Current Museums
Focus |
Museum |
Location |
Details |
Afrikaans
|
Paarl, Western Cape Province, South Africa |
Housed in a historic building, the interactive exhibits are in Afrikaans, English and isiXhosa |
|
Brazilian Portuguese |
The Portuguese Language Museum
|
San Paulo, Brazil |
Interactive, hands-on exhibits that mix art and technology, housed in a historic train station |
Gaelic |
Iona, Nova Scotia, Canada |
A regular program of workshops, lectures, and concerts and an extensive collection of Gaelic books, artifacts, and music |
|
New Norwegian and Dano-Norwegian |
Volda, Sunnmøre, Norway |
Devoted to the creator of New Norwegian, the centre has exhibits on literature and language, hosts cultural events and holds an annual literature festival |
|
Occitan |
Dronero, Valli Occitane, Cuneo, Italy |
Website in Occitan and Italian only |
Planned Museums
Focus |
Museum |
Location |
Details |
All languages |
London, England |
Interactive museum proposed by linguist David Crystal and Museum of London director Jack Loman |
|
All languages, especially North American |
College Park, Maryland, USA (office) |
The organization currently holds exhibitions about language for events and conferences, with plans for a physical museum in the future |
|
All languages |
Aarhus, Denmark |
"A linguistic science centre," the museum will have interactive hands-on exhibitions |
|
All languages |
University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland |
Will have a public virtual reality area with scholarly and artistic exhibits, an open database with information on all languages, and will be a centre for international scholarly research |
|
Chinese languages and writing |
Anyang City, Hunan Province, China |
Already under construction, it will host exhibits on the history and development of Chinese characters, as well as rare Chinese languages |
|
Hungarian
|
Szephalom, Hungary |
Under construction in the hometown of a famous Hungarian revivalist, will have virtual exhibits, historic texts, and a research center |
|
isiZulu and other African languages
|
University of Zululand, Kwa-Dlangezwa, South Africa |
Would preserve the earlist writings in African languages, and organize exhibitions to promote African languages |
|
Nushu (women's Chinese language)
|
Jiangyong County, Hunan Province, China |
To be built in 2007, will house manuscripts, artifacts and audio recordings, in order to preserve the Nushu language and culture |
