museumify

Verb

museumify (third-person singular simple present museumifies, present participle museumifying, simple past and past participle museumified)

1. Synonym of museumize.
   • It ended with the Chinese Communists, as inheritors of China’s history, “museumifying” the past that their own sense of Chineseness would not comfortably let them denounce in total.1976, Ralph C. Croizier, “China’s Worlds: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and the “Problem of Chinese Identity””, in Maurice Meisner, Rhoads Murphey, editors, The Mozartian Historian: Essays on the...
   • “The trick is not to museumify the landscape, but use it as a positive asset for education and leisure,” he says.[…]But companies such as Carnon Holdings and Geevor Tin Mines do not want to museumify tin mining. They want the industry to continue into the next century.1991, Geographical: The Monthly Magazine of the Royal Geographical Society, page 15

   Synonyms:

   museumize