museumify
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museumify (third-person singular simple present museumifies, present participle museumifying, simple past and past participle museumified)
- Synonym of museumize
- 1976, Ralph C. Croizier, “China’s Worlds: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and the “Problem of Chinese Identity””, in Maurice Meisner, Rhoads Murphey, editors, The Mozartian Historian: Essays on the Works of Joseph R. Levenson, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 159:
- It ended with the Chinese Communists, as inheritors of China’s history, “museumifying” the past that their own sense of Chineseness would not comfortably let them denounce in total.
- 1991, Geographical: The Monthly Magazine of the Royal Geographical Society, page 15:
- “The trick is not to museumify the landscape, but use it as a positive asset for education and leisure,” he says. […] But companies such as Carnon Holdings and Geevor Tin Mines do not want to museumify tin mining. They want the industry to continue into the next century.
- 2015, Marc H. Ellis, The Heartbeat of the Prophetic, Wipf and Stock, published 2017, page 129:
- As our Trip Advisor recommender writes, the memorial in Kilgali “manages to evoke the horror of the genocide while still building hope and commitment, rather than anger and retribution, for the future.” Hope for whom? Is she so sure that anger and retribution can’t be carried out while still pausing for silence in the presence of the museumified dead? Being museumified, the victims don’t have a word, do they?
- 2019, Brian J. Nichols, “Tourist Temples and Places of Practice: Charting Multiple Paths in the Revival of Monasteries”, in Ji Zhe, Gareth Fisher, André Laliberté, editors, Buddhism after Mao: Negotiations, Continuities, and Reinventions, University of Hawaiʻi Press, page 105:
- Near Nanjing in the city of Yangzhou is an extreme version of a museumified site, namely, Yangzhou’s Tianning Temple, otherwise known as the Yangzhou Buddhist Culture Museum (Yangzhou Fojiao Wenhua Bowuguan 扬州佛教文化博物馆).
- 2020, Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era (Sinotheory), Duke University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN:
- As the lived memories of the socialist factories dissipate, a cinema that museumifies their ruins and ruination finds a lasting home in the art museum, mediating testimonies from the past into the future.