• Museological

    Origin

    From museology + -ical.

    Full definition of museological

    Adjective

    museological

    1. Pertaining to museology.
      • 2007, July 20, Roberta Smith, Space Exploration, Conducted on a Spiral, But as a testament to what might be called the Thomas Krens legacy — he will be remembered as a builder of museums who failed to build where his museum needed it most — this is partly a depressing show, symptomatic of the kind of museological missteps that have become par for the course in New York.
      • 2007, October 5, Edward Rothstein, What’s Latex Got to Do With It?, Of course, in the cinema gallery, where monitors and projections are accompanied by museological text labels, a voyeuristic, peep-show pleasure is partly promised; and tape loops of pornographic hydraulics hold repeat viewers in rapt attention.
      • 2009, March 27, Simon Jenkins, This hoarding of treasures is a scandal. They belong to the world, They are stars of the museological jet set.

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