Template talk:Museums in Minnesota

message: I pulled this together from :Category:Museums in Minnesota.  Please feel free to add new museums I missed, and also feel free to remove places that are not museums, but were erronisously listed in :Category:Museums in Minnesota.  I hope you enjoy.  TableManners U·T·C 06:16, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks really good TableManners!  The only place I can think of adding that isn't there already is Glensheen Historic Estate in Duluth, which runs tours and is set up as a "museum" of sorts owned by UMD.  Maybe a stretch, one man's opinion here.  Keeper  |  76 15:46, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Creation and invitation

message: Part of the following was copied from here
Please take a look at   navigation bar, and enhance as necessary.  If it seems to complicated, but you have a suggestion, leave a message  (talk) and I or somebody else will try to improve it.  TableMannersU·T·C 15:40, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking at both the template and the List of museums in Minnesota, I'm wondering what constitutes a museum.  Many of the List of Registered Historic Places in Minnesota are museums, defined as "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education, enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment." Anyway, I suggest added a link to the List of Registered Historic Places in Minnesota in the template, and then deleting any specific entries that are on that list (to avoid duplication and potential massive growth of the template).--Appraiser (talk) 15:50, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I'll have to get to that later.  Good point.  TableMannersU·T·C 15:52, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Many of them are, but a lot of them aren't.  For example, you can still buy gas at R.W. Lindholm Service Station.  Fasbender Clinic doesn't treat diseases any more, but you can get your finances checked out at the Edward Jones office there.  And, if you walked into the John G. and Minnie Gluek House and Carriage House and asked for a tour, I think the residents there would politely ask you to leave.  I'm also wondering if we should include every museum in Minnesota in the template.  Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Science Museum of Minnesota are big, well-known museums, while the John Dwan Office Building (the 3M Museum in Two Harbors) is a small building with a few rooms of exhibits.  I'd suggest putting the larger museums in the template, but keeping all the museums in the category and the list.  --Elkman (Elkspeak) 16:01, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, let's work on which we will remove, and which we should add.  Also, we should probably come up with criteria for keeping a museum out, and also a reason (e.g., the template is too unwieldly) for doing so.  The first criteria I used was "does it have an article on wikipedia?"  I think this is a fairly objective and straightward criterion.  I have started a scorecard at:  Template:Museums in Minnesota/scorecard     TableMannersU·T·C 03:24, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improvments 

message: I have updated the scorecard, and would like to dispute the removal of John Dwan Office Building on the grounds that it is notable enough to have an article on wikipedia, and according to that article, it is a museum.  TableMannersU·T·C 03:43, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Dwan Office Building 

message: What is the sequence used for the entries?  It's hard to check if something is in the lists when they're in random order.  -- SEWilco (talk) 04:40, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good question.  What order do you want them?  I can go try to do alphabetical.  TableMannersU·T·C 04:44, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sequence 

message: The following is a partial list of WP articles on the List of Registered Historic Places in Minnesota that are also "museums". We could 1.)add them all, 2.)add a link to List of Registered Historic Places in Minnesota, or 3)add the "most significant" ones.
#American Swedish Institute
#Minnehaha Grange Hall
#Cahill School
#Charles H. Burwell House
#Riley Lucas Bartholomew House
#Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Depot
#Schech Mill
#Grand Army of the Republic Hall (Litchfield, Minnesota)
#Charles A. Lindbergh State Park
#Eugene Saint Julien Cox House
#Alexander Ramsey House
#James J. Hill House
#Alexander Faribault House
#Oliver H. Kelley Homestead
#Glensheen Historic Estate
#Fort Snelling, Minnesota
#John Dwan Office Building
Others that don't have their own articles include the Henry Hastings Sibley House and the Faribault House (in Mendota).--Appraiser (talk) 19:39, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: List of Registered Historical Sites in Minnesota that are also museums