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  • adjective Pertaining to museology.

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From museology +‎ -ical.

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Examples

  • Best reference for some museological projects is actually an article in Museum International

    On a forthcoming exhibition DC 2010

  • There and in many other testing grounds, arranged in museological, Donald Judd-like intervals of solids and negatives, these perfect geometries are coming undone.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • Those efforts reached an emotional crescendo with the unveiling of Bernard Tschumi's $200 million showplace, which seems less an architectural event or a museological accomplishment than the costliest and craftiest weapon in a Kulturkampf of Homeric intensity and duration.

    Grading the New Acropolis Filler, Martin 2009

  • There and in many other testing grounds, arranged in museological, Donald Judd-like intervals of solids and negatives, these perfect geometries are coming undone.

    Arrangement of Test Specimens at Treat Island Natural Weathering Exposure Station 2009

  • In a speech prepared for delivery in Pretoria, he said issues of governance had to precede those which were strictly museological.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Martin said there was no money to fulfill the gallery's educational, museological or curatorial functions.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • An introductory slide show, which has the flickering feel of an antique Kinetoscope, welcomes the visitor with an authoritative museological voice, intoning that the place "is an educational institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the public appreciation of the Lower Jurassic."

    NYT > Home Page By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN 2012

  • With performance art increasingly entering the museological mainstream

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The total illuminates, thrills and provides much useful grist - both artistic and museological - for the art-world mill.

    NYT > Home Page 2011

  • You are lured in with an overused museological conceit: you are treated as a mobster "under suspicion."

    NYT > Home Page By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN 2012

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