Talk:Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe

Money

I'd like to see an additional section on how this was paid for - if anyone knows...--Amedeo Felix (talk) 12:37, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

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The Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe is a science museum in Valencia, Spain. It is part of the City of Arts and Sciences architectural complex. The building is over 40,000 square metres (430,000 sq ft), has a height of 55 metres (180 ft), and was designed to resemble the skeleton of a whale, with a facade designed by Santiago Calatrava. Construction started around 1994, and the building was inaugurated in 2000, following an investment of 26 billion pesetas. This photograph shows the exterior of the museum, as seen from the southeast.

Photograph credit: Diego Delso

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Value of peseta

Wikipedia articles usually interpret national currencies is US dollars. This doesn’t interpret 26 million pesetas. It should. Using data from the peseta link, I get $130,000US. See last paragraph in "History". Wis2fan (talk) 03:55, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

I would suggest euros: 26 billion (not million) pesetas is €156,263,120, so round to €156m. jnestorius^(talk) 18:27, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

Name

It seems the article title is half-Valencian (Museu de les Ciències), half-Castilian (Príncipe Felipe). Is that the official name? Is it a political compromise? Is it ad-hoc, or one instance of a general trend in official naming in Spanish regions? jnestorius^(talk) 18:24, 19 March 2024 (UTC)

The museum's website seems to use all-Spanish for its name in Spanish-language pages, and all-Valencian in Valencian- and English-language pages; and judging from its press releases, to have dropped Felipe from its name some time around 2019 (Felipe changed from Prince to King on 2014). Tl;dr the current article title violates WP:TITLE. jnestorius^(talk) 19:25, 20 March 2024 (UTC)