (1860) • West Wycombe Park

Former featured articles[edit]

Baden-Powell House • New Orleans Mint

Featured article candidates[edit]

Empire of the Sultans

Featured lists[edit]

Leuchtenberg Gallery • List of Smithsonian museums • List of video games in the Museum of Modern Art • List of museums in Somerset • List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts: others)

A-Class articles[edit]

HMS Belfast

Good articles[edit]

Alatskivi Castle • Arnolfini • Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art • Barrington Court • Bath Abbey • Bath Assembly Rooms • Beckford's Tower • Beit Al Quran • HMS Belfast • Blagdon Lake • Blaise Castle Estate • British Engineerium • British Library • Byne's disease • Casa de Estudillo • Churchill War Rooms • Clevedon Court • Clinton Presidential Center • Coleridge Cottage • Copia (museum) • Craigflower Manor and Schoolhouse • Croatian Natural History Museum • Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens • Currency Building • DakshinaChitra • Debbane Palace • Derwent Valley Mills • Deshong Art Museum • DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center • Dunster Castle • Dunster Working Watermill • Dyrham Park • Ebenezer Avery House • Eisenhower National Historic Site • Ellwood House • Farleigh Hungerford Castle • Forbidden City • Fort Dansborg • Frick Collection • Fyne Court • Garbage Museum • Jordan Geller • Getty Center • Getty Villa • Glastonbury Abbey • Glenstone • Golden Age of Trucking Museum • Alice Gray • SS Great Britain • Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center • Hallie Ford Museum of Art • Holy Jesus Hospital • Imperial War Museum Duxford • Imperial War Museum • Imperial War Museum North • Indianapolis Museum of Art • Intrepid Museum • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft • Jewel Tower • John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum • William B. Jordan • Kenilworth Castle • Khalili Collection of Aramaic Documents • King John's Hunting Lodge, Axbridge • Kingston Lacy • Lacock Abbey • Letocetum • Louvre Abu Dhabi • Louvre • Lyme Park • Lytes Cary • Madame Tussauds Hong Kong • USS Massachusetts (BB-59) • Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici • Montacute House • Morris–Jumel Mansion • Museum de Oude Wolden • Museum of Contemporary Art Australia • Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago • The Museum of Curiosity • Museum of Socialist Art • My Old Kentucky Home State Park • Napoleonic looting of art • National Gallery • National Museum of Beirut • National Museum of African Art • National Press Monument • USS North Carolina (BB-55) • Old Korean Legation Museum • Old Stone House (Washington, D.C.) • Palais Rohan, Strasbourg • Palanga Amber Museum • Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum • Penrhyn Castle • Petersen Rock Garden • Equestrian Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki • Walter Potter • Powis Castle • The Precious Legacy • The Priest's House, Muchelney

Reached maximum of 100 out of 123 (full list)

Former good articles[edit]

City and Town Hall (Rochelle, Illinois) • Flat Top Manor • Juliana Force • Gunston Hall • Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame • Kentucky Railway Museum • Mark Twain House • Met Gala • Museum of the Portuguese Language • North Carolina Transportation Museum • Sistine Chapel • Tower Building of the Little Rock Arsenal • Vilnius Castle Complex • White Pine Village

Good article nominees[edit]

Izhorian museum • Merchant's House Museum

Featured pictures[edit]

File:001 Chateau de Chillon and Dents du Midi Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg • File:2018 - Château fort de Lourdes.jpg • File:44444 חדרו של דוד בן גוריון בצריף בשדה בוקר.jpg • File:BMW Welt Night.jpg • File:Bath Abbey Eastern Stained Glass, Somerset, UK - Diliff.jpg • File:Bath Abbey Exterior, Somerset, UK - Diliff.jpg • File:Bath Abbey Nave Fan Vaulting, Somerset, UK - Diliff.jpg • File:Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie asv2021-11 img1.jpg • File:Chapel Royal 360x180, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland - Diliff.jpg • File:Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand.jpg • File:Craigdarroch Castle just after sunset - view from the west, Victoria, Canada.jpg • File:Ely Cathedral Lady Chapel, Cambridgeshire, UK - Diliff.jpg • File:Ely Cathedral Octagon Lantern 3, Cambridgeshire, UK - Diliff.jpg • File:Hagia Sophia Mars 2013.jpg • File:Henriette Mayer van den Bergh - Van Lerius.jpg • File:Kilmainham Gaol Main Hall 2016-06-03.jpg • File:Kitt Peak National Observatory in the Quinlan Mountains, 2023.jpg • File:Louvre 2007 02 24 c.jpg • File:Marburg asv2022-02 img18 Castle.jpg • File:Museo Estatal de Historia, Moscú, Rusia, 2016-10-03, DD 49.jpg • File:Museo Príncipe Felipe, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, España, 2014-06-29, DD 56.JPG • File:Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw Main exhibition Gwoździec synagogue.jpg • File:Musée Galliera, Paris 21 July 2017.jpg • File:Narva asv2022-04 img09 Castle.jpg • File:Portal, Pitam Niwas Chowk, City Palace, Jaipur, 20191218 1000 9059.jpg • File:RUS-2016-Aerial-SPB-St Michael's Castle 02.jpg • File:Roman Baths in Bath Spa, England - July 2006.jpg • File:Ruine Aggstein 02.JPG • File:SL Colombo asv2020-01 img10 National Museum.jpg • File:Schloss Hohenschwangau 2021.jpg • File:Schloss Sigmaringen 2022.jpg • File:Segovia - Alcázar de Segovia 22 2017-10-24.jpg • File:Wroclaw-Rathaus.jpg

Former featured pictures[edit]

File:Nat-gall-lond-tr-sq2.jpg

Did you know? articles[edit]

Frick Collection (2024-03-31) • Safe House Black History Museum (2024-03-21) • Adila Laïdi-Hanieh (2024-01-28) • Van Cortlandt House (2024-01-25) • Empire of the Sultans (2024-01-18) • Kansas Business Hall of Fame (2024-01-06) • Al Qarara Cultural Museum (2023-12-28) • Springfield Science Museum (2023-12-27) • Palestine Museum of Natural History (2023-12-01) • Morris–Jumel Mansion (2023-11-23) • Deshong Art Museum (2023-11-22) • Merchant's House Museum (2023-11-04) • Intrepid Museum (2023-10-11) • Mitzura Arghezi (2023-10-06) • Ni'isjoohl totem pole (2023-10-04) • Museum of Norwich at the Bridewell (2023-09-25) • Gladys Quander Tancil (2023-08-09) • National Jewellery Museum (Morocco) (2023-07-12) • Republican Palace Museum (2023-06-07) • Equestrian Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki (2023-06-02) • Richard Childress Racing Museum (2023-04-08) • Powis Castle (2023-03-24) • Rancho Obi-Wan (2023-03-20) • Penrhyn Castle (2023-03-17) • Paul Delvaux Museum (2023-01-08) • Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam (2022-12-31) • Hasanpaşa Gasworks (2022-11-01) • Pokémon Fossil Museum (2022-10-31) • Patterson's Spade Mill (2022-10-28) • Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center (2022-09-16) • Bangabandhu Memorial Museum (2022-09-13) • BlossomWatch (2022-08-21) • Knowles Mill (2022-08-11) • Museo Cabeza de Juárez (2022-07-28) • Deutsches Romantik-Museum (2022-07-28) • Sakhalin Regional Museum (2022-06-19) • The Most Dangerous Animal in the World (2022-05-31) • Puente de Fierro (2022-05-28) • Fosterfields (2022-05-20) • Ashton Hawkins (2022-04-27) • Museum of Sexual Cultures (2022-04-11) • Froggyland (2022-04-09) • Napoleonic looting of art (2022-04-08) • Horpyna Vatchenko (2022-04-02) • Alena Aladava (2022-03-21) • Dow's Hill Interpretation Centre (2022-03-07) • Museum of Classic Sci-Fi (2022-03-03) • Casa Rull Museum (2022-02-21) • International Vinegar Museum (2022-02-14) • Stahls Automotive Collection (2022-02-11) • Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (2022-02-07) • Stanton Catlin (2022-01-09) • Phil Silvers Archival Museum (2022-01-02) • Wenzhou Museum (2021-12-19) • Maison James Norman Hall (2021-11-26) • Harry Ferris Brazenor (2021-10-26) • Jersey Maritime Museum (2021-10-23) • Ham House (2021-10-17) • Report on the restitution of African cultural heritage (2021-09-21) • National Museum of Vanuatu (2021-09-08) • Tāoga Niue Museum (2021-09-03) • Huanaki Cultural Centre & Museum (2021-09-03) • Cook Islands National Museum (2021-09-02) • James Dickinson (taxidermist) (2021-08-28) • Land of Lost Content (museum) (2021-08-27) • Leeds Tiger (2021-07-24) • Jordan Geller (2021-07-08) • National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History (2021-06-28) • Amna Suraka (2021-06-18) • Casa Anchieta (2021-06-12) • Robert Louis Stevenson Museum (2021-06-05) • Museum of French Art (2021-05-31) • Musée de l'Amérique francophone (2021-05-18) • Musée Archéologique de Dijon (2021-05-18) • Museum of Literature Ireland (2021-05-18) • Kosrae State Museum (2021-05-18) • Kimiuo Aisek Memorial Museum (2021-05-18) • Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art (2021-05-18) • Michael Xufu Huang (2021-05-07) • Currency Building (2021-05-05) • Hunterdon Art Museum (2021-04-19) • Vladimir K. Arseniev Museum of Far East History (2021-04-09) • Former British Consulate of Hakodate (2021-03-21) • Sèvres Egyptian Service (2021-02-10) • Khalili Collection of Aramaic Documents (2021-01-12) • Violet Crowther (2021-01-10) • Nationalmuseum robbery (2021-01-04) • Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum (2020-12-18) • Cannabis Museum (Japan) (2020-12-15) • Delaware County Institute of Science (2020-11-17) • William B. Jordan (2020-09-28) • Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery (2020-09-12) • Matchstick Marvels Museum (2020-09-10) • Nemuro City Museum of History and Nature (2020-09-09) • Dia Bridgehampton (2020-08-12) • Debbane Palace (2020-08-07) • The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture (2020-07-22) • List of Dia Art Foundation locations and sites (2020-07-18) • Nebuta Museum Wa Rasse (2020-06-12) • Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan (2020-06-10)

Reached maximum of 100 out of 776 (full list)

Main page featured articles[edit]

Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam (2023-05-17) • Ham House (2022-02-28) • Biblioteca Marciana (2021-03-25) • Ceilings of the Natural History Museum, London (2020-07-30) • Baden-Powell House (2020-02-08) • Chartwell (2019-09-29) • Ludwigsburg Palace (2019-05-18) • The Cloisters (2018-12-01) • Ford Piquette Avenue Plant (2018-06-16) • Cragside (2018-02-09) • Literary Hall (2017-09-23) • HMS Warrior (1860) (2015-12-29) • USS Constitution (2015-02-20) • Franklin Peale (2014-04-14) • John Treloar (museum administrator) (2013-11-11) • Icelandic Phallological Museum (2013-03-16) • Little Moreton Hall (2013-01-12) • Bodiam Castle (2011-09-15) • Tower of London (2010-09-29) • Norton Priory (2010-08-22) • Mary Rose (2010-07-19) • Bruce Castle (2009-07-02) • Museum of Bad Art (2009-04-01) • Manzanar (2008-04-26) • Hockey Hall of Fame (2008-03-07) • West Wycombe Park (2007-07-03) • New Orleans Mint (2007-03-07) • Palazzo Pitti (2006-03-15) • USS Missouri (BB-63) (2005-09-02)

In the News articles[edit]

Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City (2021-07-22) • Margaret Weston (2021-01-16) • Ricardo Brennand (2020-04-26) • Singer Laren (2020-03-31) • National Museum of Brazil fire (2018-09-03) • National Museum of Brazil (2018-09-03) • Cheryll Sotheran (2017-12-31) • National Museum of Natural History, New Delhi (2016-04-28) • Bardo National Museum attack (2015-03-18) • Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting (2014-05-25) • Neues Museum (2009-10-18) • Acropolis Museum (2009-06-20)

Picture of the day pictures[edit]

File:Portal, Pitam Niwas Chowk, City Palace, Jaipur, 20191218 1000 9059.jpg (2024-03-30) • File:Museo Príncipe Felipe, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, España, 2014-06-29, DD 56.JPG (2024-03-19) • File:001 Chateau de Chillon and Dents du Midi Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg (2024-02-10) • File:Ely Cathedral Lady Chapel, Cambridgeshire, UK - Diliff.jpg (2024-01-20) • File:2018 - Château fort de Lourdes.jpg (2024-01-10) • File:Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie asv2021-11 img1.jpg (2023-10-25) • File:Schloss Hohenschwangau 2021.jpg (2023-10-13) • File:Museo Estatal de Historia, Moscú, Rusia, 2016-10-03, DD 49.jpg (2023-10-02) • File:Segovia - Alcázar de Segovia 22 2017-10-24.jpg (2022-10-07) • File:SL Colombo asv2020-01 img10 National Museum.jpg (2022-04-04) • File:Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw Main exhibition Gwoździec synagogue.jpg (2022-01-08) • File:44444 חדרו של דוד בן גוריון בצריף בשדה בוקר.jpg (2021-06-05) • File:Musée Galliera, Paris 21 July 2017.jpg (2021-03-06) • File:Bath Abbey Eastern Stained Glass, Somerset, UK - Diliff.jpg (2021-02-28) • File:Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand.jpg (2021-01-20) • File:Wroclaw-Rathaus.jpg (2020-11-28) • File:Craigdarroch Castle just after sunset - view from the west, Victoria, Canada.jpg (2020-09-03) • File:RUS-2016-Aerial-SPB-St Michael's Castle 02.jpg (2020-05-20) • File:Kilmainham Gaol Main Hall 2016-06-03.jpg (2020-05-13) • File:Ruine Aggstein 02.JPG (2020-01-11) • File:Roman Baths in Bath Spa, England - July 2006.jpg (2019-11-15) • File:Bath Abbey Exterior, Somerset, UK - Diliff.jpg (2019-10-02) • File:Bath Abbey Nave Fan Vaulting, Somerset, UK - Diliff.jpg (2018-09-15) • File:Chapel Royal 360x180, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland - Diliff.jpg (2018-06-14) • File:Henriette Mayer van den Bergh - Van Lerius.jpg (2018-04-03) • File:Ely Cathedral Octagon Lantern 3, Cambridgeshire, UK - Diliff.jpg (2016-09-13) • File:Hagia Sophia Mars 2013.jpg (2014-11-20) • File:BMW Welt Night.jpg (2010-05-12) • File:Louvre 2007 02 24 c.jpg (2008-03-27) • File:Nat-gall-lond-tr-sq2.jpg (2004-07-31)


Categories[edit]

Category:Museums and Category:Exhibitions are the primary categories for this project. Many subcats can be found from those links.

Resources[edit]

Some resources which may be useful for those writing articles about museums:

Related projects[edit]

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See also[edit]

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

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