museum
(mjuːziːəm )
Word forms: museums
countable noun A2
A museum is a building where a large number of interesting and valuable objects, such as works of art or historical items, are kept, studied, and displayed to the public.
For months Malcolm had wanted to visit the Parisian art museums.
...the American Museum of Natural History. [+ of]
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It has remained operating as a licenced hotel since and also incorporates a heritage museum with displaying historical artifacts from the local area.
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Since 1992, the prison has operated as a heritage museum, and by 2005 the prison was attracting more than 130,000 visitors every year.
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Now, it serves as a heritage museum, exhibiting antique household articles and curios.
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Eventually there are plans to develop the site, with combinations of housing, industrial estate, industrial heritage museum or tourism resort being debated with several potential partners.
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Not enough money, obviously, and perhaps rather too much of it devoted to showy projects like art galleries, heritage museums and seasonal tourist attractions such as whale-watching.
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If they're really good, there's a history museum.
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Because this wasn’t a history museum, they also decided to go more minimalist with the text.
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Experts consulted by the state history museum estimated its value at $25,000 (14,000).
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Inside the nearby national history museum, he earned just a single mention, beside a notebook recording one of his daring 1970s speeches.
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Not far from the cathedral you will find the city's first museum - now the natural history museum and with a sign that simply says 'museum' above its door.
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Antique iron rings that were once used to corral cattle are still attached to the internal portico of the museum building.
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The crematorium building, with stone ovens, stands outside the main museum building.
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In 1859, due to such over extensions, he lost his museum building to creditors.
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The original museum building was extended in 1925, 1958 and 1976.
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The museum building reached its present structure in 1968.
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The museum hosts educational public programs, including historical demonstrations and campfires.
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Today, the museum hosts exhibitions of historic and contemporary art, as well as concerts, lectures, family and community programs, and changing courtyard displays.
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The museum hosts guest speakers, annual special events, and week-long youth science camps in the summer.
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The museum hosts about 1,600 fossils with samples of flora and fauna.
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The museum hosts lectures, special celebrations, summer camps, and open houses.
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You will get the exclusive chance to go behind the scenes at the museum to visit laboratories bustling with scientists and archaeologists ahead of the museum opening.
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Two special stamps about the museum were issued at the museum opening.
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Conferences, museum openings, the weekly market and any other public gatherings have been suspended.
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Opened in 2000, the museum preserves the mill's state at its shutdown in 1961.
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The museum preserves the house much as it existed and developed historically.
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The institute's museum preserves wood, seed and fruit samples of plants with medicinal properties.
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The museum preserves the furniture of the time, but the decor has been subjected to some changes.
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Most museum professionals are concerned by this shift away from the importance of collections, but what choice do we have?
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The centre's predicament has provoked international outrage among museum professionals and conservation experts.
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Archaeologists and museum professionals have called the campaign culturally insensitive and raised concerns about the provenance of the remains.
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We've been wondering for years how to get our artists, and our museum professionals, better known and appreciated abroad.
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The faculty includes licensed teachers and museum professionals who collaborate to design the curriculum.
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The current owner has arranged various witty artefacts inside his, presumably so it looks like a museum shop.
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Alas, on leaving the exhibition, we are led into the revamped museum shop.
The Times Literary Supplement
The huge scroll takes the viewer on to the final turnstiles, which propel him or her directly into the lights of the museum shop.
The Times Literary Supplement
It had no space for temporary exhibitions or a library or even for a proper museum shop.
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It's not the only museum shop in town.
The Sun
The museum showcases both national and international artists.
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The museum showcases interactive in-house-developed and traveling exhibits, as well as historical programming and lectures.
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The museum showcases cameras and other photography material all the way from the late 1800s.
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The museum showcases the community's history, including an exhibition of antique farm tractors all freshly restored and in running condition.
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The art museum showcases a wide range of elements of antiquity.
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The museum site covers 14 acres and stretches for one kilometre.
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The exhibits were once crowded at an old museum site several blocks away.
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It was cut up at the old museum site by the summer of 1972.
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The museum site includes a steam crane from 1946, and wildlife areas.
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As the new museum's first acquisition, 261 was moved to the museum site in 1958.
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This forced researchers to go back to old museum specimens to work out where the various species originated.
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We’ve inferred their life history information using museum specimens and the data our lab and other labs have collected on live individuals.
Smithsonian Insider
It was discovered four years ago among preserved museum specimens before three live adults and tadpoles were found.
The Sun
Experts say it had been overlooked among museum specimens collected in the early 20th century by scientists who thought it was part of a similar species known as the olingo.
The Sun
It was described in 2005, after analysis of 35 museum specimens collected in 1926 and 1947-8.
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Museum staff were flushed with success after seeing it cling to the first prize.
The Sun
Two of the museum staff are kneeling down next to her.
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Museum staff and administrators were also asked to work from home.
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Museum staff agreed, and he proved to be so good at the job that they brought him on full-time just five weeks later.
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Despite this he was much loved, not only by the museum staff and his professional colleagues but by a wide circle.
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It uses well-chosen photographs and text to emulate a museum tour and teach history from artefacts.
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We're standing in a lovely market hall, opened in 1883, having just finished a museum tour in the same town.
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The museum tour takes around an hour and then it's time for honey for tea.
The Sun
For larger parties, she used the apartment block's private restaurant, sending small groups upstairs in rotation for their museum tour.
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Is it advisable to book the museum tour in advance?
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These few works have successfully made the transition from the elite realm of the museum visitor to the enormous venue of popular culture.
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The site has been developed as a museum visitor attraction.
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Museum visitors are, by definition, fascinated by history and world culture.
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Besides being open to museum visitors, the space will also be used for classical and folk gigs, theatre, cabaret and even small-scale operas.
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Unlike real museum visitors, we have privileged, crowd-free close-ups.
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His family hope to open a museum in his memory.
The Sun
Why not open a museum devoted exclusively to video art?
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Their shared dream was to open a museum to show off the collection.
Houston Chronicle
Something had got lost in translation and, as the penny dropped, he must have questioned why he was bothering to open the museum for a couple of tourists.
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But, among his immediate plans, he wants to open a museum and stadium lounges that pay homage to the club's history.
The Sun
Together the buildings of the complex form an open-air museum.
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The street had become a kind of open-air museum representing modern, eclectic, brick-style buildings.
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The open-air museum brings a bit of skilled-trade history into the present, and it takes a hands-on approach.
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An open-air museum was established to recreate the modest settlement.
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In this open-air museum, visitors can see interesting technical objects such as vegetable (mainly flax) oil production, worsted production and weaving cloth.
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But the maintainers of our waterways believe that canals need a more sustainable future than as an outdoor museum.
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The countryside, he says, can be modernised too: it's not just an outdoor museum.
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Just outside town the abundant streams form part of an outdoor museum illustrating how water power was used in pre-industrial times.
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A small outdoor museum with some of the artifacts collected in the area can be viewed for a small fee.
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The community was re-created in the 1980s as an outdoor museum.
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Now, three years later, the permanent museum has finally made its debut.
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The community heritage project, which collated the material, continues to work to establish a permanent museum.
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The permanent museum was opened in 2013.
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This will need a team of specialists, backed up with long-term shore-based conservation facilities and permanent museum protection.
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His works are to be found in a number of permanent museum and corporate collections as well as in private hands.
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It also houses an apartment on the second-floor, a 'career archive', and a private museum featuring 80,000 pieces of magic memorabilia.
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He also opened his own house to the (paying) public as a sort of private museum/gallery.
The Times Literary Supplement
It originally began as a private museum or pinacotheca.
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In 1955 the size of his collection grew to the point where he could open a private museum to the public.
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The company selected twelve masks from a private museum collection and reproduced the masks on a small scale.
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Thanks for the all the nominations for our virtual museum.
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He has also launched a ground-breaking virtual museum, with 5,000 pictures documenting his entire career (valentino-garavani-archives.org).
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Many thanks for all your suggestions for our virtual museum during the past year.
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Ingeniously, he has come up with a solution: the first (to my knowledge) virtual museum for sporting memorabilia.
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They also handed them 10,000 for rental and running the project - plus 6,000 to build a virtual museum.
The Sun
After several lessons, he asked her if she would like, perhaps, to visit a museum.
The Times Literary Supplement
It shows a city in which he wishes to visit the museum of an institute founded in 1920.
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People from around the globe visit the museum and learn what we share in common, and how humans have interpreted the world through their artefacts.
The Sun
In a typical year 18,000 people disembark to visit the museum and send a message that can take weeks or months to reach its destination.
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More than 350,000 people, many of them students, visit the museum every year.
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The whole thing should resemble a world-class museum in miniature, with a multiplicity of separate rooms and the occasional special exhibition.
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Its commercial and public-use areas also make it the site of world-class museums and research centers and of widely known shopping districts and restaurants.
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The city has two world-class museums.
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Translations:
Chinese: 博物馆
Japanese: 博物館
- interactivity
- interact naturally
- interact online
- interact regularly
- interact socially
- interact strongly
- inter alia
- intercede
- intercept
- intercept a call
- intercept a communication
- intercept a letter
- intercept a message
- intercept a pass
- interception
- interceptor
- intercession
- interchange
- interchangeable
- interchangeable parts
- interchangeable terms
- interchangeably
- intercity bus
- intercollegiate
- intercollegiate athletics