How to Use museumgoer in a Sentence
museumgoer
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At one point, museumgoers are taken along a journey from the perspective of a comet.
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New York Times,
12 Mar. 2020
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Museumgoers can see a number of exhibits mentioned in the book, like the mummy and the bronze cat in the Egyptian wing.
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Patrick Sauer,
Smithsonian,
16 May 2017
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The artist has installed colored gels on a long thin skylight, to give museumgoers the sensation of walking through a rainbow.
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New York Times,
22 June 2018
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Studies suggest that the average museumgoer looks at an artwork for less than 30 seconds.
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Washington Post,
4 Apr. 2021
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Free bus transportation for student and senior museumgoers came along with free admission in Detroit.
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Donna Bryson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
13 Mar. 2018
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The instruments are displayed upright, as if saluting both museumgoers and themselves, and deservedly so.
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Mark Feeney,
BostonGlobe.com,
11 July 2019
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But museumgoers don’t have to wait for Tate to reopen to appreciate the exhibition.
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Theresa MacHemer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Apr. 2020
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Light from outside fills the space – a symbol of the museumgoer’s own enlightenment in understanding human rights.
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Sara Miller Llana,
The Christian Science Monitor,
13 July 2022
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Museum experts say that high-profile shows can work in the short term to attract all sorts of crowds, but the challenge comes in converting those patrons into regular museumgoers.
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Charles Passy,
WSJ,
4 Oct. 2018
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Millions of museumgoers see it, put themselves in the shoes of those brave college students, think about their own place in history and contemplate the long struggle for equality that still endures.
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Lonnie Bunch,
Twin Cities,
4 Oct. 2019
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Both groups saw shoppers and museumgoers as bodies to be regulated by protocols of decorum when occupying these spaces.
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Courtney Coffman,
The Atlantic,
19 June 2018
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Young museumgoers donned virtual reality headgear and swam across the ocean depths, their first-person perspective was that of a beluga whale in search of scrumptious octopi and fish.
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Ryan P. Smith,
Smithsonian,
19 Oct. 2017
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Austrian art has evolved past such concerns, but what could the Albertina Modern mean for museumgoers in Vienna?
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New York Times,
11 Mar. 2020
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As always, the risk of making something so Instagram-friendly is that museumgoers may be too busy taking photographs to enjoy the exhibition.
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Glenn Dixon,
Smithsonian,
9 Apr. 2018
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Returning home to her Upper West Side apartment, the museumgoer encouraged the couple to contact the Met, per a statement.
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Tara Wu,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 Oct. 2020
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The inclusion of recent immigrants, meanwhile, offers another message, pulling the museumgoer out of black-and-white history and into the familiarity of the present.
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oregonlive,
26 Jan. 2022
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Opposing voices or opinions from museumgoers are scarce, while professional assessments are neither novel enough to challenge the art enthusiast nor clear enough to engage the newcomer.
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Ken Jaworowski,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2017
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Every museumgoer, from first-time visitors to your 10th grader’s beginning drawing class, will have an unprecedented opportunity to get up close and personal with great works of art.
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Mary Carole McCauley,
baltimoresun.com,
24 Nov. 2021
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Ringgold, who was raised in Harlem and supported the Black Power movement in the 1960s, is remembered in the reductive shorthand of the casual museumgoer as a political artist, and a provocative one.
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Washington Post,
31 Mar. 2021
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In the upcoming exhibit in Leiden, museumgoers will have the opportunity to virtually remove layer upon layer of mummification materials, exposing the 49 crocodiles beneath.
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National Geographic,
20 Nov. 2016
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