Should address be removed from this type? I've noticed that this information is often duplicated as museums are normally buildings which have their addressed specified in another field.
Address?
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Museum might want to include /architecture/structure as an included type, and a property on structure is mailing address.
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Perhaps 'Museum' should be moved out of the Architecture domain altogether though - as it's more of a concept than anything else. And you do get museums which aren't physical buildings (eg a museum within a bigger building, or an outdoor garden museum), which span multiple buildings in separate locations (very common) or even museums at all (eg virtual museums, or museums which don't have a physical presence yet).
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'Venues' are perhaps more appropriate. One museum or family of museums can have multiple venues.
Often people conflate the venue and the governing body (which would also include collections not on display, non-venue/exhibition staff, etc). -
I'd suggest that the governing body, the 'museum' and the 'venues' are all different types.
Take where I work, for example. The legal entity is called 'National Museum of Science and Industry' (NMSI) - but that's not actually a museum in the sense that anyone would understand it.
Then there are the 'museums' owned by NMSI: The Science Museum, National Media Museum, National Railway Museum. These are the museums as people understand them.
Then there are the venues. So for instance the Science Museum has its main venue on Exhibition Road, plus another venue in Swindon (which is called 'Science Museum Swindon', although the name changes fairly frequently), plus another venue called 'Blythe House', which is only accessible by appointment, and is actually shared with some other museums.
I don't think this kind of complexity is all that uncommon either - 'National Museums Liverpool' is actually half a dozen museums, as is the National Museum Wales.
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