Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art

Wikipedia Loves Art is a type of month-long photo scavenger hunt and free content photography contest conducted in collaboration with partner museums and cultural institutions, where participants compete to take photographs aimed at best illustrating Wikipedia articles.

Events

• Wiki Loves Art - July-August 2016 in Belgium

Past events

• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Loves Art/US-UK (the original project) — February 2009 in the US and UK
• Wiki Loves Art NL — June 2009 in the Netherlands
• Wikipedia invade el Museo de La Plata — May 2009 in Argentina
• Wikipedia invade el Museo de Cádiz — November 2009 in Spain
• Elef Millim project Wikipedia Loves Art: Israeli National Maritime Museum — January 2010 in Israel
• Britain Loves Wikipedia — February 2010 in the UK
• Wiki Loves Monuments — September 2010 in the Netherlands, since 2011 in Europe and since 2012 worldwide
• Wiki Loves Art en el Norte — August 2010 in Spain

Ideas for events

• Wikipedia:WikiProject India/India Loves Wikipedia
• WikiProject:Wiki Loves Art (2023)

Museums that allow photography

There are usually some restrictions, and it would be worthy of note to indicate when there is none. Almost universal restrictions are no tripods, no flash. Photography is usually not allowed in special exhibitions with loaned objects.

Allowed

Europe

• Louvre - allowed except at two galleries.
• Vatican - allowed except Sistine Chapel
• Neue Pinakothek, Munich
• Deutsches Museum, Munich
• National Gallery, Prague

USA

• Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• MoMA, New York
• Museum of Arts & Design, New York
• New Museum (only the current Free exhibition), New York
• Rubin Museum of Art, New York
• National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
• Smithsonian Museums (most of them), Washington DC
• Museum of Fine Art, Boston

Canada

• Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
• Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria

Banned

Europe

• Galleria Borghese (Rome)
• Uffizi (Florence)
• Galleria (Florence)

USA

• Portland Art Museum
• Guggenheim Museum, New York
• International Center of Photography, New York
• Neue Galerie, New York
• The Frick Collection, New York
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Canada

• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

World-wide list: [1]

See also

• Wikipedia:Academy
• Wikipedia:Wikipedia Takes Your City