How to Use museum in a Sentence

museum

noun
  • In the winter, Art Hill—just behind the museum—is the best place to sled on a good snow day.
    Vogue, 3 Apr. 2024
  • In our local museum, a model of the fortress had pride of place.
    Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The museum is filled to the brim with bracelets, swords, and other valuables that have been retrieved from the bogs.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Atha bequeathed the painting to the museum as a partial gift in 1986.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
  • His legacy lives on in the museums and the hearts of his countrymen.
    Danuta Hamlin, Fox News, 17 June 2023
  • The show traveled to museums in Paris, Madrid and Cologne, Germany.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The shoes will live on as a permanent fixture in the museum.
    Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Soup-slinging museum protests are back—and the target this time was the Louvre’s Mona Lisa.
    Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 2 Feb. 2024
  • If skies are clear, the museum will hold an eclipse viewing event outside near the Green Clock on Wells Street.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2024
  • And then a few months later, to have my son just a few feet away in the same museum being featured off of the work that he’s done. ...
    Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The theater is located at the John R Road entrance of the museum.
    Scott Talley, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2023
  • The area is a popular spot with parks, stores and a design museum.
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 25 May 2023
  • The movie ends, pardon my spoiler, at the current-day museum that is Auschwitz.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023
  • For a big-city civic museum, the Carnegie in Pittsburgh is an idiosyncratic place.
    Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • James was in town for the museum’s opening, as the Lakers played the Cavaliers in Cleveland over the weekend.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • There are many museums in Buenos Aires worthy of a visit.
    Harrison Pierce, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Even without a brick-and-mortar home, the museum has a full itinerary planned.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • Specimens like these could be the key to settling the debate, but only if museums can use them for study.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • And two of the foreigners up for jobs already run two top Italian museums.
    Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The monastery’s new on-site museum was set up with help from the Rubin and local museologists.
    Christy Choi, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Entry for the museum party starts at $30; tickets and details can be found at www.cqdetroit.com.
    Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Tickets are $10 plus fees, which pays for entrance to the museum and the presentation.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The small building perched on Vesuvius now houses a museum.
    Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The last public event held at the museum was a memorial in her honor packed with hundreds of people.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Beside the museum is one of the country’s largest Army bases, which trains America’s infantry.
    Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The Getty hails him as a visionary now with 104 of his works currently on display at the museum.
    George Levines, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Schweitzer said that packing and moving a museum is not as simple as packing and moving a house.
    Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The team scanned additional museum specimens from all four genera and found that the spiny mice tails were covered in the same sheather of bone.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 May 2023
  • While the museum remains closed for now, volunteers and donations are helping to bring it back to life.
    Jericka Duncan, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2023
  • At the museum’s opening, James hosted his Lakers teammates for a tour of the exhibit.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 29 Nov. 2023

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