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museum Definition

mu·seum (myo̵̅o̅ zē′əm)

noun

an institution, building, or room for preserving and exhibiting artistic, historical, or scientific objects

Etymology: L < Gr mouseion, place for the Muses or for study < mousa, Muse

museum Synonyms

museum

n.

institution, gallery, hall, place of exhibition, foundation, art gallery, library, picture gallery, archives, treasury, storehouse, depository, vault, repository, aquarium, menagerie, zoological garden, zoological park, zoo, botanical garden, herbarium, arboretum.

Famous museums include: Museum of the Archaeological Society, National Museum of Antiquities, Athens; Archaeological Museum, Cairo; Louvre, Orsay, Army, Paris; British Museum, National Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museo Nazionale, Naples; Vatican Gallery, Museo Nazionale, Rome; Museo del Prado, Madrid; Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin; Rumiantsov Museum, Moscow; Hermitage, Imperial Academy of Science, Leningrad; Museo Nacional, Mexico City; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Air and Space Museum, National Gallery of Art Museum, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, Washington; Field Museum, Art Institute, Chicago; Cleveland Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Modern Art, American Museum of Natural History, Museum of the American Indian, New York; Huntington Library, Pasadena, California.

.museum Telecom Definition
Pronounced dot museum.The generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) reserved exclusively for the museum community. This domain was created in 2002 under the sponsorship of the Museum Domain Management Association. See also gTLD, Internet, and sponsored domain.
museum Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • dedicate: About the Museum: 36 acre industrial museum dedicated to the industrial heritage of the South East.
  • visit: Here we are free to shop, to visit the museum or just wander at will.

Adjective modifier

  • maritime: She was opened as Ohio's only floating maritime museum in 1991.
  • fascinating: Relaxing days on the beach, an afternoon browsing designer shops or visiting fascinating museums?
  • virtual: A virtual museum on personal computers from 1978 onwards, by Philippe Dubois.
  • ethnographic: We know them best by the way they are displayed in either art galleries or ethnographic museums.
  • award-winning: The award-winning new museum at Rørvik celebrates the important part the sea has played in defining today's Norway.
  • archeological: Lipari has a lively main town with an 11th-century cathedral, remains of Roman buildings and an interesting archeological museum.

Modifies a noun

  • curator: Planning archeologists, contracting units, specialists and museum curators were all consulted, together with as much documentation as possible.
  • exhibit: Some rare contemporary museum exhibits are adorned with carvings.
  • collection: Museum collections, he says, deny the opportunity for the private display of objects.
  • artifact: Twelve pupils from year 11 went behind the scenes to choose museum artifacts to use to inspire their own work.
  • object: It enables students to create their own interpretations of museum objects through descriptions, images and sounds.
  • specimen: Also, the interior of the museum specimen appears smooth compared with the recreated dissection.

Noun used with modifier

  • wax: In this remake of the classic 1953 Andre de Toth film that starred Vincent Price, horrors abound in a creepy wax museum.
  • aviation: A branch of the Imperial War Museum, Duxford is Europe's premier aviation museum.
  • mining: An aim might be: To become the best mining heritage museum in the North of England.
  • folk: Once on Easdale Island we visit the local folk museum, where we learn about the life of the former slate mining community.
  • railroad: The Railroad Age Details of The Railroad Age railroad museum at Crewe.
  • science: On another day, the KLB group visited a science museum in the nearby town of Kofu.
museum Quotes

The sooner the Crown Colony system is removed from thesphere of practical politicsand put underaglasscase in the South Kensington Museum, labelled 'Extinct', the better for everyone.

—Kingsley, Mary Henrietta

In the modern city, it takes on the status of a cathedral, our Chartres, our Notre Dame, our marble museum of the soul.

—Rodriguez, Richard

The mind is a museum to be looted at night.

—Raine, Craig Anthony

The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.

—Engels, Friedrich

   You're the top You're the Louvr'Museum You're a melody from a symphony by Strauss.

—Porter, Cole

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