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Join the International Council of Museums (ICOM) in celebrating International Museum Day on May 18th. The Wikimedia movement is invited to improve content about museums from around the world on the Wikimedia projects and represent this year's theme: Museums for Education and Research.

Individual Wikimedians can respond to any of the three challenges — translation, media, and data — at any time in the month of May. Use the #IMD2024 on your edit summary when publishing an edit and register for International Museum Day 2024 on the Dashboard using your Wikimedia account, so we can count your edits and share them with ICOM: Register here Affiliates and user groups are welcome to organize more tailored events and campaigns. Suggested activities are described below.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

Affiliates or groups

If you are part of a Wikimedia affiliate (chapter or user group), WikiProject, cultural institution, or any other organized community, you could:

  1. Add your organization or group to the directory of contacts.
  2. Respond to one of the three challenges: translation, media, or data.
  3. Produce resources linked to International Museum Day (brochures, videos, posters, etc).
  4. Organize an activity (e.g. an event, panel, workshop, or edit-a-thon) and add it to the Planned Activities section below, or as a subpage for International Museum Day 2024.

Please track your activities so we can share the impact with ICOM. Either use the International Museum Day 2024 event dashboard for registrations or create your own and add it to the general International Museum Day campaign on the Outreach Dashboard. Use the #IMD2024 on the edit summary when publishing an edit or on social media.

The visuals created for this year's International Museum Day are available on Commons. Feel free to customize them to your language and context.


PLANNED ACTIVITIES

Add your activities below!

Wikimedia Argentina

As part of the celebrations for the International Museum Day, Wikimedia Argentina organized two activities.

Museo, Archivos y acciones colectivas

On May 28, the event Rosario en acceso abierto: Museo, Archivos y acciones colectivas was held by Wikimedia Argentina and the Museo de la Ciudad. Both organizations have been collaborating to digitize and make available the magazines “Monos y Monadas” and “Gestos y Muecas” on Wikimedia Commons.

The gathering targeted the general public and its purpose was to reflect on the nature of published documents in order to collaboratively improve the information about them on Wikimedia Commons.

The program included a panel with researchers and a workshop about Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons. More about the event here.

Acciones y exhibiciones para descolonizar las narrativas de tu museo

For the International Museum Day, Wikimedia Argentina launched the publication it had been working on for a while in collaboration with Fundación TyPA: Acciones y exhibiciones para descolonizar las narrativas de tu museo -- in English, Actions and exhibitions to decolonize your museum's narratives. The material is available on Wikimedia Commons and it covers iniatives from Latin America that best demonstrated the work with decolonization in museums. The material also includes photographs from the initiatives, which are also available on Commons, and articles about the process, including one about museums, Wikimedia, and decolonization: Descolonizar la cultura en clave digital.

Wikimedia Bangladesh

Wikimedia Bangladesh has been organizing Wikimedia activities for International Museum Day since 2023. For 2024, the chapter is focusing on:

Bangla Wikipedia International Museum Day Edit-a-thon 2024

International Museum Day Edit-a-thon 2024 was held on Bangla Wikipedia from the 17th to the 19th of May, encouraging the editing and improvement of Wikipedia articles. The event aimed to create articles on museums in Bangladesh and India and to enrich Wikidata items as well as add relevant images to Wikimedia Commons. This online event was supported by Wikimedia Bangladesh’s regional community Chattogram Wikimedia Community. During this competition, contributors created 24 new articles on Bangla Wikipedia.

Wikimedia CH

Wikimedia CH has been organizing Wikimedia activities for International Museum Day for several years. For 2024, the chapter is focusing on two main activities:

Panel discussion

On May 17, we will have a panel discussion about ‘Wikimedia, Museums, and Education’, including expert speakers from the museum sector. This conversation will be live interpreted into Spanish and French.

  • Speakers:
    • Hanna Steinert, art Historian
    • Emily Hildebrand, art Educator
    • Athina Petsou, educator in museums studies, former embassador Art+Feminism
    • Anika Wilcox, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
    • Jean-Marc Wyss, education Lead WMCH
    • Sandra Becker, moderation, GLAM Lead WMCH

Videos

Throughout the month, Sandra Becker and Jean Marc Wyss from Wikimedia Switzerland will share videos about this year’s theme, Museums for Education and Research. These videos will be very short and subtitled in more languages.

  • The Magic of Museums: Dynamic Centers of Education and Innovation
  • Fascinating World of Museum Education
  • IMD 2024 Museums Important Research Institutions

Wikimedia Colombia

Wikimedia Colombia organized and launched the #TuMuseoEnWikipedia campaign and kit. It was a call to action on X (Twitter) that sought to make the Wikimedia projects visible as essential allies of museums in Colombia, by expanding their coverage on Wikimedia and supporting their transformation towards Open Access.

More details about the Colombian initiative is avilable here.

Wikimedia Community Ireland

On May 15th, Wikimedia Community Ireland organized an event as a call to action to ask its community to collaborate with the International Museum Day and improve knowledge about museums on the Wikimedia projects.

For the event, the chapter asked volunteers to edit or create articles, add sources to pages, as well as visit museums and upload their photos to Wikimedia Commons.

The gathering had interesting metrics, which be seen on this Outreach Dashboard link, and it contributed with 30 files to Wikimedia Commons, added 2.1K words and 14 references, and had 56 articles edited or created on Wikipedia.

More about the event on this page.

Wikimedia Italy

Wikimedia Italy and the Italian community also participated in museum-related activities during May. For two weeks, from May 13 to 26, anyone could take part in the initiative by writing on Wikipedia and creating or improving entries that were dedicated to Italian museums. The page with all the museum articles is available here and volunteers could choose from all the options.

Edit-a-thons

ICOM Italia and Wikimedia Italia organized an edit-a-thon in Milan, hosted by the Martinitt e Stelline Museum. The gathering happened from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm on May 18th. The page with more information about the event is here.

Several images were also uploaded for the campaign, from the Museo Egizio and the Museo Martinitt e Stelline:

Other edit-a-thons were organized throughout May, including with the Pinacoteca in Como, the Ecomuseum at the Valle dei Laghi, and the Natural History Museum of Milan. More about it in Italy's report on This Month in GLAM newsletter.

Wikimedia Österreich

On April 30, as part of the Coordinate Me 2024 (May 1-31, 2024), a Wikidata competition for geo-locatable content, Wikimedia Österreich, the Volunteer Supporters Network, and Silvia Gutiérrez (with support from Giovanna Fontenelle), organized an event called Wikidata para principiantes. The online gathering was in Spanish and covered how to add geolocation data to museum items on Wikidata. Participants were asked to accomplish tasks from the data challenge.

Wikimedia Serbia

Wikimedia Serbia has been organizing Wikimedia activities for International Museum Day in the past and they were focused on the improvement of articles on Serbian Wikipedia and data on Wikidata. For 2024, the chapter is focusing on:

Wikidata Competition

The Wikidata Competition will take place from the 18th to the 26th of May and it will encourage the editing and improvement of Wikidata.

The goal of this activity is to educate both already experienced and new editors of Wikimedia projects on editing Wikidata and increase data on Museums, Museum experts, Objects, and events related to museums. During this competition, Wikidata and SPARQL editing workshop will be held as part of the local Wikilive conference in Belgrade. Link to the local dashboard.

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