museum

noun mu·se·um \ myu̇-ˈzē-əm \

|Updated on: 14 Aug 2018

Examples: museum in a Sentence

Definition of museum

: an institution devoted to the procurement, care, study, and display of objects of lasting interest or value

American Museum of Natural History

; also : a place where objects are exhibited

an art museum

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Examples of museum in a Sentence

a museum of natural history
a trip to the Museum of Natural History

Recent Examples of museum from the Web

Connecticut is rich with art galleries, museums and artists; at any given time, there are dozens of exhibits to see, all over the state, by a wide variety of artists using a wide variety of techniques.

— susan dunne, courant.com, "An Eye For 'The Built Environment' Fuels Exhibit At Real Art Ways," 14 July 2018
The book is messy as hell: full of insipid platitudes, trite homilies, and self-regarding detours delivered with the assurance of a man who fully expects to see his childhood finger paintings in a museum someday.

— laurie penny, Longreads, "Peterson’s Complaint," 12 July 2018
Pieces of that clock were also eventually found, and its face is displayed in a museum.

— reema amin, Howard County Times, "Post from iconic Ellicott City clock recovered after being swept away in May flooding," 10 July 2018
The canvases in the museum are along much the same lines.

— steve rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, "Legal clock ticking for Dalí museum in Monterey," 10 July 2018
Plenty of gaming memorabilia can be found in the museum’s main building.

— jay jones, latimes.com, "Las Vegas' past, from a classic chapel to vintage railroad cars, on display at little-known museum," 5 July 2018
Freedman said this, in tandem with the crystals’ beauty, called to mind the placards next to art in a museum.

— kelly conaboy, The Cut, "Unfortunately, I Love Crystals Now," 22 June 2018
In March, the 38-year-old Baltimorean landed his first show in a museum.

— mary carole mccauley, baltimoresun.com, "Artists explore American identity in Sondheim Artscape Prize exhibit," 21 June 2018
Today, the best chance to see a Concorde is in a museum.

— bill van niekerken, San Francisco Chronicle, "When the Concorde supersonic turbojet roared into the Bay Area," 30 May 2018

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Origin and Etymology of museum

Latin Museum place for learned occupation, from Greek Mouseion, from neuter of Mouseios of the Muses, from Mousa

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First Known Use: circa 1660

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museum Synonyms

Synonyms

gallery, salon;

display, exhibition;

studio;

Other History Terms

agonistic, carpetbagger, enceinte, fief, historiography, paladin

MUSEUM Defined for English Language Learners

museum

noun

Definition of museum for English Language Learners

: a building in which interesting and valuable things (such as paintings and sculptures or scientific or historical objects) are collected and shown to the public