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musealization

musealization noun: the process of making something suitable for exhibition in a museum; conversion to the status of a museum exhibit.

Noun

musealization (uncountable)

  1. The process of making something suitable for exhibition in a museum; conversion to the status of a museum exhibit.
    • The central problem of musealization for the museum and beyond this is the non-varied, non-differentiated cultural archiving of even the most banal objects of everyday life that is apparently of a neutral value.1996, Hans-Peter Schwarz, Jeffrey Shaw, Media art perspectives, page 182

Forms of musealization

alternative formmusealisation

Origin of musealization

From museal + -ization.

Questions about musealization

What does musealization mean?
Musealization means the process of making something suitable for exhibition in a museum; conversion to the status of a museum exhibit.
What part of speech is musealization?
Musealization is a noun.

Words near musealization in the dictionary

  1. museal
  2. musealisation
  3. musealist
  4. musealists
  5. museality
  6. musealization
  7. musealize
  8. musealized
  9. musealizes
  10. musealizing
  11. museally

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