Key:museum

museum=* is used for the main topic of the exhibition of a tourism=museum. For several topics consider to use the Semi-colon_value_separator (example history;art, or if technology or science seem too generic).

Common values

Art

• museum=art (see also tourism=gallery)
• museum=gallery (see also tourism=gallery, shop=gallery, shop=art_gallery)

Transport

• museum=transport
• museum=railway
• museum=aviation
• museum=aerospace
• museum=maritime

Science

• museum=science
• museum=apis_mellifera (is criticised as a value for beekeeping, see discussion)
• museum=nature
• museum=technology
• museum=agriculture
• museum=palaeontology (maybe better: museum=nature/evolution and subject=palaeontology)
• museum=evolution

History

• museum=history
• museum=living_history
• museum=military
• museum=war
• museum=archaeological

Other

• museum=open_air
• museum=local
• museum=children
• museum=ethnography
• museum=person
• museum=language
• museum=health

See also

• *:type=* - common way to describe further "subtypes" of a feature,
  an option would be museum:type=* :

• subject=* was also used for museums, but isn't that precise.

• faculty=* similar values, to describe the topics of an amenity=university