Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The systematic description or written classification of objects in a museum. Also musœography.

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  • noun the description of museum collections

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Examples

  • Scott's presence at Open Museum is an excellent example of an emerging hybrid type of online museum that integrates the ambiance and protocols of traditional museography with the social media and self publishing trends of the world wide web.

    Museum Blogs 2010

  • The children do fieldwork data collection, museography, and teach one another and visitors about heritage, studying and exploring the heritage by themselves.

    WN.com - Articles related to Singapore Airlines Aids Rainforest Preservation 2010

  • The children do fieldwork data collection, museography, and teach one another and visitors about heritage, studying and exploring the heritage by themselves.

    WN.com - Articles related to Singapore Airlines Aids Rainforest Preservation 2010

  • The children do fieldwork data collection, museography, and teach one another and visitors about heritage, studying and exploring the heritage by themselves.

    WN.com - Articles related to Singapore Airlines Aids Rainforest Preservation 2010

  • - The intersections between the market, the museum and evolving discourses; art history, the history of science and museography/museology.

    Museum Blogs 2010

  • The word museography properly refers to the systematic description of objects in museums, but it might also do for the culture and ideology surrounding that dusty old figure of legend, the artist’s “muse.”

    The Muse at Her Easel Zadie Smith 2020

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