museumize

verb museumizes · museumizing · museumized

1. transitive To turn (a topic) into a museum subject; to create museums devoted to (a topic). More animated responses came from the Academy and museum professionals during a two-day conference on the ‘Holocaust and British Museums’, hosted by the Wiener Library in July 1996. Overall, responses were generally positive: Kochan was the only outright opponent, dismissing the initiative as intros
2. transitive To make (an object) museumworthy.
3. transitive To turn (an object) into a museum piece.
4. transitive To turn (a place or building) into an open-air museum, a house museum, a heritage site or a curated environment of some sort, to be preserved and presented to the public much like a museum piece. With the forthcoming ceremony in mind and the subsequent development of cultural tourism, an urban tradition of slavery was developed, by “museumizing” the town and choreographing it by a sequence of sacred sites called “La Route des Esclaves” (the route of the slaves).
5. derogatory, often, transitive To turn (a culture or community) into a living exhibit. [...] but MacCannell sees the process of playing Indian for the tourists as dangerous. He suggests that the tourists, buyers, dealers, and so forth "museumize" native groups such as Indians by turning their culture into a living exhibit (MacCannell 1984).