Talk:Tag:museum=open air

How to tag the topic of an open air museum?

Let’s say there’s an open air museum that displays boats, anchors, etc. How should I tag it? “museum=open_air;maritime”? Feels a bit messy and makes me wonder whether open_air really makes sense as a value for the museum tag.

The other museum values all relate to the focus/subject/topic of the museum, but open_air doesn’t seem to fit that pattern. ArcticRocinante (talk) 23:25, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Possibly as

• subject=maritime + museum=open_air; or
• museum=maritime + outdoor=yes. Something B (talk) 00:24, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

  While the direction of subject=* , using it for the categories found in museum=* now makes it unable to be used for the exact entity. Eg  Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum how to distribute *=maritime , *=shipwreck ) , *=Graveyard of the Great Lakes / *=Whitefish Point / *=Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve ?
  artwork_subject=* is an awkward workaround from history. Dedicated war_memorial=* was suggested to remove memorial=war_memorial as a piecemeal solution, with memorial:type=* declared "deprecated".
  For this content specifically, much of *=maritime should be eg *=naval . And difference with museum=military for that??? Assuming museum=war is for specific conflicts.
  2 particular aspects are attempted in Proposal:Subject#Examples

• memorial=sculpture
  • memorial:subject=* : what it is remembering. (cf a hundred dedicated_to=* in polytheism; a few commemorates=* in natural=tree )
  • artwork:subject=* : what's depicted in the piece of work (together with, or symbolizing what it is remembering)
• The subcategory museum:subject=modern art;contemporary art is demonstrated as freeform text (instead of finite predefined val for museum=art )

outdoor=yes has some problems for combination and exact use.

• indoor=yes is used as an attribute, when other indoor=* eg indoor=area are features.
• If the exhibit=* has covered=* , is it outdoor=* ?

—— Kovposch (talk) 05:15, 7 December 2023 (UTC)

The treatment has been discussed before.

• Talk:Tag:tourism=museum#On_subtypes_and_topics_/_museum_subjects
• Talk:Key:museum type#Not very clear

Quite the opposite, I find museum=open_air suitable for the likes of museum=* . Others should be moved towards the likes of subject=* .
museum=local is something else. On top of museum_type=* being used for the management needlessly, it can have the geographical scope and level of collection (think: national collection on the topic of a person vs personal collection of a universal topic) distinguished.
—— Kovposch (talk) 05:05, 7 December 2023 (UTC)