musealist

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noun

A person who creates and manages museum exhibits; a curator who works for a museum.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nounmusealist (plural musealists)

plural musealists

  1. rareA person who creates and manages museum exhibits; a curator who works for a museum.

    The 1910 Japanese exhibition was not so bound by polite musealists.

    1982, The Contemporary Review, page 23
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    Principal researches: mostly the history of the Croatio-Slavonic »Vojna krajina« in the 19ᵗʰ century, cultural history of the Croatian nation (as a musealist), and since 1970 the history of Burgenland Croats (in 1970 he organized a circulating exhibition in Croatia on Burgenland Croats which visited Burgenland as well, in October 1973 he took part in the »Symposion Croaticon« in Vienna).

    1976, Actual Questions of the Slovene and Croat Minorities in Austria, page 75

    Let us assume that we have a painting, oil on canvas, an exquisite work of art, on the wall of our sitting room. Does it have the property of museality? I believe it doesn't. It is not situated in a museum, it is not set out "musealy", it was not "worked out" by musealists, it hasn't got a legend, etc.

    1997, Želimir Laszlo, “Is Museology a Part of the Science of Information?”, in Zbyněk Z[byslav] Stránský, editor, Museology for Tomorrow’s World: Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Masaryk University, Brno, Oct 9-11, 1996, Munich: Verlag Dr. Christian Müller-Straten; […], →ISBN, page 61

    The atmosphere was thus conducive to discussion on the subject fundamental for Germany’s new identity, and it can today resemble our Polish public debate and its accompanying events that made up the so-called “historical policy” under president Lech Kaczyński, with the participation of so-called “musealists” (a circle associated with the 1944 Warsaw Rising Museum and the then Mayor of Warsaw, i.e. the late president Lech Kaczyński).

    2016, Jan P[aweł] Hudzik, “Theory of History vis-à-vis two World Wars and the Holocaust”, in Wojciech Owczarski, editor, The Holocaust and the Contemporary World (Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne.; number 6), Wydział Filologiczny UG, →ISSN, section “The Ethical Turn”, page 40

    Analyzing the development of research of methodological and scientific concepts, we show the relevance of this^([sic]) problems, among Chinese musealists, historians and designers. We can say that among the museums of а historical profile, there is a trend of nationalist, multicultural, socio-cultural, socio-pedagogical and historical vision.

    2019, Liza A. Markina, “The Modern Methodological and Scientific Concepts of Exhibition Planning on the Example of the Museums of a Historical Profile in China”, in Vita Antiqua, number 11, →DOI, →ISSN, page 199

    Trying to overcome anthropocentrism ends in moral relativism, same as with nationalism and ethnocentrism. While the latter derive their moral criteria from birth, environmentalists and musealists derive them from choice.

    2020, Ingo Niermann, “Wet Gods”, in Solution 295-304: Mare Amoris, Sternberg Press, →ISBN, pages 94–95

Origin

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