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
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The noose didn't stop some visitors to the black history museum.
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Today, the house is a museum and park with artifacts from the war, situated on the original 102-acre property.
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Bochetto said the city money was specified for structural repairs at the museum gift shop and that funds for marketing and promotion are needed more than repairs to the building.
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Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier, museum officials said.
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As a tribute to Henderson, she was recognized Saturday at the driver’s meeting and a brick with her name on it was placed inside speedway’s museum.
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Some of the items were borrowed by the museum as far back as 1950.
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From abstracts to portraits and landscapes, this museum promotes quilting as a form of art.
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His family home here, a grand white three-story house called the Villa Mondriaan, has also been converted into a museum devoted to his life story.
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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
First Known Use: circa 1660
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MUSEUM Defined for English Language Learners
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: 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
MUSEUM Defined for Kids
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: a building in which objects of interest or value are displayed an art museum a museum of science
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