Museum Mjuˈziːəm Art Modern Noun Science Visited Galleries

• a museum of modern art
• a science museum
• they visited museums and galleries throughout the city.
• he's the director of a new museum.

museum

1. a building in which objects of artistic, cultural, historical or scientific interest are kept and shown to the public
• SEE ALSO folk museum
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• a museum of modern art
• a science museum
• They visited museums and galleries throughout the city.
• He's the director of a new museum.
• The items will go on display at the museum next year.
• a museum director/curator
• Her prints are in major museum collections.

Extra Examples

• He founded a museum of modern art in his home town.
• Although the mill is no longer in commercial use, it is maintained as a working museum.
• Los Angeles County Art Museum
• The first painting acquired by the museum was by Hopper.
• The museum's collection includes a broad range of furniture, textiles and jewellery.
• The museum houses a fine collection of textiles.
• The museum is housed in a converted church.
• The website's print gallery is a virtual museum.
• There's a gift shop in the museum.
• a museum devoted to children's toys
• an exhibition of Chinese ceramics at the Ashmolean Museum
• an open-air museum of farming and the countryside
• one of the world's great museums

Word Origin

• early 17th cent. (denoting a university building, specifically one erected at Alexandria by Ptolemy Soter): via Latin from Greek mouseion ‘seat of the Muses’, based on mousa ‘muse’.