User talk:Erik Zachte/Museum Boerhaave

List of aspects / subjects that could help to make this an better article.

• Mission of the museum
• Name of the museum (why chosen)
• History of the museum (building and institution)

[1]

• • Date of opening
  • Mile stones in its existence
  • Major architectural enhancements, by architect ...
  • Ground plan of museum ??

• Recent major projects:
  • Exhibitions (in summary only)
  • ...

• Collection
  • Museum is ordered in 25 rooms each with a theme (compare Chinese version of article)

• Top pieces in the museum
  • Ordered by person ? science ? room ? + links to other Wikipedia articles
• List of Nobel Prize Winners for which MB has relevant content

See this [2] MB publication

Examples of articles where we can draw inspiration from

Popular articles

• American_Museum_of_Natural_History B class
• Kennedy_Space_Center C class

Infobox

Add info box! (any article worth its salt has an info box, see e.g. Tropenmuseum, Rijksmuseum_Amsterdam)

Tropenmuseum The location of the Tropenmuseum Established 1864 Location Amsterdam, Netherlands Coordinates 52.362692°N 4.922517°E / 52.362692; 4.922517 Type Anthropological museum Collection size 340,000 objects Visitors 176,000 visitors (2009) Director Lejo Schenk Curator Koos van Brakel Public transit access Alexanderplein GVB tram lines 9, 10, 14 Website www.tropenmuseum.nl

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Established 1800 Location Museumplein Amsterdam, Netherlands Type National museum Visitors 1,100,488 (2002) Director Wim Pijbes Curator Taco Dibbits Website www.rijksmuseum.nl

Museum Boerhaave Established 1991 (= current site, see [3]) Location Lange Sint Agnietenstraat 10 Leiden, Netherlands Type History of science museum Collection size 25 rooms, 211 showcases, approx. 3000 objects Visitors 42,187 (2008) Director Dirk van Delft Curator Hans Hooijmaijers Public transit access Central Station Leiden (10 minutes walk, 900 meter) Website www.museumboerhaave.nl

http://www.museumboerhaave.nl/AAcollection/english/index.html

Navigation Box

New navigation template 'Popular visitor attractions in Leiden' see e.g. American_Museum_of_Natural_History <- [[4]] (can we supply visitor counts for all attractions like the one in New York does ??)
"Popular visitor attractions in Leiden" or "Museums in Leiden" or "Museums and Monuments in Leiden" (check couple of other cities) hmm few Dutch cities seem to have on e(yet)