Museum

Permanent ID: smellbook:smell:museum · updated 2026-10-06, revision 4

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A museum smells quiet, dry and still, with faint traces of paper, polished wood and cool stone.

Words: dry, paper. Families: Temperature and texture, Animal, material and lived-in.

Met in: Museum.

A documented museum smellscape (CLM-MUSEUM-001). Xi Ling & Menlixue Cheng, Mapping the olfactory mindscape in museums: a grounded theory investigation into smellscape perception and its impact on cultural tourism experience, Frontiers in Psychology, 2026.

SmellBook. (2026). Museum (revision 4, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:museum. https://smellbook.com/smells/museum

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