Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The discipline of museum design, organization, and management.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The science of arranging and managing museums. Also musœology.
Wiktionary
- n. The design, organization, and management of museums.
Etymologies
- From museum + -ology. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But if you want to run a museum then a vocational qualification in museology might be better.”
Academic and Vocational Qualifications - what's the difference?
“Our cooperation agreements with a number of countries have given us access to important skills such as museology and curating.”
Minister of Arts & Culture Z. Pallo Jordan, Budget Vote Speech, Room E249, Parliament, Cape Town
“Kahn & Selesnick: Mars - Adrift on the Hourglass Sea | Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick's work lies at the intersection of historical fact, apocalyptic future and nerdy museology.”
The Huffington Post: Bill Bush: Drawing on Experience: This Artweek.LA (May 23-29)
“Gover's idea for a more cogent narrative sounds like he is planning to take the museum in the direction of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, which is gathering a collection geared toward a narrative-driven museology.”
The Washington Post: How can the American Latino Museum best answer the call of the Mall?
“The goals included: educational - a connection to Jewish heritage, parental involvements, museology, improve writing and research skills; institutional - high quality images so people can see what they're looking at; privacy of students; motivation of students.”
“A final word apropos of post-pop museology: Although this show has just opened, the first edition of the exhibition catalog has already sold out, which proves that an historical show rich in cultural implication can draw people to its concerns.”
“She has also received the Lescarbot Award of the Governor General of Canada for her contributions to the cultural life of the country and the Prix Gerard-Morisset of the Government of Quebec for museology and conservation.”
“Meresamun was purchased in 1920 by University of Chicago archaeologist and historian James Henry Breasted (1865-1935), a seminal figure in Egyptology, Near Eastern studies, and museology.”
“They cite the shift in modern museology away from strong curatorial views towards a more interactive and dialogic style of exhibit in which museum-goers are seen less as “viewers” and more as “participants” but also note that most Japanese war/peace museums have civil servants rather than professionally trained curatorial staff.”
“Ilana Teicher, a curator of contemporary and modern Israeli art, earned a degree in art history at the University of Haifa and a museology degree at Tel Aviv University.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘museology’.
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phrontistery - m
from phrontistery.info
mabble, mabsoot, macadamize, macarism, macarize, macaronic, macerate, macerator, machair, machairodont, machicolation, machinule and 898 more...
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Muses
muse, Muses, muses, Muse, amuse, bemuse, amusement, amusement park, bal musette, museumgoer, museology, musette bag and 38 more...
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No Ap-ology
Unusual -ologies
morology, tidology, aerology, tyrology, orology, barology, tocology, doorology, ology, battology, dittology, cacology and 244 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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ologies
technology, acarology, aceology, acology, adenology, aedoeology, aerobiology, aerolithology, aerology, agriology, agrobiology, agrology and 850 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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Scheldahl Schools Us All
Words used by Peter Scheldahl in the New Yorker that I had to look up. And, apparently, random other words that I just enjoy. (No that is not a sentence.) Note: Now adding DFW words too.
lucubration, defenestrate, lugubrious, inkling, museology, vestibule, koan, callipygean, enfilade
Tweets
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