GLAM/Archivi
Al Jazeera
Arab TV news station Al Jazeera agreed to re-license video footage, previously released under a Creative Commons license with non-commercial or non-derivative restrictions. These videos, which show clashes between police and protesters on Cairo’s 6th October Bridge in January 2011, were re-licensed under the freer CC-BY-SA license, allowing them to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.
Archives of American Art
The Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art developed a Wikipedian-in-Residence program with a focus to improve content on Wikipedia related to American art history, donate images to Wikimedia Commons, and to develop relationships with Wikimedian volunteers through online and in-person events and activities.
British Library
Wikimedia UK and the British Library’s Digital Research & Curator team organized multiple "Editathon" events at the British Library to engage Wikipedians who were guided by the expertise of British Library curators to improve content on Wikipedia relevant to the British Library’s collections.
British Museum
The British Museum has developed multiple partnerships with the UK Wikimedia Chapter including the Backstage Pass tour, the "Hoxne Challenge" and the Featured Article Prize. The British Museum also served as the first GLAM to host a Wikipedian In Residence.
Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum developed Wikipedia articles on the under-represented topic of female pop art artists to tie in with an upcoming exhibition.
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis has an ongoing Wikipedian-in-Residence program that pilots a variety of GLAM projects, including image donations to Wikimedia Commons, work with middle and high school students in the Museum Apprentice Program, and processes for contributing institutional expertise to Wikipedia. See the Children’s Museum's case studies and success story for more information.
Derby Museum
The Derby Museum in England was the first GLAM to work with Wikimedia to install QR codes allowing visitors to access Wikipedia articles from their smart phones related to the exhibitions. Wikimedians also worked with the museum to create "The Wright Challenge" which has produced over 1200 articles in 28 languages about content within the museum.
German Federal Archives
From autumn 2007 to December 2008, the German Federal Archives (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) partnering with the Wikimedia Germany uploaded 100,000 images to the Commons.
Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
The partnership with Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry in England is the first ongoing Wikimedia collaboration in the UK outside of London. There have been a number of different sub-projects as part of the collaboration including image donations, a backstage pass and an editathon.
Indianapolis Museum of Art
While GLAM was being created, conservation interns and volunteers created articles for all of outdoor artworks at the IMA using resources from WikiProject Public Art.
Likewise, using resources from the conservation department and IUPUI, in November 2010 the Indianapolis Museum of Art unveiled an E-Volunteer program that provides guides for interested volunteers to learn how to contribute information about IMA artworks to Wikipedia. Currently, IMA e-volunteers and conservation interns are creating articles for the 100 most important artworks at the IMA and related conservation and restoration projects.
From February to April 2011, the IMA carried out a project to revamp the institution’s Wikipedia article in a way that followed all Wikipedia policies and avoided conflict of interest issues.
Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
Prior to the creation of GLAM, WikiProject Public Art was created in 2009 by IUPUI faculty and staff as part of the collection care and management course for IUPUI’s museum studies program. The first class proceeded to locate, survey and document all of the public art on IUPUI’s campus and documented it in its entirety on Wikipedia, totaling 40 new articles and over 350 images.
The second class in 2010 utilized WikiProject Public Art to document the public art collection of the Indiana Statehouse. The class produced 37 articles about 42 artworks and over 270 images. In 2011 the State of Indiana recognized this work by awarding the class Concurrent Resolutions.
ITESM-Ciudad de México
On 20 August 2011, twelve students from Instituto Tecnológico y Estudios Superiores de Monterrey - Campus Ciudad de México participated via the web in one of the edit-a-thons of the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Connected through Skype to the Museum, the students worked on translating articles about key pieces of the Museum's collection into Spanish.
Milwaukee Arts Board
The Milwaukee Arts Board, in collaboration with WikiProject Public Art students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design undertook a project to create a comprehensive listing of the city’s public sculpture and creating 63 articles.
Museo del Objeto del Objeto
The del Objeto del Objeto (Object of the Object Museum) is a first museum in Mexico City exclusively dedicated to design and communications, based on a collection of gadgets, packaging and advertising belonging to Bruno Newman. It donated images from the collection.
Museo de Arte Popular
The Museo de Arte Popular, in Mexico City, donated photographs related to Mexican handcrafts and folk art including those of the en:Vochol which was created for fundraising purposes.
National Library of Australia
The national reference library of Australia donated some resources.
National Library of France
Wikimedia France signed an agreement with the Bibliothèque nationale de France to provide the French Wikisource with 1400 public domain texts that had been prepared for the library’s Gallica web resource.
Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Institution Archives developed a Wikipedian in Residence program to focus on improving content about subjects held in the archives and Smithsonian history, and to strengthen relationships with the Wikipedia community and build staff awareness.
Sweden Regional Archives
The Regional Archives of Sweden have donated various resources for use with Wikipedia.
Tropenmuseum
Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, in working with the Dutch Wikimedia Chapter, has donated 2000 images from Suriname and 100,000 media files from Indonesia to Commons.
Wikimedia Australia Conference
The "Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums & Wikimedia: Finding the common ground" conference organized at the Australian War Memorial in August 2009 engaged key stakeholders from Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) across Australia and New Zealand as well as representatives of government, cultural funding organizations and peak representative bodies to establish a two-way dialogue to determine how to use the two communities’ strengths to a mutual advantage.
WikiXDC
WikiXDC was a one-day symposium held at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration main building in January 2011. The event was part of Wikipedia 10th anniversary celebrations, while also serving as a kick-off for Wikimedia-NARA GLAM collaborations. Most of the day consisted of presentations and lightning talks, by NARA staff and Wikimedians, allowing both to learn and understand more about one-another.