Hi!

The National Museum in Warsaw is currently beginning a new project with its Wikipedian-in-Residence, centered around the Faras Gallery, the archaeological discoveries at Faras, Nubian culture and related themes: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiprojekt:GLAM/Muzeum_Narodowe_w_Warszawie/Faras/English

(Main Commons category for the NMW with artworks from across its collections can be found here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_the_National_Museum_in_Warsaw)

Over the next 5 months, a group of volunteer Wikipedians and new volunteer editors (most of whom study or work in archaeology, art history and related fields) will work on a set of articles; the Museum, and the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) are in the process of uploading the Faras images to Commons (images of artwork/documentation photos of the excavations/other related images) - to illustrate the articles. Meanwhile, the volunteers have already put together an impressive bibliography for the new articles, largely in English.

We would like to invite volunteers from your communities to participate in this project! We are looking for interested Wikipedians to help verify, translate or contribute to articles in other languages, as well as make suggestions regarding the selection of articles. The initial list of articles to expand or create can be found here: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiprojekt:GLAM/Muzeum_Narodowe_w_Warszawie/Faras/English#Initial_list_of_articles_to_be_written_or_expanded

The Faras image categories: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Polish_excavations_at_Faras (the initial batch, some images to be replaced by higher-res versions); https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Faras_Gallery_of_the_National_Museum_in_Warsaw

We will also be contacting the National Museum in Khartoum, where "the other half" of artworks found at Faras are located.

Anyone interested is invited to participate! Please also forward to any potentially interested existing GLAM contacts. All questions are welcome :-)

Thanks!

Marta Malina