International Museum Day

International Museum Day 2022 The Power of Museums

The power of innovating on digitalisation and accessibility: Museums have become innovative playing-grounds where new technologies can be developed and applied to everyday life. Digital innovation can make museums more accessible and engaging, helping audiences understand complex and nuanced concepts.

The International Museum Day (IMD) on 18 May is an event organized by the International Council of Museums since 1977 to raise awareness that “museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.” ICOM

Culture knows no borders This is the first year that Wikimedia Community Malta will be organising and take part in the International Museum Day. For several years, the event has been an occasion for Wikipedians to improve the presence of museums on Wikipedia, Wikidata and further Wikimedia projects. This day event will help to improve the data about museums and related people. The overall project is coordinated by Wikimedia CH (WMCH) in association with Wikimedia Österreich (WMAT) and with direct support by Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE) and the Volunteer Supporters Network (VSN).Wikimedia IMD

Event

-Location to be announced Presentation by Enrique Tabone about Connecting data on Wikidata Wikipedia editing workshops How to contribute and improve wikidata

Program & Events Dashboard to track the contributions will be created closer to the event.

Tasks

Edit the Heritage Malta Wikipedia article and translate on the Maltese Wikipedia Heritage Malta Fix and update Heritage Malta Wiki data Q3785211

List of all Museums run by Heritage Malta Create/Edit Wikipedia articles of all Museums and translate them to Maltese. Create/Update Wikidata of all Museums and include coordinates for mapping.

Released high-resolution images on WikiCommons and information under a free license

Outcomes

Visualise and Map Data Putting Malta on the Museums Map