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musealist

musealist noun: a person who creates and manages museum exhibits; a curator who works for a museum.

Noun

musealist (plural musealists)

  1. (rare) A person who creates and manages museum exhibits; a curator who works for a museum.
    • Principal researches: mostly the history of the Croatio-Slavonic »Vojna krajina« in the 19ᵗʰ century, cultural history of the Croatian nation (as a musealist), and since 1970 the history of Burgenland Croats (in 1970 he organized a circulating exhibition in Croatia on Burgenland Croats which...1976, Actual Questions of the Slovene and Croat Minorities in Austria, page 75
    • The 1910 Japanese exhibition was not so bound by polite musealists.1982, The Contemporary Review, page 23

Examples of musealist in a sentence

  • It is not situated in a museum, it is not set out "musealy", it was not "worked out" by musealists, it hasn't got a legend, etc.1997, Želimir Laszlo, “Is Museology a Part of the Science of Information?”, in Zbyněk Z[byslav] Stránský, editor, Museology for Tomorrow’s...
  • Analyzing the development of research of methodological and scientific concepts, we show the relevance of this^([sic]) problems, among Chinese musealists, historians and designers.2019, Liza A. Markina, “The Modern Methodological and Scientific Concepts of Exhibition Planning on the Example of the Museums of a...
  • While the latter derive their moral criteria from birth, environmentalists and musealists derive them from choice.2020, Ingo Niermann, “Wet Gods”, in Solution 295-304: Mare Amoris, Sternberg Press, →ISBN, pages 94–95:

Forms of musealist

pluralmusealists

Origin of musealist

From museal + -ist.

Questions about musealist

What does musealist mean?
Musealist means a person who creates and manages museum exhibits; a curator who works for a museum.
How do you use musealist in a sentence?
It is not situated in a museum, it is not set out "musealy", it was not "worked out" by musealists, it hasn't got a legend, etc.
What part of speech is musealist?
Musealist is a noun.
What is the plural of musealist?
The plural of musealist is musealists.

Words near musealist in the dictionary

  1. muse-bouche
  2. muse-bouches
  3. musea
  4. museal
  5. musealisation
  6. musealist
  7. musealists
  8. museality
  9. musealization
  10. musealize
  11. musealized

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