musealization

English

Alternative forms

• musealisation

Etymology

From museal +‎ -ization.

Noun

musealization (uncountable)

1. The process of making something suitable for exhibition in a museum; conversion to the status of a museum exhibit.
   • 1996, Hans-Peter Schwarz, Jeffrey Shaw, Media art perspectives, page 182:

     The central problem of musealization for the museum and beyond this is the non-varied, non-differentiated cultural archiving of even the most banal objects of everyday life that is apparently of a neutral value.