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 the 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 the family sepulchers of works of art. - Theodore W. Adorno, "Valery Proust Museum"