Ethnomuseology is the study of museums in addition to museum curation in the context of the culture together with cultural traditions of its collections. this is the an interdisciplinary field combining museum studies, anthropology, ethnography, and often various fine arts.
As stated by Moira Simpson, "Ethnomuseology is the field of scholarship concerning culturally appropriate museum curation and conservation of ethnographic materials using methods that reflect social, cultural, spiritual, or religious aspects of objects."[] A museum subscribing the principles of ethnomuseology will often keeps and produced artifacts and collections in the traditional kind of their ethnological origins, combining the museum with the rituals and community of its theme. This can be in addition to conventional Western museum practices, which often focuses on object materiality. As well, ethnomuseology often involves a continued dialog between museum administrators and members of represented cultures in collections. The Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology considers ethnomuseology to be a "more holistic" approach to heritage interpretation.