Template:Infobox museum/doc

Usage

Copy a blank version to use. All fields must be lowercase, and all are optional except for name, established, location, and website.

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{{Infobox museum |name = |image = |imagesize = 200 |map_type = |map_caption = |latitude = |longitude = |established = |dissolved = |location = |type = |visitors = |director = |curator = |publictransit = |website = }}	REQUIRED             REQUIRED   REQUIRED           REQUIRED

Description of fields

Field names with asterisks (*) are required 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

image

Logo or graphic by which the company is currently and most readily identified. This is preferentially a gray-scale image.

imagesize

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

map_type

Caption given to map if latitude and longitude are used.
Example: FooTown

latitude

The latitude coordinate of the museum.
Example: 51.45

longitude

The longitude coordinate of the museum.
Example: -2.5813

established *

Date of the museum's establishment.
Example: [[31 March]] [[1997]]

dissolved

If defunct, date the museum was dissolved.
Example: [[31 December]] [[2007]]

location *

Location of the museum.
Example: [[National Mall]], [[Washington D.C.]]
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]]

visitors

Number of visitors.
Example: 417,096 (2005)

director

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

curator

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

publictransit

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

website

Official or primary website operated by the museum.
Example: [http://www.fooart.museum/ www.fooart.museum]

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.