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Recent Examples of museum piece
The equipment inside is so old that replacement parts are occasionally purchased from owners of historic henequen machines otherwise on display as museum pieces.
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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
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for museum piece
Noun
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Not only did archaeologists find a couple of precious pieces of textiles but also instruments and artifacts that could indicate a workshop, such as needles and a weaving sword, indicating that Beycesultan was a major textile-producing settlement during the Bronze Age.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Feb. 2026
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Most American cities are organized on an unrelenting grid, an artifact of early European settlers’ simple and unimaginative approach to land surveying and real estate speculation.—
Edward Keegan,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Vintage, antique, and dark pieces make a statement in an all-white room.—
Ashley Chalmers,
The Spruce,
25 Feb. 2026
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In recent days, he was served with an arrest warrant in relation to a burglary involving a missing antique safe with a collection of uncirculated coins inside, records show.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
24 Feb. 2026
Noun
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With gold prices climbing well past the $5,000 per ounce mark in late January before moderating slightly over the last few weeks, even the investors who once dismissed gold as a relic of another era are now taking a much closer look.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
19 Feb. 2026
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But those relics of history paled in comparison to the ambience — and opulence — of the Forest Theater.—
Uwa Ede-Osifo,
Dallas Morning News,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Museum piece.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/museum%20piece. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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