Talk:Art museum

message: "In the late 20th century the dry old-fashioned view of art galleries was increasingly replaced with architecturally bold modern art galleries, often seen as international destinations for tourists."
This is not neutral objective language.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.233.42.65 (talk) 17:53, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Not NPOV?

message: See WP:SPAM:  The section on commercial galleries seems counter to spam guidelines.  Wikipedia is not for advertising/promoting certain sites.  If a particular art gallery is notable, it could have its own Wikipedia article; in which case, it might be appropriate to add the article to a "See also" section.  
I'm going to leave this note here for feedback. — ERcheck (talk) 04:37, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Take a look at what I just did - eliminating an area that looked like a link-farm, moving relevant "keepers" (like the French government site for access to a wide range of French museum collections) elsewhere, and changing the text of the seciton on "Independent on-line galleries", which now cites just four sites (Sotheby's, Christies, Artprice.com, and Bridgeman's), each of which are separately notable (though Artprice doesn't now have its own page).  I'd weed heavily beyond these.  Sam 15:47, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commercial links 

message: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/museums/art-museums-in-the-uk.html
133 UK Art Museums are listed here - []
A list of London Galleries - http://www.london-galleries.co.uk/  
There are also art musuems in UK country houses such as Compton Verney [], The Rothschild Collection at Waddeston Manor  [] and Chatsworth House [] to name but a few.
There are believed to be over 500 Art Galleries of various types in the UK [] and London alone is home to over 200 musuems. []
NB. Many European Galleries such as the Louvre in Paris contain more historic paintings than many entire national collections.
--90.211.214.116 (talk) 14:44, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: List of UK Art Galleries

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message: Building on a question which has been raised in the section "Art Gallery Redirect", I think it is necessary to start a page dedicated to Gallery as a specific place to show works of art. This has to tie in with the gallery as a building type and other things, and is therefore quite complex. Maybe someone has the courage and stamina of starting this. 
"Gallery" and "Museum" have, however, historically been used nearly interchangeably for collections, and still are with a multitude of National Galleries and National Museums - gallery generally pointing more towards art while museum can refer to any type of collection. 
Some historic examples to start with might be the "Museo Cartaceo" of Cassiano dal Pozzo and the "Galleria Palatina" in the Palazzo Pitti. 
Gerbis (talk) 14:56, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure your changes are very helpful. I think we are stuck with dealing with commercial galleries and art museums on the same page, as the words are so interchangable.  "Gallery (art)" as an architectural article might be of interest, though that space is already rather full. Johnbod (talk) 16:18, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gallery 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Contemporary art gallery which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 22:48, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

message: There is discussion in past years regarding making a clear distinction between a museum that holds artworks in public trust and a commercial gallery that is in the business of selling art. The resolution of this discussion has been difficult because of the word "gallery" -  any place that displays art, is used for both entities even though everyone recognizes they are distinct topics. The past solution has been to have "Art gallery" redirect to "Art museum", have "Commercial gallery" redirect to "Art dealer", and have "Contemporary art gallery" as the only article on galleries selling art.
I was editing Art world when I encountered this problem. In the subculture identified as the art world there is no confusion; everyone knows that an art gallery sells art (not necessarily contemporary art), and an art museum holds "masterpieces" that preserve visual culture for the world. Everyone knows that the National Gallery of Art in DC is a museum, and describes itself as such. The Wikipedia problem is to try to determine what a worldwide audience would use as a search term to find these entities, and how to disambiguate them.
A discussion of my proposed to move "Contemporary art gallery" to "Art gallery" has resulted in a consensus to keep the "Contemporary" article but change Art gallery to an article on the general topic with a hatnote pointing to Art museum. To complete this solution I have place a hatnote and edited the lead to clarify topic definitions here.
--WriterArtistDC (talk) 22:58, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarifying gallery vs museum