museum
a building or place where works of art, scientific specimens, or other objects of permanent value are kept and displayed.
Origin of museum
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- in·ter·mu·se·um, adjective
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How to use museum in a sentence
From photos of museum specimens, the researchers sized up the lizards’ toepads.
Analyze This: Hurricanes may help lizards evolve better grips | Carolyn Wilke | August 26, 2020 | Science News For StudentsUnearthed in the 1930s from what is now Libya, it sat for decades in a museum.
American crocs seem to descend from kin that crossed the Atlantic | Carolyn Wilke | August 25, 2020 | Science News For StudentsCincinnati Arts and EntertainmentThe Cincinnati Art museum was founded in 1881, and is one of the oldest art museums in the United States.
Unearthed in the 1930s, the fossil came from what’s now Libya and sat for decades in a museum.
An ancient skull hints crocodiles swam from Africa to the Americas | Carolyn Wilke | July 23, 2020 | Science NewsWe were going to restaurants, cafes, museums, and every now and again we’d have a thought about the problem.
New Geometric Perspective Cracks Old Problem About Rectangles | Kevin Hartnett | June 25, 2020 | Quanta Magazine
He also warns that the entire Uffizi museum should be fortified with anti-seismic measures.
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.
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind | Brin-Jonathan Butler | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd if you want proof of what the country is really all about, just walk through the National September 11 Memorial museum.
The question implicit in this effort, “If you were starting a museum, what would you put in your collection?”
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.
While residing in Brussels these two artists began to collect works of art for what is now known as the Mesdag museum.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. | Clara Erskine ClementThe Ashmolean museum, at Oxford, England, founded for the purpose of receiving the antiquary's "twelve cartloads of rarities."
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellA student, showing the museum at Oxford to a party, among other things produced a rusty sword.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | VariousBluebeard, you know, had a whole museum of them—as that imprudent little last wife of his found out to her cost.
A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker | Frederick LockerIf, however, I was agreeably surprised by my visit to the theatre, I experienced quite a contrary feeling on going to the museum.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida Pfeiffer
British Dictionary definitions for museum
/ (mjuːˈzɪəm) /
a place or building where objects of historical, artistic, or scientific interest are exhibited, preserved, or studied
Origin of museum
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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