“The German word ‘museal’ [‘museumlike’] has unpleasant overtones.
It describes objects to which the observer no longer has a vital relationship and which are in process of dying. They owe their preservation more to historical respect than to the needs of the present. Museum and mausoleum are connected by more than phonetic association. Museums are like
the family sepulchers of works of art.”

Theodor W. Adorno