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museology

study of museums
Intangible academic_discipline Q460162
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Summary

museology is an academic discipline[1]. museology draws 846 Wikipedia views per month (academic discipline category, ranking #221 of 1,010).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: academic major[3]
  • Subclass of: study of history[4]
  • Commons category: Museology[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Museology[6]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[7]
  • Replaces: premuseology[8]
  • Different from: curatorial studies[9]
  • Is the study of: museum[10]
  • Studied by: metamuseology[11]
  • Practiced by: museologist[12]
  • P10203: 1209[13]

Why It Matters

museology has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] museology is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

Aleksandr Drikker collections management Institute for Museum Research International Mountain Museums Alliance Ivan Šestan Oswaldo Cruz House

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . All Science Journal Classification Codes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Google knowledge graph id → —
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  2. 12w ago · Leon9219 · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Google knowledge graph id → —
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  3. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → ['0294042-muzejnictvi', 'h0007099-muzeologie']
    P14541 → 3Wgmg0
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 17w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → ['0294042-muzejnictvi', 'h0007099-muzeologie']
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0294042-muzejnictvi, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259576|batch #259576]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image purged at → —
    Different from → curatorial studies
    Is the study of → museum
    Subclass of → study of history
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 15607, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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