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museum piece

noun

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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 What could be a musty museum piece in some hands is instead an involving trip in the theatrical time machine, propelled by powerful performances and transporting technical choices. —

Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2025 In the book, one thing that is noticeable pretty quickly is that these are not museum pieces protected behind glass. —

Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2025 The equipment inside is so old that replacement parts are occasionally purchased from owners of historic henequen machines otherwise on display as museum pieces. —

Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025 Instead, like in the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, it will permanently be displayed as a museum piece. —

Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for museum piece

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Researchers believe some kind of ritual marked this massive deposit, as the feasting and decorative objects might correspond to an event that might have propelled the stashing away of these astonishing artifacts, as per Heritage Daily.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 23 Mar. 2026
The Pleiades have been known to humanity since ancient times and may even have been depicted in the Nebra Sky Disk, a 3,800-year-old bronze artifact that represents the most ancient depiction of the night sky discovered to date.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 22 Mar. 2026