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museum

Definition

  • noun: a building in which interesting and valuable things (such as paintings and sculptures or scientific or historical objects) are collected and shown to the public
  • noun: an institution devoted to the procurement, care, study, and display of objects of lasting interest or value
  • synonyms: repository, pinæcotheca, museum pest

Examples

  • That old computer will soon be a 'museum piece'.

  • a 'museum' of natural history

  • a history 'museum'

Movie quotes

  • (..) the police believed it. He got Goldie into rehab, worked things out with her eventually. I've traveled since. Half the world. Art museums, bus stations, airports. The rest of us, we've drifted... but we embrace when we meet, veterans of a sort... (..)
    1996 Foxfire