Template:Infobox museum/doc

Usage

Copy a blank version to use. All fields must be lowercase.

Vertical list

{{Infobox museum | name = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = | imagesize = | caption = | alt = | map_type = | map_relief = | map_size = | map_caption = | map_dot_label = | latitude = | longitude = | lat_deg = | lat_min = | lat_sec = | lat_dir = | lon_deg = | lon_min = | lon_sec = | lon_dir = | coordinates_type = | coordinates_region = | coordinates_format = | coordinates_display = | coordinates = | former_name = | established = <!-- {{Start date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} --> | dissolved = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} --> | location = | type = | accreditation = | key_holdings = | collections = | collection_size = | visitors = | founder = | director = | president = | chairperson = | curator = | historian = | owner = | publictransit = | car_park = | parking = | network = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | embedded = }}

Description of fields

Note that the examples below are presented in wikicode and do not necessarily reflect actual statistics.

name

Name of the museum
Example: Foo Museum of Art

native_name

Name of the museum in the local language, if different

native_name_lang

ISO 639-2 code for the local language, e.g. "fr" for French. If there is more than one native name, in different languages, enter those names using {{lang}}, instead.

image

Logo or graphic by which the museum is identified, omitting the wikilink brackets and the "file:" or "image:" namespace
Example: Louvre.jpg

imagesize

Size of the logo or graphic; the default size is 200px

caption

Image caption

alt

Alt text for image, for people who can't see the image

map_type

The name of the map template used to construct location map, see Template:Location map#Available map templates
Example: USA Alabama.

map_relief

Set this to y or any non-blank value to use a relief map image provided by the selected location map template (if a relief map is available). For additional information, see Template:Location map#Relief parameter.

map_size

Specify a pixel width for the map image. The default is 250.
Example: map_size=220 (not map_size=220px).

map_caption

Text displayed below the map image, if latitude and longitude are used
Example: FooTown

map_dot_label

Text displayed next to the dot on the map

latitude

The latitude coordinate of the museum
Example: 51.45
For DMS coordinates, use lat_deg, lat_min, lat_sec, and lat_dir.

longitude

The longitude coordinate of the museum
Example: -2.5813
For DMS coordinates, use lon_deg, lon_min, lon_sec, and lon_dir.

coordinates_type

A list of coordinate parameters passed to {{coord}}, such as region:GB_type:landmark_dim:100_source:enwiki-osgb36(NM423315). In most cases this list should at least include type:landmark. The default is simply type:landmark.

coordinates_region

The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 or ISO 3166-2 code, e.g. |coordinates_region=GB or |coordinates_region=US-NY

coordinates_format

coordinates_display

Usually inline,title, otherwise inline

coordinates

An alternative, taking {{Coord}} as a single value

former_name

Previous name(s)

established

Date of the museum's establishment. Use {{Start date}}.
Example: {{Start date|1997|03|31}}

dissolved

If defunct, date the museum was dissolved. Use {{End date}}.
Example: {{Start date|2007|12|31}}

location

Location of the museum
Example: [[National Mall]], [[Washington D.C.]], [[United States|US]]
Example: [[Moncton]], [[New Brunswick]], [[Canada]]

type

Type of museum, most likely Art museum, Science museum, Children's museum or similar
Example: [[Art museum]]
Example: [[Science museum]]
Example: [[Children's museum]]

accreditation

Accreditation
Example: [[American Alliance of Museums]]

key_holdings

Key holdings
Example: [[Flaming June]]

collections

Collections
Example: [[Baroque]]
Example: [[Pre-Raphaelite]]
Example: [[Golden Age]]

collection_size

Number of objects

visitors

Number of visitors
Example: 417,096 (2005)

founder

The museum's founder
Example: [[Harold Saxon]]

director

The museum's director
Example: [[Harold Saxon]]

president

Alternative to "director" above

curator

The curator of the museum
Example: [[John Smith]]

assistant curator

The assistant curator of the museum
Example: [[John Smith]]

owner

The owner of the museum
Example: [[Government of the City of Miami]]

publictransit

The nearest public transport stop
Example: [[Roosevelt/State (CTA)|Roosevelt Station]], [[Chicago Transit Authority]]

car_park

The nearest car park
Example: On site (no charge)

parking

Same as car park, but instead renders the label as "parking" for WP:ENGVAR purposes

network

If the museum is part of a museum network, specify the network name to invoke one of the network templates.

website

Official or primary website operated by the museum. Use the template {{URL}}.
Example: {{URL|example.org}}

embedded

Enter yes if this template is used as a module (sub-template) of another infobox.

Microformat

The HTML markup produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the place-name and location parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia, or via a browser tool operated by a person, to (for example) add the subject to an address book. Within the hCard is a Geo microformat, which additionally makes the coordinates (latitude & longitude) parsable, so that they can be, say, looked up on a map, or downloaded to a GPS unit. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.

Sub-templates

If the place or venue has "established", "founded", "opened" or similar dates, use {{start date}} for the earliest of those dates unless the date is before 1583 CE.

If it has a URL, use {{URL}}.

Please do not remove instances of these sub-templates.

Classes

hCard uses HTML classes including:

• adr
• agent
• category
• county-name
• extended-address
• fn
• label
• locality
• nickname
• note
• org
• region
• street-address
• uid
• url
• vcard

Geo is produced by calling {{coord}}, and uses HTML classes:

• geo
• latitude
• longitude

Please do not rename or remove these classes nor collapse nested elements which use them.

Precision

When giving coordinates, please use an appropriate level of precision. Do not use {{coord}}'s |name= parameter.