museum

institution that holds artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, historical, or other importance
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museum

Summary

museum is a type of institution[1]. museum draws 3,795 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_institution category, ranking #1 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • museum's instance of is recorded as type of institution[3].
  • museum is a type of GLAM[4].
  • museum is a type of institution[5].
  • museum is a type of venue[6].
  • museum's Commons category is recorded as Museums[7].
  • museum's sRGB color hex triplet is recorded as 8B4513[8].
  • museum's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Museums[9].
  • museum's Commons gallery is recorded as Museum[10].
  • museum's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Museums[11].
  • museum's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as tourism=museum[12].
  • museum's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • museum's described by source is recorded as Green Map Icons[14].
  • museum's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[15].
  • museum's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • museum's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[17].
  • museum's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[18].
  • museum's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[19].
  • museum's described by source is recorded as Kartographer icon[20].
  • museum's described by source is recorded as Dresdner Hefte[21].
  • museum's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox museum[22].
  • museum's topic has template is recorded as Template:Museums in Indonesia[23].
  • museum's equivalent class is recorded as http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Museum[24].
  • museum's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/Museum[25].
  • museum's equivalent class is recorded as http://dati.beniculturali.it/cis/Museum[26].
  • museum's different from is recorded as museum building[27].

Body

Definition and Type

museum's instance of is recorded as type of institution[3]. Recorded subclass of include GLAM[4], institution[5], and venue[6].

Influence

Things named for museum include International Museum Day[28], a world day[29], founded in 1977[30]; Georgia O'Keeffe Museum[31], an art museum[32], in United States[33], founded in 1997[34], headquartered in Santa Fe[35]; Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum[36], a maritime museum[37], in Japan[38]; Museum of All Things[39], a video game[40]; .museum[41], a sponsored top-level domain[42], founded in 2001[43]; Video Game Museum[44], a website[45], founded in 1999[46]; and Gloria Musaealis[47], an award[48], in Czech Republic[49], founded in 2002[50].

Why It Matters

museum draws 3,795 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_institution category, ranking #1 of 8).[2] museum has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[51] museum is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[52]

Entities named for museum include International Museum Day[28], a world day[29], founded in 1977[30]; Georgia O'Keeffe Museum[31], an art museum[32], in United States[33], founded in 1997[34], headquartered in Santa Fe[35]; Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum[36], a maritime museum[37], in Japan[38]; Museum of All Things[39], a video game[40]; .museum[41], a sponsored top-level domain[42], founded in 2001[43]; and Video Game Museum[44], a website[45], founded in 1999[46].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [36] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [39] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [41] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [44] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [47] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [40] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [42] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [43] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [45] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  13. [46] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  14. [48] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  15. [49] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  16. [50] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [51] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [52] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 19h ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 Q463
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48942|batch #48942]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM keys"
  2. 11d ago · Kinsio · 2026-08-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4, Open Culture / GLAM Glossary
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P5008]]: [[Q140249898]]"
  3. 22d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag ['museum', 'museums']
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: museums, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289955300|museums (#289955300)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  4. 5w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14610
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||zh, zh-hans, zh-hant, zh-cn, zh-sg, zh-my, zh-hk, zh-tw, zh-mo, mul */ Cleanup: remove self_stated_in refs; add mul alias ([[User:Difool/WikidataCle"
  5. 6w ago · Maculosae tegmine lyncis · 2026-07-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14610
    Properties for this type P539, P4290, P856 +20
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P14610]]: [[Q66310313]]"
  6. 6w ago · AHIOH · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Properties for this type P539, P4290, P856 +20
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1963]]: [[Property:P159]]"
  7. 6w ago · AHIOH · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of GLAM, institution, venue
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q1554231]]"
  8. 7w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag ['museum', 'museums']
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: museum, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289955282|museum (#289955282)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  9. 7w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopædia britannica online id topic/museum-cultural-institution
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P1417]]: topic/museum-cultural-institution, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/9631420|museum (#9631420)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/169|EB]]"
  10. 9w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4, Open Culture / GLAM Glossary
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
  11. 10w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id h0001938-muzea
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0001938-muzea, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  12. 10w ago · Back ache · 2026-06-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described at url https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/inno/stories/news/2014/12/02/chicago-museum-
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P973]]: https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/inno/stories/news/2014/12/02/chicago-museum-of-holography-rescue-mission.html"
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