museify

present singular third person museifies · participle present museifying · participle past museified · past museified

1. alternativeAlternative form of museumify.

   And third, it indicates humans’ increasing alienation from nature by criticizing their attempts to museify it.

   2017, Evi Zemanek, “Mocking the Anthropocene: Caricatures of Man-Made Landscapes in German Satirical Magazines from the Fin de Siècle”, in Sabine Wilke, Japhet Johnstone, editors, Readings in the Anthropocene: The Environmental Humanities, German Studies, and Beyond (New Directions in German Studies), Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 140

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   There was an exhibit, the title was ‘Everything that I stole from you’, and the artist was exhibiting stolen objects, and he stated where they were stolen, from whom, etc.; it was an exhibit of theft. So obviously it was museified. It was a ready-made. Rather than a bottle-rack, it was theft that was on display, as social action. And so something that was alive was museified . . . Today’s museum has no more boundaries, and we know that there are entire communities that have been anthropologically museified, as patrimony.

   2017, Richard G. Smith, David B. Clarke, editors, Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Culture: Uncollected Interviews, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN

   Hersonski’s film resists museifying the film as historical object and therefore avoids assuming any truth value about the past from its content.

   2019, Victoria Grace Walden, Cinematic Intermedialities and Contemporary Holocaust Memory, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 102