Museum Art Mjuˈziːəm Modern Noun Bre Science Planes

• a museum of modern art
• a science museum
• all the planes are museum pieces.
• although the mill is no longer in commercial use, it is maintained as a working museum.

museum

1. a building in which objects of artistic, cultural, historical or scientific interest are kept and shown to the public
• a museum of modern art
• a science museum

Extra Examples

• All the planes are museum pieces.
• Although the mill is no longer in commercial use, it is maintained as a working museum.
• He founded a museum of modern art in his home town.
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• The first painting acquired by the museum was by Hopper.
• 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
• a museum devoted to railway memorabilia
• 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
• the Museum of Modern Art

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’.