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Museum vs Museumgoer - What's the difference?

museum | museumgoer |

As nouns the difference between museum and museumgoer

is that museum is a building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value while museumgoer is a person who visits a museum.

museum

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(wikipedia museum) (en-noun)
  • A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.

    • Related terms

    * museography * museology * museophile * museum beetle * museum pest

    museumgoer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who visits a museum
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 25, Randy Kennedy, Outlaws at the Art Museum (and Not for a Heist), New York Times citation
    • , passage=“It’s not the audience and the forum that they crave in the way that somebody in an earlier generation might have,” said Carlo McCormick