Fashion Museum Antwerp

The Fashion Museum Antwerp (MoMu) is a provincial museum in the city Antwerp with a focus on fashion and has organised various activities together with Wikipedia/Wikimedia. This page documents the collaboration we have with the museum.

Purpose

The purpose of the project is to import the donated images from the Fashion Museum Antwerp to Wikimedia Commons, and the data of the works on Wikidata. Further also articles about remarkable artworks are written in Wikipedia.

History and background

The collaboration with the Fashion Museum Antwerp was one of the first partnerships we had as Wikimedia Belgium, even before Wikimedia Belgium was founded.

Since

Contacts

Romaine

Partners

Website museum

Projects & activities

Edit-a-thon
- Europeana Fashion project, 23 September 2013
Image donations
- Some photos from the collection, March 2013
- Thesaurus drawings, November-December 2014

Timeline

March 2013 - Image donation of 33 images (photos)
23 September 2013 - Fashion edit-a-thon, Antwerp, organized together with Fashion Museum Antwerp and image donation to Commons of museum (project | photos)
November-December 2014 - Image donation (photos | project)
21 November 2014 - Meeting to solve issues with image donation by Fashion Museum Antwerp (images) (Romaine)
27 November 2014 - Short meeting at Fashion Museum Antwerp (Romaine)
25 February 2015 - Presentation concerning the role of CC licenses during the Europeana Fashion, International Conference, Workshop 'Handling Intellectual Property in Fashion Images', MoMu, Antwerp (website ^(archived)) (Ste.caneva)
7 April 2017 - Meeting with MoMu in Antwerp (Romaine)

12 October 2017 - The fashion thesaurus project has finished

1 January 2018 - The Fashion Museum Antwerp is no longer a provincial museum but is now part of De Museumstichting, together with FOMU Photo Museum and DIVA. (website | nieuwsbericht ^(archived))

February 2018-2020 - Fashion Museum Antwerp closed for renovation, temporary offices at Kaasstraat (news ^(archived))

Statistics

Uploads

March-May 2013 - 33 images of dresses and lace (u)
- 11 May 2013 - 9 images ((internal) permission)
- 8-10 May 2013 - 16 images ((internal) permission)
- 15 March 2013 - 8 images ((internal) permission)
15-16 December 2014 - 242 drawings from David Ring with GWToolset ((internal) permission | u)
4-24 February 2016 - 230 drawings from David Ring ((internal) permission | u)
22-28 April 2016 - 24 images from Stany Dederen ((internal) permission | u)
13 February 2017 - 3 drawings from David Ring ((internal) permission | u)
21 February 2017 - 80 drawings from David Ring ((internal) permission | u)
April-May 2017 - 557 images of lace, costume parts, ornaments and more (u)
February 2018 - 103 images of pieces of clothing (u)