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museum piece

noun

Definition of 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 Where a skipjack under sail was not a museum piece but a working vessel. — Serena C. McIlwain, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2026 The conventional wisdom often treats Japanese management as a museum piece. — Radu Magdin, Forbes.com, 5 June 2026 Those five Grand Sport examples, including a famous winner at Sebring International Raceway, are now seven-figure museum pieces. — Lawrence Ulrich, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2026 The renovation preserves that legacy while layering in modern creature comforts, turning the property into a (functional) homage to mountain history rather than a museum piece. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for museum piece

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Noun

Just as there is a market for drugs and a market for art, there is a market, if a modest one, for these artistic artifacts.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
Vintage photographs and century-old artifacts nod to the property's original incarnation.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of artifact

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The hotel's 18 rooms and five suites are all individually decorated with gloriously over-the-top touches in the form of antiques, sumptuous velvet duvet covers, and regal tones of red and gold that harken back to the property's royal history.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026
That mix allows vintage midcentury modern furniture to sit alongside older antiques and contemporary pieces without forcing a fully midcentury room.

— Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of antique

Noun

When it was closed down in 1539, its treasures, books and relics were seized and its lands and buildings sold off, some to local nobles and gentry, some to the town authorities of Bury.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
There was the innovative foldable Samsung mobile phone launched in 2020, now a coveted relic of collaborations past.

— Zachary Weiss, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2026

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