单词 | museum |
释义 | museummu‧se‧um /mjuːˈziəm $ mjʊ-/ ●●● S3 W2 noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINmuseum ExamplesOrigin: 1600-1700 Latin, Greek Mouseion, from Mousa; ➔ MUSE2EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatora place where art is shown► gallery Collocations a building or room where you can go to look at paintings, sculptures etc: · One of the rooms has been made into a small modern art gallery.· We spent the afternoon looking at paintings in the National Gallery.· Dale is showing some of his work in one of the galleries downtown. ► museum American a large building where you can go to look at paintings, sculptures etc: · The museum has a few of Van Gogh's early paintings.museum of: · Baldesaro is in New York preparing a showing at the Museum of Modern Art. ► exhibition a collection of paintings, sculptures etc, often the work of one artist or a group of similar artists, which you can go to see - use this especially when they are only being shown for a limited period of time: · Have you seen the O'Keefe exhibition yet?exhibition of: · The exhibition of works by Hans Memling opens next week.on exhibition: · Many of the photographs on exhibition were taken by artists who worked primarily in other media. ► show an event at which the work of one artist or a group of artists is shown and is often for sale to the public: · Tomorrow is the opening night of her show in Cork Street, London.· a show of new work by young artists WORD SETS► Visualabstract, adjectiveafter, prepositionArt Deco, nounart gallery, nounartist, nounArt Nouveau, nounbackground, nouncalligraphy, nouncaricature, nouncaricature, verbcaricaturist, nouncartoon, nouncarving, nounceramics, nounchalk, nouncharcoal, nounchase, verbclip art, nouncomposition, nounconceptual art, nouncontrast, nouncrayon, nouncrayon, verbcutout, noundecal, noundimension, noundoodle, verbdraughtsman, noundrawing, nounengrave, verbengraving, nounexhibit, nounfigurative, adjectivefigure, nounfreehand, adjectivegallery, noungilt, noungilt, adjectivegraphic, adjectivegraphic design, noungraphics, nouniconography, nounillustrate, verbillustration, nounink, nounink, verbinset, verbintaglio, nounlacquer, nounlacquer, verblaser, nounlife-size, adjectivelight show, nounlinocut, nounmanikin, nounmezzotint, nounmobile, nounmodel, nounmodel, verbmodernism, nounmontage, nounmosaic, nounmount, verbmural, nounmuseum, nounnaturalism, nounnaturalistic, adjectiveneedlepoint, nounnude, nounobjet d'art, nounochre, nounold master, nounop art, nounormolu, nounornamentation, nounoutline, verbpanorama, nounpantograph, nounpastel, nounpastel, adjectiveperspective, nounpicture, nounpicture, verbplasticity, nounpop art, nounportfolio, nounpose, verbpose, nounprimary colour, nounprint, verbprint, nounrelief, nounrepresentational, adjectiverestrained, adjectiveretro, nounretrospective, nounrubbing, nounself-portrait, nounshade, nounshade, verbsilk screen, adjectivesilversmith, nounsitter, nounsketch, nounsketch, verbsketchpad, nounson et lumière, nounstudy, nounstylized, adjectivesuperimpose, verbsymbol, nountattoo, nountattoo, verbtessellated, adjectivetransfer, nounturpentine, nounvanishing point, nounvibrant, adjectiveview, nounvisual aid, nounvisual arts, nounwoodcarving, nounwoodcut, noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a museum collection a building where important cultural, historical, or scientific objects are kept and shown to the public: the Museum of Modern Art The museum has an extensive collection of early photographs.· The specimens are now part of a fine museum collection in London. ► an office/museum/hospital etc complex· a 120-acre office complex near Las Vegas ► the hotel/hospital/museum etc entrance· Our taxi pulled up outside the hotel entrance. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► great· The profits helped pay for the great South Kensington museums.· Pitt Rivers Museum One of the world's greatest ethnographic museums. ► local· Non-national collections, including hundreds of local authority museums and galleries, have still to begin work on their collections.· Its linen and its china patterns are on display in the local museum.· There are many clues hidden amongst the archives of the local library or museum.· Abadi's goals as local museum director are scrawled on a piece of ragged pink paper: Add a few more mannequins.· Museum loan services can also be useful, and visits to the local museums can be extremely valuable.· Here there is a local history museum, Entlebucher Heimatmuseum, dealing with the valley; its opening hours are irregular.· A visit to the site can include watching preservation work insitu. Local museum and visitor centre.· One retired schoolteacher I know was working up to the age of 70 as a volunteer guide in a local museum. ► major· He curated his first Henry Moore show in 1951, and contributed major shows to museums and galleries in Britain and abroad.· Floss your teeth in public: at the opera, in major metropolitan museums.· It is Ryedale's major archaeological museum.· A major museum was willing to do a great show. ► national· It's no accident that the stunning national museum in Wellington is known by the Maori name of Te Papa.· The national museums were dark as well, and the National Mall was filled with cross-country skiers.· With the Council's abolition in that year the Liverpool museums were given the statue of national museums and funded as such.· It could be said that they have abandoned whole areas of their responsibility to the national museums.· Of the 19 national museums that receive direct public grants, only eight demand a fee at the door.· Specialist private dry cleaning of antique textiles: Bernard Dore works for the National Trust and national museums as well as dealers.· It realises the tourists will return only if there is something left to see, not least in the national museum. ► new· The address of the new museum is Calle de la Coruna 18, Madrid.· By the year 2000, a development partnership should be formed, rezoning accomplished and sites for new museums and memorials identified.· Its very proximity however to these two prestigious institutions poses a problem of identity for the new museum.· Her business has become so famous that she felt its success story merited a corner display in her new museum.· That space will revert to galleries, as soon as central kitchens for a new museum restaurant are built elsewhere in the Met.· Tourists will visit scores of new museums and monuments in neighborhoods now plagued by crime and decay.· A new museum has been opened in Kassel bearing the name Museum für Sepulkralkultur.· A much lighter topic is tackled at Paris' newest museum, the Musee de Arts Forains. ► small· His previous experience had been as assistant boss of one of the smaller London museums.· It has an agreeable courtyard with an elegant staircase and houses a small museum dealing with the history of Funchal.· It is the oldest place of worship in Madeira and has recently been converted into a small museum.· A small museum and heritage centre would be maintained within the Abbey development.· Proceeds from the auction will be used for restoration projects and the creation of small provincial museums.· Other towns, like Nicu's fief, Sibiu, have similar though smaller museums.· Junk shops and smaller museums became a more satisfactory hunting ground for her.· Thus we hope to establish a small museum, ideas about which are mentioned elsewhere in this Journal. NOUN► art· It is the largest modern art museum in the world.· When you want culture with a capital C, you go to an art museum.· Major art museums may devote considerable resources to an individual artist's exhibition, on the same scale as a historical show.· Also in Forest Park is the art museum designed by Cass Gilbert.· A model for art museums is the catalogue of the National Gallery, London.· Beginning last spring, art museums have been reeling from drastic cuts in government support.· In an art museum works can be studied at leisure, and will receive attention from scholars and experts of many kinds.· The covert activities of secret service and conspiracy theories entered the apparently benign. neutral world of the art museum. ► collection· Doubtless many more exist in museum collections.· Despite the egress of isolated specimens, museum collections grow in proportion to the director's burden of deciding what to accept.· The measures proposed would disrupt the entire state museum system, and would threaten museum collections.· Unfortunately, it has not been possible to trace these sherds in the museum collection.· Here, the value of well-documented museum collections or excavated finds can not be overstated.· Long-standing museum collections are liable to find their status redefined as perspectives lengthen.· A rather crudely drawn frontispiece depicts several scientific instruments and some objects from the society's museum collections.· In other instances we read that museum collections were set on fire. ► curator· More in love with art than an artist himself, he later became a museum curator.· The traveling exhibition was assembled by museum curator David Rubin several years ago while he was at the Cleveland Center.· On one occasion there was a group of museum curators headed by the director of the Hermitage.· I have had my difficulties, after all, with museum curators and eminent professors.· Nordenfalk's book includes the scrupulous examination of visual evidence always welcome and often found in writing by a museum curator.· Is it the responsibility of the archivist, librarian, or museum curator?· But what are the responsibilities of a museum curator? ► director· Nuremberg's museum directors decide freely and independently on exhibitions and acquisitions.· And he attacked the job performance and qualifications of museum director Steven Brezzo.· The museum directors and critics did not name any abstract expressionist, let alone Pollock.· Some park museum directors complain about the lack of priority given their marketing, maintenance and operational needs.· Abadi's goals as local museum director are scrawled on a piece of ragged pink paper: Add a few more mannequins.· The foundation merged with the new arts center when it opened in October 1994 and Shaw became museum director.· Today's generation of museum directors here is probably not ready for such a move.· Aimee was a gallery owner, Sommard a curator and museum director. ► history· If they were not, bird-watching and natural history museums would each go out of business.· The present de Young, according to the mayor, could be a San Francisco history museum.· Here there is a local history museum, Entlebucher Heimatmuseum, dealing with the valley; its opening hours are irregular.· We walked toward the natural history museum.-What happened between you and Jessica, Brice? he asked.· It has a ruined castle, an interesting local history museum, and its own school of painters.· In side rooms Beuys adopts the conventions of the geological or natural history museum rather than the gallery. ► piece· We do not want fossilised museum pieces of countryside but communities with jobs and a living, dynamic and healthy social fabric.· Gluck was armed with an incredibly heavy musket, a single-shot museum piece with an octagonal barrel and a smooth bore.· Those that have are museum pieces.· Now the 1986 tax-revision measure that shut down shelters and closed some loopholes might best be called a museum piece.· But will I been seen as a museum piece by some?· All the planes are museum pieces, normally kept in a museum.· After all, these chairs were built to be used, not to be museum pieces.· He acknowledges that liturgy is not a museum piece but needs to evolve as part of a living tradition. VERB► build· He built a private museum at Driffield to display his collection. ► open· A special exhibition will open at the museum Nov. 23 to display about 90 of the works.· At the opening of the new museum in San Francisco last year rooms or bays were similarly devoted to Polke and Kiefer. ► visit· We recently visited the Bomber Command museum at Hendon in north London, which was interesting from a nostalgic point of view.· Want to visit the museum without leaving your home or office?· Glasgow is an excellent town for shopping, or perhaps you would care to visit the museums, including the Burrell Collection.· Instead, I tried to visit as many other museums as I could in just a few hours.· The capital of Sardinia, Cagliari, is about 30 miles away and well worth visiting for its many museums and churches.· Tourists will visit scores of new museums and monuments in neighborhoods now plagued by crime and decay.· Study tours to the Holy Land, to learn Modern Hebrew or to visit museums and sites of interest, are encouraged.· Rodes at the Grunwald Center recommends visiting museums with friends, so you can talk about the artwork. |
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