museology

en-noun

museology (countable and uncountable, plural museologies)

The design, organization, and management of museums.

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design, organization and management of museums


gallery

From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, from Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), perhaps an alteration of galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Palestine. More at Galilee.


museum

en-verb

museum (third-person singular simple present museums, present participle museuming, simple past and past participle museumed)

museums (present singular third-person)
museuming (participle present)
museumed (participle past)
museumed (past)

From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)).

I told her I'd do just one visit to start; I don't really have time to do a lot of museuming.

2014, Robin Reardon, Educating Simon, page 212:

(intransitive, colloquial) To visit museums.


Tower of London

A riverside fortress in London, used as a palace, a prison and now a museum housing the Crown Jewels.


planetarium

en-noun

planetarium (plural planetariums or planetaria)

planetariums (plural)
planetaria (plural)

/plænɪˈtɛəɹɪəm/

Borrowed from New Latin planētārium. Equivalent to planet + -arium.

A display museum in which images of stars and other astronomical phenomena are projected onto a domed ceiling.


Louvre

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Borrowed from French Louvre. More at Louvre Palace.

God above, this man was as chiseled as the statues she'd spied in the Louvre.

2011, Tara Kingston, Claimed by the Spymaster, page 68:

I don't care if your split, power or squat position looks like it should be in the Louvre, you won't jerk a thing.

2010, Don McCauley, Power Trip: A Guide to Weightlifting for Coaches, Athletes and Parents, page 130:

I preferred the Dutch apple pie, and my waitress for those few years had legs that belonged in the Louvre.

2006, Ted Nelson Lundrigan, Bob White, A Bird in the Hand, page 85:

IF YOU ARE a young Joe DiMaggio or Mickey Mantle with a swing that belongs in the Louvre, somebody might get the idea you could win a batting title, even if it was only your second year with the New York Yankees.

1985 February, Phil Elderkin, “Don Mattingly: A.L. Batting Champion, A Born Hitter”, in Baseball Digest, volume 44, number 2, page 49:

For purposes of illustrating a lecture on calisthenics, a stick figure is a better picture of a squatting man than something from the Louvre.

1960, Thomas Felix Staton, How to Instruct Successfully: Modern Teaching Methods in Adult Education, page 172:

They are cries which show that every one has his own place, and should stay in it, — M. de Guise in the streets, and you in the Louvre. Go to the Louvre, Sire; go to the Louvre.

1889, Alexandre Dumas, Dame de Monsoreau: Volume 1, page 319:

A famous art museum and former royal palace in Paris, France.


museophile

From Greek mouseîon (seat of the Muses), μουσείον, museum, + -phile.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:museophile.


museography

museography (countable and uncountable, plural museographies)


deaccession

en-verb

deaccession (third-person singular simple present deaccessions, present participle deaccessioning, simple past and past participle deaccessioned)

deaccessions (present singular third-person)
deaccessioning (participle present)
deaccessioned (participle past)
deaccessioned (past)

/ˌdiːækˈsɛʃən/

Perhaps he forgets that museums, too, have basements full of stored art, and not every piece is equally adored. The temptation must be great to “deaccession” some of it, and museums often do succumb.

2000 December, Jeanne Schinto, “Obscure Objects of Lapsed Desire”, in The Atlantic:

Over the past few years, the museum has quietly begun deaccessioning—the genteel art-world euphemism for “getting rid of”—large numbers of its city artifacts.

2010 June, John Freeman Gill, “Ghosts of New York”, in The Atlantic:

The second is an unwritten rule that when a museum deaccessions a picture, the money should be used to purchase art only of the same period.

2010, Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, Aurum Press Limited, →ISBN:

To officially remove an object from a museum, art gallery or library so that it may be sold.


wax museum

On the eve of selling his London wax museum to American Amos Burns, Claude Dupree is murdered by his Jack the Ripper figure, which apparently comes to life.

2020, James McKay, Ray Milland: The Films, 1929–1984, McFarland, →ISBN, page 261:

A museum featuring lifelike statues made of wax.


musæum

From the Latin mūsaeum, variant form of mūsēum, whence the English museum.

1721: William Lilly, Mr. Lilly’s History of His Life and Times: Written by Himself. Published from the Original Manuscript, Reposited in the Ashmolean Musæum at Oxford. To which is Subjoined, The True History of King James I. and King Charles I., book title (E. Curll, J. Pemberton, and W. Taylor)

1774: The Divine Predictions of Daniel and St. John Demonstrated: In a Symbolical Theological Dissertation on Cox’s Musæum. With Notes, Critical and Explanatory…, book title (J. Wheble)

1789: Leman Thomas Rede, Alexander Dalrymple, John Debrett, and Arthur Homer, Bibliotheca Americana; Or, A Chronological Catalogue of the Most Curious and Interesting Books, Pamphlets, State Papers, &c. Upon the Subject of North and South America: From the Earliest Period to the Present, in Print and Manuscript; for which Research Has Been Made in the British Musæum, and…, book title (self-published)

1868: Museo nazionale di Napoli and Raffaele Gargiulo, Collection of the most remarkable monuments of the National Musæum, book title (R. Gargiulo)


museumgoer

“It’s not the audience and the forum that they crave in the way that somebody in an earlier generation might have,” said Carlo McCormick[…] of museumgoers and museums.

2009 January 25, Randy Kennedy, “Outlaws at the Art Museum (and Not for a Heist)”, in New York Times:


cybermuseum

A museum that exists only in cyberspace or on the Internet.


Hagia Sophia

/ˈhɑːɡiə soʊˈfiə/

From Byzantine Greek and Ancient Greek Ἁγία Σοφία (Hagía Sophía, “Holy Wisdom”).

bor

A mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, (historical) the former patriarchal church of Greek Orthodoxy, operated as a museum 1935–2020.

Ajasofja

a former basilica, now a mosque in Turkey


open-air museum

en-noun

open-air museum (plural open-air museums)

Engineers from the Tyne & Wear Metro stepped back in time in December, to conduct a safety-critical inspection of the tramway at the open-air Beamish Museum in County Durham.

2022 January 12, “Network News: Nexus inspects Beamish lines”, in RAIL, number 948, page 14:

A museum where the exhibitions are located outdoors.


museumgoing

the museumgoing public

Visiting a museum or museums, especially habitually or regularly.


museumgoing

During the eighties, a number of major museums, including the Modern, had expanded, hoping to cash in on a boom in museumgoing.

1994 May, New York Magazine, volume 27, number 19:


science center

Founded in 1967 as a private, nonprofit science center, Talcott attracts thousands of students from the region to its daylong and weekend sessions to supplement their regular science curriculum

1991 December, G. Keizer with D. M. Kennedy, “Class acts”, in Omni, volume 14, number 3, page 42:

Intel's hands-on science centers were so successful with students that the New Mexico State Department of Education adopted them as a model for schools.

2000 July/August, Edward E Gordon, “Help wanted: Creating tomorrow's work force”, in Futurist, volume 34, number 4, page 48:

Gatorade Sports Science institute(R) Committed to providing information in exercise science and sports nutrition. Visit the sports science center at www.gssiweb.com for practical training information

2001 September 27, “Skills: Which wheel should you draft?”, in Bicycling, volume 42, number 9, page 24:

Take Washington D.C.'s much-heralded makeover of Union Station, for example. Or in the Midwest, where adaptive reuse has driven lavish restorations of big stations in St. Louis, now primarily a marketplace, and in Kansas City, where a science center is the main tenant.

2001 April 18, Ross Atkin, “Back on track”, in Christian Science Monitor:

An organization, location, or virtual location where science is done or exhibited, either professionally or educationally.


insectarium

insectarium (plural insectaria or insectariums)

insectaria (plural)
insectariums (plural)

A type of live insect zoo, or a museum or exhibit of live insects and similar arthropods.


antimuseum

en-adj

antimuseum (comparative more antimuseum, superlative most antimuseum)

more antimuseum (comparative)
most antimuseum (superlative)

He had a clearly articulated antimuseum stance. His antagonism toward the museum as an institution did not take the form of trying to change the museum or subvert it from within. Instead, for a long time, he bypassed it altogether.

2001, Julie H. Reiss, From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art, page 29:


minimuseum

Nassau County Museum of Art “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” an indoor and outdoor fantasy land at the minimuseum.

2009 May 31, “Events on Long Island”, in New York Times:


multimuseum

Of or pertaining to more than one museum.


museum piece

Referring to the preservation of historic artifacts in museums.

These excursions proved popular, and it is, perhaps, not too much to hope that British Railways will revive the idea, and use museum pieces to stage exhibitions of trains of bygone days.

1950 October, H. C. Casserley, “Locomotive Cavalcade, 1920-1950—4”, in Railway Magazine, page 660:

An item worthy of being kept by a museum.


Uffizi

From Italian Uffizi (literally “Offices”).

A major museum and art gallery in Florence, Italy.


ecomuseum

A museum, often consisting of replica buildings in an outdoor setting, that shows the heritage of a particular locality or community


museumobile

Despite the costs involved in establishing and maintaining a program like the Parkmobile, our experience suggests that museumobiles are uniquely suited for use in rural areas where you cannot expect your public to come to the museum […]

A vehicle that operates as a mobile museum.


museumification

The process of conversion into a museum.


living museum

A type of museum which recreates historical settings to simulate a past time period, providing visitors with an experiential interpretation of history; a museum which incorporates living history.