Cultural partnerships/Joint events

Cultural partnerships
Content partnerships — Digital image restorations — Joint events

Wikimedians as a rule are very interested in knowledge, at a level that can go beyond what is available to see in museum displays. Wikimedians also frequently have specific interests in certain objects, which may not be commonly on display, that they have been researching and writing Wikipedia articles about.

Tours, either within the institutions or behind the scenes, are a great way to engage wikimedians in the contents of your collections, and a useful way to give them knowledge about items that can then be spread online via Wikipedia articles and freely reusable images. This is especially true if a large part of your collection is not commonly publicly displayed.

Wikimedia UK would be delighted to work with cultural institutions to put together and advertise tours of museums for wikimedians. If you would be interested in hosting such a tour, please contact Michael Peel by email at michael.peelwikimedia.org.uk or by telephone at +44 (0)7988 013 646.