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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

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Ongoing cleanup

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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

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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

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Categories for discussion

Good article nominees

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

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Articles needing tagging

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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

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


Museums and libraries AfDs

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Museums and libraries Proposed Deletions

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Recognized content

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Biblioteca Marciana • Bodiam Castle • Bruce Castle • Ceilings of the Natural History Museum, London • Chartwell • The Cloisters • USS Constitution • Cragside • Empire of the Sultans • 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 • Merchant's House Museum • USS Missouri (BB-63) • Museum of Bad Art • Norton Priory • Palazzo Pitti • Franklin Peale • Secretum (British Museum) • Tower of London • John Treloar (museum administrator) • HMS Warrior (1860) • West Wycombe Park

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Baden-Powell House • New Orleans Mint

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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

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HMS Belfast

Good articles

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Alatskivi Castle • Arnolfini, Bristol • Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art • Barrington Court • Bath Abbey • Bath Assembly Rooms • Beckford's Tower • Beit Al Quran • HMS Belfast • Congregation Beth Israel (Scottsdale, Arizona) • Blagdon Lake • Blaise Castle Estate • British Engineerium • 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 • Dia Bridgehampton • DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center • Dunster Castle • Dunster Working Watermill • Dyrham Park • Ebenezer Avery House • Eisenhower National Historic Site • Eldridge Street Synagogue • Ellwood House • Farleigh Hungerford Castle • 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 • William B. Jordan • Kenilworth Castle • John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum • Kew Herbarium • Khalili Collection of Aramaic Documents • King John's Hunting Lodge, Axbridge • Kingston Lacy • La Nube • Lacock Abbey • Layton Art Gallery • Letocetum • Louvre Abu Dhabi • Lyme Park • Lytes Cary • Madame Tussauds Hong Kong • USS Massachusetts (BB-59) • Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici • Montacute House • Morgan Library & Museum • Morris–Jumel Mansion • Museum de Oude Wolden • Museum of Contemporary Art Australia • Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago • 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 • New York Hall of Science • 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 • Pokémon Fossil Museum

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Former good articles

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British Library • City and Town Hall (Rochelle, Illinois) • Flat Top Manor • Forbidden City • Juliana Force • Gunston Hall • Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame • Kentucky Railway Museum • Louvre • Mark Twain House • Met Gala • The Museum of Curiosity • Museum of the Portuguese Language • North Carolina Transportation Museum • Sistine Chapel • USS Texas (BB-35) • Tower Building of the Little Rock Arsenal • Vilnius Castle Complex • White Pine Village

Good article nominees

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Blenko Glass Company • HMS Victory

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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:ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.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:Bibliothèque humaniste de Sélestat 21 janvier 2014-97.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:Jinwan Arts Center dllu 01.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:Monasterio de El Escorial en Madrid.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:Museo de Historia Natural, Londres, Inglaterra, 2022-11-25, DD 50-52 HDR.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:Nighttime view of the Broad in LA, corner dllu.jpg • File:Palacio Belvedere, Viena, Austria, 2020-02-01, DD 93-95 HDR.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:TulipStair QueensHouse Greenwich.jpg • File:Wroclaw-Rathaus.jpg

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Did you know? articles

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Nawala Al-Mutawalli (2025-04-15) • Lydie Pongault (2025-03-18) • Women's History Museum of Zambia (2025-03-08) • Henry (tuatara) (2025-02-25) • Joseph R. Biden Jr. Presidential Library (2025-01-28) • Tomato Industrial Museum D. Nomikos (2024-12-21) • Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies (2024-11-15) • Irish Museum of Time (2024-11-11) • New York Hall of Science (2024-10-27) • Trade Fair Palace (2024-10-12) • Victoria Siddall (2024-10-11) • La Nube (2024-09-23) • Morgan Library & Museum (2024-09-15) • Henrik Igityan National Centre for Aesthetics (2024-08-22) • Mercer Art Gallery (2024-08-17) • The American Pigeon Museum & Library (2024-08-15) • Poozeum (2024-08-13) • Sophienburg Museum and Archives (2024-07-29) • Peale's Philadelphia Museum (2024-06-06) • Lyceum Theatre (Boston) (2024-06-03) • Galileo's middle finger (2024-05-30) • Eldridge Street Synagogue (2024-05-24) • Heaven on Earth: Art from Islamic Lands (2024-05-19) • Herodian Quarter (2024-04-12) • 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) • West Virginia Music Hall of Fame (2021-12-01) • 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)

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Main page featured articles

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Secretum (British Museum) (2024-10-03) • Empire of the Sultans (2024-07-23) • 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

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Drents Museum (2025-01-28) • 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

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File:ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.jpg (2025-03-31) • File:Kitt Peak National Observatory in the Quinlan Mountains, 2023.jpg (2024-12-10) • File:Narva asv2022-04 img09 Castle.jpg (2024-11-07) • File:Schloss Sigmaringen 2022.jpg (2024-09-07) • 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:TulipStair QueensHouse Greenwich.jpg (2007-01-06) • File:Nat-gall-lond-tr-sq2.jpg (2004-07-31)


Categories

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

Resources

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

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Commons:WikiProject Museums.

See also

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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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