C2 · 25 words
Museology in Italian
A museum does not collect things, it collects responsibility.
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The seventeenth entry is l’accesso per la ricerca, and the last noun covers ground that English shares out between two words. La ricerca is research, the sense this page wants: un progetto di ricerca, fare ricerca, un centro di ricerca. But it is equally the ordinary act of looking for something. La ricerca delle chiavi is a hunt for the keys and has nothing scholarly about it, essere alla ricerca di un lavoro is job-hunting, and the police conduct le ricerche for a missing person, in the plural, where English would say « the search ». The verb carries both jobs too: cercare is to look for, and ricercare can be either. Two side effects are worth having in advance. Ricercato as a past participle means wanted by the police — il latitante più ricercato — and as an adjective it means refined or studied, said of a prose style or of a dish. And una ricercatezza is an elegance, never a finding. Read ricerca by the sentence around it and this list stays in the reading room.
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Noun (f) (14)
Grammar for these: Definite article: il, lo, la · Indefinite article: un, uno
la politica delle collezionithe collections policyNoun (f)C2
l’alienazione di un’operathe deaccessioning of a workNoun (f)C2
la scheda dell’oggettothe object recordNoun (f)C2
l’assicurazione da chiodo a chiodonail-to-nail insuranceNoun (f)C2
la conservazione preventivapreventive conservationNoun (f)C2
la regolazione dell’umidità relativathe control of relative humidityNoun (f)C2
la disinfestazione delle collezionipest control in collectionsNoun (f)C2
la costruzione dei supportithe making of mountsNoun (f)C2
l’accessibilità del museoaccessibility of the museumNoun (f)C2
la digitalizzazione della collezionethe digitisation of the collectionNoun (f)C2
la licenza libera per le immaginian open licence for imagesNoun (f)C2
l’arte trafugatalooted artNoun (f)C2
la comunità di originethe community of originNoun (f)C2
le presenze di pubblicovisitor numbersNoun (f)C2
Noun (m) (11)
Grammar for these: Definite article: il, lo, la · Indefinite article: un, uno
il numero di inventariothe accession numberNoun (m)C2
il corriere musealethe museum courierNoun (m)C2
il limite di esposizione luminosathe light exposure limitNoun (m)C2
il ricovero in depositostorage in the museum storeNoun (m)C2
il racconto della mostrathe narrative of the exhibitionNoun (m)C2
il percorso di visitathe visitor routeNoun (m)C2
il tempo di sosta davanti all’operathe dwell time in front of a workNoun (m)C2
l’accesso per la ricercaaccess for researchNoun (m)C2
il contesto colonialethe colonial contextNoun (m)C2
il trattamento dei resti umanithe treatment of human remainsNoun (m)C2
il codice deontologicothe code of professional ethicsNoun (m)C2
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