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McDonald's #1 Store Museum

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McDonald's #1 Store Museum

Summary

McDonald's #1 Store Museum is a museum[1]. It ranks in the top 0.58% of museum entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (174 views/month, #20 of 3,430).[2]

Key Facts

  • McDonald's #1 Store Museum is located in Des Plaines[3].
  • McDonald's #1 Store Museum is in the country of United States[4].
  • McDonald's #1 Store Museum's instance of is recorded as museum[5].
  • McDonald's #1 Store Museum's instance of is recorded as destroyed building or structure[6].
  • McDonald's #1 Store Museum's Commons category is recorded as McDonald's museums[7].
  • April 15, 1954 marks the founding of McDonald's #1 Store Museum[8].
  • McDonald's #1 Store Museum's coordinate location is recorded as {'latitude': 42.046083333333, 'longitude': -87.886138888889}[9].
  • McDonald's #1 Store Museum's official website is recorded as http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/our_company/museums/first_store_museum.html[10].
  • McDonald's #1 Store Museum's date of official opening is recorded as 1955[11].

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Founding

April 15, 1954 marks the founding of McDonald's #1 Store Museum[8].

Why It Matters

McDonald's #1 Store Museum ranks in the top 0.58% of museum entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (174 views/month, #20 of 3,430).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1954-04-15T00:00:00Z
    Openstreetmap way id → 1263006046
    Located in → —
    Instance of → museum, destroyed building or structure
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P10689]]: 1263006046, Adding OSM way id claim from wikidata tag on way/1263006046 in United States"
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