museumizev.
/mjuːˈziːəmʌɪz/, /mjᵿˈziːəmʌɪz/, U.S. /mjuˈziəmˌaɪz/ transitive. To preserve or display in a museum; to impart the character of a museum or museum exhibit to.
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1925 J. Gordon in Blackwood's Mag. July 194/2 His melodies are now collected into books for all to misinterpret; he has nothing more to do than to die out..; he has been museumised.
1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 Nov. ii. 27/3 The photographs were brought to public attention in the mid-60's and ‘museumized’.
1990 Sunday Tel. 11 Nov. 17/4 The [National] Trust, in the words of another critic, has a tendency to ‘museumise’ its houses.
1996 Oxf. Mag. No. 132. 10/2 The tendency is to wrap them up, put them away in a glass case, in a word museumise them.
Derivatives
muˈseumized adj.
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1987 Daily Tel. 2 Jan. 8/1 There are small streets and a few ancient (museumised) houses and inns that give one a taste of the old flavour.
1995 Canad. Jrnl. Communication 20 246 Barkerville is a kind of..museumized gold-mining town staffed by actors in late-nineteenth-century costume.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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