musealization

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Etymology

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From museal +‎ -ization.

Noun

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musealization (uncountable)

  1. The process of making something suitable for exhibition in a museum; conversion to the status of a museum exhibit.
    • 1996, Hans-Peter Schwarz, Jeffrey Shaw, Media art perspectives, page 182:
      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.