Wikidata:WikiProject Museums

WikiProject Museums

The project

Musée de France

The aim of the WikiProject Museums is :

• to define properties for items related to museums and the rules of use for these properties (qualifiers, datatypes, ...)
• to organize the creation and improving the quality of the elements

 Info You can use autoEdit tool to add quickly label and description on WikiProject Museums in many languages.

There are currently (Feb 2022) 64,236 museum items on Wikdata (query tool link).

According to The World Museum Community, there are more than 55 000 museums in 202 countries.

Location

Title	ID	Data type	Description	Examples	Inverse
country	P17	Item	country: sovereign state that this item is in (not to be used for human beings)	Louvre Museum <country> France	-
located in the administrative territorial entity	P131	Item	administrative territorial entity: the item is located on the territory of the following administrative entity. Use P276 for specifying locations that are non-administrative places and for items about events. Use P1382 if the item falls only partially into the administrative entity.	Louvre Museum <located in the administrative territorial entity> 1st arrondissement of Paris	-
location	P276	Item	physical location: location of the object, structure or event. In the case of an administrative entity as containing item use P131. For statistical entities use P8138. In the case of a geographic entity use P706. Use P7153 for locations associated with the object	Louvre Museum <location> Louvre Palace	-
located on street	P669	Item	street: street, road, or square, where the item is located. To add the number, use Property:P670 "house number" as qualifier. Use property P6375 "street address", if there is no item for the street	Louvre Museum <located on street> rue de Rivoli	-
street address	P6375	Monolingual text	street address, address and street: full street address where subject is located. Include building number, city/locality, post code, but not country; use also P669 if the street has its own separate item	Louvre Museum <street address> rue de Rivoli	-
coordinate location	P625	Geographic coordinates	geographic coordinate: geocoordinates of the subject. For Earth, please note that only WGS84 coordinating system is supported at the moment	Louvre Museum <coordinate location> 48°51'39.92"N, 2°20'8.70"E	-
headquarters location	P159	Item	headquarters, siège social, seat, episcopal see and titular see: city or town, where an organization's headquarters is or has been situated. Use P276 qualifier for specific building	National Museum in Kraków <headquarters location> Main Building	-

If the property location (P276) has a value, coordinate location (P625) is not mandatory.

Practical information

Title	ID	Data type	Description	Examples	Inverse
fee	P2555	Quantity	fee: fee or toll payable to use, transit or enter the subject (only for one-time fees, do NOT use it for an ongoing fee, tuition fee or trading fee)	Louvre Museum <fee>	-
payment types accepted	P2851	Item	payment: types of payment accepted by a venue	Louvre Museum <payment types accepted>	-
open days	P3025	Item	days in the week subject item is open within the opening season	Louvre Museum <open days>	-
closed on	P3026	Item	exceptions to open days (P3025), usually special dates	Louvre Museum <closed on>	-
open period from	P3027	Item	qualifier to P3025 (open days) for season when open days apply	Louvre Museum <open period from>	-
open period to	P3028	Item	qualifier to P3025 (open days) for season when open days apply	Louvre Museum <open period to>	-
disabled accessibility	P2846	Item	wheelchair accessibility and accessibility for people with visual disabilities: describes disabled accessibility of location or event	Louvre Museum <disabled accessibility> wheelchair accessible	-

Communications

Title	ID	Data type	Description	Examples	Inverse
phone number	P1329	String	telephone number: telephone number in standard format (RFC3966), without 'tel:' prefix	Louvre Museum <phone number> +33 1 40 20 53 17	-
fax number	P2900	String	fax number: telephone number of a facsimile line	Louvre Museum <fax number> +33 1 40 20 54 52	-
email address	P968	URL	email address: email address, prefixed with mailto:	Louvre Museum <email address> mailto:info@louvre.fr	-
official website	P856	URL	official website and home page: URL of the official page of an item (current or former). Usage: If a listed URL no longer points to the official website, do not remove it, but see the "Hijacked or dead websites" section of the Talk page	Louvre Museum <official website> http://www.louvre.fr/	-
logo image	P154	Commons media file	logo: graphic mark or emblem commonly used by commercial enterprises, organizations and products	National Gallery of Canada <logo image> National Gallery of Canada logo.svg	-
Twitter (X) username	P2002	External identifier	X account: this item's username on X (formerly Twitter); do not include the “@” symbol	Louvre Museum <Twitter (X) username> MuseeLouvre	-
Instagram username	P2003	External identifier	item's username on Instagram	Louvre Museum <Instagram username> museelouvre	-
Facebook username	P2013	External identifier	Facebook page: identifier for an official (preferably) Facebook person, product or organization page (everything that follows URL part 'https://www.facebook.com/')	Louvre Museum <Facebook username> museedulouvre	-
YouTube channel ID	P2397	External identifier	YouTube channel: ID of the YouTube channel of a person or organisation (not to be confused with the name of the channel) The ID can also be used for music.youtube.com IDs	Louvre Museum <YouTube channel ID> UCafm6w_rPndqAtokQy04Jdw	-
GitHub username	P2037	External identifier	username of this project, person or organization on GitHub	British Museum <GitHub username> BritishMuseum	-
Google Maps Customer ID	P3749	External identifier	in Google Maps, Customer identifier for a place	Louvre Museum <Google Maps Customer ID> 13363865620386383060	-
TripAdvisor ID	P3134	External identifier	identifier of a place (region, hotel, restaurant, attraction), in TripAdvisor	Louvre Museum <TripAdvisor ID> g187147-d188757	-
Yelp ID	P3108	External identifier	identifier of a place, in Yelp.com	Louvre Museum <Yelp ID> musée-du-louvre-paris-2	-
Michelin Voyages ID	P4161	External identifier	Guide Vert and Michelin Guide: identifier for a place in the website Michelin Voyages	Louvre Museum <Michelin Voyages ID> europe/france/ile-de-france/ville-de-paris/paris/musee-du-louvre	-
Instagram location ID	P4173	External identifier	identifier for a location on Instagram	Louvre Museum <Instagram location ID> 683630	-

Dates

Title	ID	Data type	Description	Examples	Inverse
inception	P571	Point in time	date of establishment: time when an entity begins to exist; for date of official opening use P1619	Louvre Museum <inception> 1792	-
dissolved, abolished or demolished date	P576	Point in time	date of dissolution, abolition or demolition: point in time at which the subject (organisation, building) ceased to exist; see "date of official closure" (P3999) for closing a facility, "service retirement" (P730) for retiring equipment, "discontinued date" (P2669) for stopping a product	Deutsches Museum <dissolved, abolished or demolished date> 1939	-

Specific for museum

Title	ID	Data type	Description	Examples	Inverse
director / manager	P1037	Item	leader of organization: person who manages any kind of group	Louvre Museum <director / manager> Jean-Luc Martinez	-
visitors per year	P1174	Quantity	number of visitors per year: number of people visiting a location or an event each year	Louvre Museum <visitors per year> 9,330,000±5000	-
Commons Institution page	P1612	String	Commons Institution page: name of the institutions's page on Wikimedia Commons (without the prefix "Institution")	Louvre Museum <Commons Institution page> Louvre	-
collection or exhibition size	P1436	Quantity	number of items in a collection or exhibition	Louvre Museum <collection or exhibition size> 460,000±5000	-

Identifier properties

• Property:P791 ISIL ID (P791) International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organizations

instance of (P31)

• List of subclasses of museum (Q33506)

• Typology of heritage institutions

Current tasks

Add your tasks here to work as a team!

• musée de France (in french) : “musée de France” is a label given to the main french museums.
• Add National Geographic Museum - Done - Q23813327 - Fuzheado (talk) 02:38, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
• Remove USS Philadelphia Q2288745 as it is not a "museum ship" - Done - Fuzheado (talk) 02:38, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
• Verify the visitors per year (P1174) of this query: query tool link and add date. There are a lot of mistakes.

Tools

• Map of museums on Wikidata by Ambrosiani

Example Queries

• All museums in a specific country (example: Sweden) without coordinate location (P625): query tool link
• The 100 most visited museums in the world (according to Wikidata): query tool link
• Everyone who has worked at a museum: query tool link
• Everyone who has worked at a specific museum (example: Nordic Museum (Q1142142)): query tool link
• Map of museums: query tool link

participants

[+] Add yourself to the list

The participants listed below can be notified using the following template in discussions:
{{Ping project|Museums}}

• Tubezlob
• VIGNERON
• Jane023
• Pigsonthewing
• Ambrosiani
• Spinster
• Wittylama
• Fuzheado
• Emijrp
• Daniel Mietchen
• Marsupium
• Martingggg
• Anne-LaureM
• Beat Estermann
• Manu1400
• Mauricio V. Genta
• Patafisik
• MartinPoulter
• Tris T7
• BeatrixBelibaste
• Clifflandis
• Mrtngrsbch
• Reciproque
• Weadock313 (talk) 21:56, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
• ProtoplasmaKid
• Crowjane7
• Scarey1 (talk) 11:55, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
• Zblace
• Suna no onna
• Maxime Ravel
• Antoine2711
• S.v.Mering

References