museological
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- adjective
- /ˌmjuːziəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
- Specialized
- During our tour, the curator explained the museological principles behind the arrangement of the historical artifacts.
- museological practices
- museological and curatorial
Examples
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The museum's new exhibit showcases innovative museological practices that engage visitors more interactively.
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Using our curiosity and our links with society at large, our museological experiments make use of the remains of the past (both our collections and their history) to think about the present and to tackle problems that relate to the daily life of almost everyone.
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This lack of labels appeared to go against any accepted museological principles concerning the educational purposes of museums.
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Following the Allied victories in World War II, museological interest in American Indian arts subsided.
Academic text (1994) -
Rickard, like Webster and others, has been engaged in discussions about the museological representation of Native people for her entire professional life.
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In broad strokes, these circumstances helped define the parameters of canonical, collectible art, as well as the museological practices that developed to support it.
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Such expectation indicates a museological practice that necessarily exalts one's fellow humans and suggests territorialization as the museum's methodological and political strategy.
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Both of these facts dictate a reading of Bushman identity that is very different from the older museological approaches that Skotnes seeks to critique.
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Zanini's 1973 proposals for the museum, especially in promoting multimedia artistic practices and new technologies, mainly video art, affirm his critical and museological preference.
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Presentations, whether academic or museological, on African lost-wax casting tend to deal with "bronzes" and gold, both "noble" materials, and tend to overlook aluminum.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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Relating to choosing, caring for, and arranging items in a museum or gallery
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word museological comes from museum, which originally meant 'place of the Muses'—the inspirational figures for art and learning, and the ending -logy means 'study'. So museological refers to the study of museums or to things about how museums work, such as caring for and showing objects.