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museology
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mu·se·ol·o·gy  (myz-l-j)
n.
The discipline of museum design, organization, and management.

muse·o·logi·cal (--lj-kl) adj.
muse·o·logi·cal·ly adv.
muse·olo·gist n.

museology [ˌmjuːzɪˈɒlədʒɪ]
n
(Social Science / Education) the science of museum organization
museological  adj
museologist  n

museology
the science of collecting and arranging objects for museums. — museologist, n.
See also: Collections and Collecting


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In the end, the installation's life history raised a whole range of provocative issues that concerned not only the museological challenges of exhibiting and preserving such work, but, more broadly, the idea of the ephemeral as paradigm and praxis.
In a slightly surreal museological menage, Mangado's building shares the site with Fournier Playing Card Museum in the neighbouring Palacio de Bendana founded in memory of tarot and playing-card manufacturer Heraclio Fournier, who set up shop in Vitoria in 1868.
Curator and Presentation House Gallery director Reid Shier has argued that the increase in post-secondary curatorial programs offered in Canada is not only a product of the emergence of curation as a career path and formal field of inquiry, but is also part of a shift from a museological and historical paradigm to one that actively engages with contemporary culture.
 
 
 
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