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noun a building or place where works of art, scientific specimens, or other objects of permanent value are kept and displayed.
Origin of museum 1605–15; <Latin mūsēum place sacred to the Muses, building devoted to learning or the arts (referring especially to the scholarly institute founded in Alexandria about 280 b.c.) <Greek Mouseîon, equivalent to Moûs (a ) Muse + -eion suffix of place
OTHER WORDS FROM museum in·ter·mu·se·um, adjective Words nearby museum museful, museology, Muses, musette, musette bag, museum , museum beetle, museumgoer, museum piece, Museveni, Musgrave
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Example sentences from the Web for museum From photos of museum specimens, the researchers sized up the lizards’ toepads.
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Unearthed in the 1930s from what is now Libya, it sat for decades in a museum .
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Cincinnati Arts and EntertainmentThe Cincinnati Art Museum was founded in 1881, and is one of the oldest art museum s in the United States.
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Unearthed in the 1930s, the fossil came from what’s now Libya and sat for decades in a museum .
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We were going to restaurants, cafes, museum s, and every now and again we’d have a thought about the problem.
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Prado was the first name I recognized here since I used to live a few blocks from the Prado museum in Madrid when I was 20.
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The question implicit in this effort, “If you were starting a museum , what would you put in your collection?”
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Blues music is often treated like a museum piece, a relic from a bygone day, but this band will make you want to get up and dance.
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The British Museum claims that “cultural diplomacy” can somehow discourage human rights violators.
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The museum , as a public institution, must answer these questions.
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This charter, which is in the Saxon language, is still preserved in the British Museum .
There is a statue of her by the steps of the British Museum .
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Another snake, quite small, struck us as being something new; him we bottled in spirit and despatched to the British Museum .
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The portrait of Wellington in red chalk is in the British Museum .
Modern Illustration | Joseph Pennell
A model of a house of this kind is also in the British Museum .
Museum of Antiquity | L. W. Yaggy
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British Dictionary definitions for museum noun a place or building where objects of historical, artistic, or scientific interest are exhibited, preserved, or studied
Word Origin for museum C17: via Latin from Greek Mouseion home of the Muses, from Mousa Muse
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