museum piece

as in artifact
something belonging to or surviving from an earlier period that old wooden ironing board she uses is a museum piece

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Recent Examples of museum piece Instead, like in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, it will permanently be displayed as a museum piece. Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025 Household items such as rugs and lamps, which themselves can be appreciated for their geometric order and symmetry, are placed in the gallery areas not as remote museum pieces but in some semblance of their practical uses. Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 Mar. 2025 More museum pieces refurbished & tested to send to the front. David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025 And the drone, though only eight years old, is a museum piece. David W. Dunlap, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for museum piece
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Noun
  • Its permanent collection includes more than 1,700 works of art, and the Price Gallery features over 300 artifacts.
    Gabi De la Rosa, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The question of which individual investor owns which share of which company is surprisingly murky, an artifact of arcane market plumbing made more difficult by the rise of ETFs and fractional share ownership.
    Rohan Goswami, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Across the series' 26 seasons, Wolfe has taken viewers on the road to buy and sell antiques and collectibles for his Antique Archeology business.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Kayleigh Davies, antiques specialist at Auctionet, told Newsweek that the best way to learn to authenticate luxury pens is to handle the genuine article.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Comets are among the most captivating wanderers of the solar system — icy relics from its earliest days that blaze across the sky with glowing tails and mysterious origins.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Investors and policymakers should brace for a world where 2% becomes a relic, not a reality.
    Bob Haber, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Museum piece.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/museum%20piece. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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