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Museums compose exhibitions in order to promote their objects and thus to serve to the humanity. Although the museum collections have different qualities and quantities for each museum, organization of the museums, the studies carried out for the exhibition and protection of the collections are similar. In the recent times, the understanding of exhibiting in museums have changed with the modern technologies and concepts. This study is the first bibliometric analysis that ensures statistical and extensive understanding in the museum exhibitions literature, which was carried out on indexes in Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection between 1975 and 2021. The study is expected to urge scholars to implement more studies on museum exhibitions. The analysis grasped 3085 publications drafted by 199 determined and 197 anonymous authors from 75 countries, where art, arts humanities, history, architecture and computer science are the main fields of the research. VOSviewer, which is an analysis application, was used while bibliometric analysing and data visualizing. USA produced 19.32 % of the world’s publications on museum exhibitions, which is the first country with the highest number of publications with 596 documents. The most used keywords in this literature are museum, exhibition and museums.

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