Key:museum_type

This key was not documented, but it seems to be used together with tourism=museum to specify the type of museum with regard to the operator, scope and level.

This tag is not used frequently, the established tag operator:type=* has double the use (in combination with tourism=museum as of 2/2022), and should probably be preferred for values which represent the operator type such as private or public. The values for the scope/level like national (which are the most commonly used according to taginfo) are still only covered by this key.

According to the most popular values it seems that this tag was prevalently used to document the type of entity running the museum.

See also subject=* and museum=* for the type of museum with regard to the exhibits.

Common Values

• museum_type=municipal a municipal museum
• museum_type=departmental
• museum_type=republican (maybe similar to "national"?)
• museum_type=national a national museum (typically run by the country)
• museum_type=private a private museum
• museum_type=public a public museum (should be refined and state the hierarchical level of public administration, like national, municipal, etc.)
• museum_type=institutional a museum run by an institution
• museum_type=regional a museum run by the region or with regional scope
• museum_type=provincial a museum run by the province

See also

• museum=* mostly used for the subject of the museum (history, art, local, railway, etc.)

• subject=*
• operator:type=*