museums

This is a (fantastic!) project by Simon Willison, co-creator of the Django framework and creator of Datasette. If you are wondering why the collection is so small, it would appear from the commit history that Simon only adds museums that he has visited himself. https://github.com/simonw/museums/commits/main

It might be possible to submit one through the website's GitHub: https://github.com/simonw/museums No idea how receive the author is to pull requests, though.

I've been using my Datasette tool, originally intended for exploring databases, to build full-blown websites and it's working surprisingly well. It supports Jinja templates and runs on SQLite databases so it's actually a good fit for semi-static sites. Here's what Datasette looks like by default: - https://latest.datasette.io And here are three websites that are actually just Datasette with some custom templates and plugins: - https://datasette.io (data: https://datasette.io/content code: https://github.com/simonw/datasette.io ) - https://til.simonwillison.net (data: https://til.simonwillison.net/tils code: https://github.com/simonw/til ) - https://www.niche-museums.com (data: https://www.niche-museums.com/browse code: https://github.com/simonw/museums ) They're all hosted on either Vercel or Google Cloud Run at the cost of no more than a

The site already existed, but they wanted to serve it statically to save on complexity and money. If you dig into the repo you'll see that it's maintained using a YAML file, which is a smart way to deal with small sites that still contain structured content. I do the same thing for my https://github.com/simonw/museums site.

I've been experimenting recently with YAML for this kind of thing, and it's working out really well for me so far. I have a tool called yaml-to-sqlite ( https://github.com/simonw/yaml-to-sqlite ) which converts a YAML file into a SQLite database, which I can then use with Datasette ( https://github.com/simonw/datasette ) My biggest project with it so far has been my site https://www.niche-museums.com/ - a guide to small and niche museums. The museums themselves live in a single ~100KB YAML file in GitHub: https://github.com/simonw/museums/blob/master/museums.yaml I have a CI script which builds that YAML file into a SQLite database and deploys it + Datasette + custom templates to https://www.niche-museums.com/ I've been running the site like this for a few months now and I really like it. I love having my content in source control, I find

A map is on the todo list: https://github.com/simonw/museums/issues/13 For the moment there's an undocumented map you can view here (using my datasette-cluster-map plugin) https://www.niche-museums.com/browse/museums