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Britain Loves Wikipedia is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest running in museums and cultural institutions across the UK through February. The aim is to increase the number of pictures available to illustrate Wikipedia articles, and to inspire new articles.

The event ran for the whole month of February 2010. The deadline for submitting your photographs is midnight UTC at the end of 14 March 2010!

Britain Loves Wikipedia has been organized by Wikimedia UK, in collaboration with the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, Collections Trust, Culture 24 and Museums Galleries Scotland.

Britain Loves Wikipedia is taking place at the following museums and archives:

South England

• Bedford Museum
• The British Postal Museum & Archive’s Museum Store, Debden, Essex
  (Opening specially on 20 February 2010 only)
• Horniman Museum, Forest Hill, London
• Mill Green Museum
• Museum of Army Flying, Stockbridge, Hampshire
• Old Operating Theatre
• Royal Air Force Museum, London and Cosford
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London

North England

• Astley Hall
• Manchester Museum
• National Football Museum, Preston
• Nottingham Natural History Museum
• Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths and Museum, Tyne & Wear
• Working Class Movement Library, Salford

Wales

• Ceredigion Museum, Wales

Scotland

• Caithness Horizons, Thurso
• Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow (Special event on 17 February)
• Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum and John Muir's Birthplace, East Lothian
  (Opening specially on 14 February 2010 only)

The first step is to visit a participating museum at any time throughout February, or go to one of the special events (see below) with your camera. Let the museum reception know that you are participating in this event, then start photographing eligible items! You should not photograph objects covered by copyright or moral restrictions, and some museums may place extra restrictions on where you can take photographs; see the museum descriptions for more information. A leaflet covering these restrictions may be available from the museum.

Can you find objects that fit in with these themes?

You should always take two photos - one of the object, and one of the object's label. To enter your photographs into the competition, click the Upload here link below!

Want to get the best photographs possible? Wikiversity has advice for how to take good photographs in museums.

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