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museumgoer

American  
[myoo-zee-uhm-goh-er] / mjuˈzi əmˌgoʊ ər /

noun

  1. a frequent visitor to museums.


Etymology

Origin of museumgoer

First recorded in 1925–30; museum + goer


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At the Columbus Museum of Art, you’ll meet an eager, starry-eyed, complex human — Van Gogh the museumgoer, the lifelong student, the brother, the nature-lover, the empath.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2022

And when he sees a fellow museumgoer moved literally to tears by Roger van Der Weyden’s “Descent From the Cross,” his own reflections point less to reverence than to doubt.

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2019

The average museumgoer may not realize that it took 12 trips to the Vatican for Bolton to present the idea and win over members of Pope Francis' inner circle.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2018

The museumgoer who touched was a woman or a child; the patriarchs shut things up in cases and then looked at them imprisoned.

From The New Yorker ● May 16, 2016

A museumgoer with explosive eyebrows standing beside a stone-faced statue.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2014

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