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{{Infobox museum
| name             = 
| native_name      = 
| native_name_lang = 
| image            = 
| imagesize        = 200
| caption          = 
| alt              = 
| map_type         = 
| map_caption      = 
| map_alt          = 
| map_size         =
| latitude         = 
| longitude        = 
| coordinates_type = 
| coordinates_region = 
| coordinates_display = 
| coordinates_format = 
| coordinates      = 
| established      = 
| dissolved        = 
| location         = 
| type             = 
| collection       = 
| visitors         = 
| director         = 
| president        = 
| curator          = 
| owner            =
| publictransit    = 
| car_park         = 
| network          = 
| website          = 
}}

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 {{Location map}} Example: Alabama
map_caption
Caption given to map if latitude and longitude are used.
Example: FooTown
map_alt
Alt text for map.
map_size
Specify a pixel width for the map (default=250)
map_relief
Set this to y or any non-blank value to use a relief map provided by the selected location map template (if a relief map is availabe).
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.
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|USA]]
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]]
collection
Collection size - amount of objects
visitors
Number of visitors.
Example: 417,096 (2005)
director
The museum's director.
Example: [[Harold Saxon]]
president
Alternative to "director" above
curator
The 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)
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}}

The HTML mark up produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the place-name and location parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue article 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.

If the place or venue has an "established", "founded", "opened" or similar date, use {{Start date}} (unless the date is before 1583 CE).

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

hCard uses HTML classes including:

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

When giving coordinates, please don't be overly precise.