Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A building, place, or institution devoted to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, or artistic value.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A building or part of a building appropriated as a repository of things that have an immediate relation to literature, art, or science; especially and usually, a collection of objects in natural history, or of antiquities or curiosities.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
Anthrenus .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
building orinstitution dedicated to theacquisition ,conservation ,study ,exhibition , andeducational interpretation ofobjects havingscientific ,historical ,cultural orartistic value.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term museum was coined because the structure was dedicated to the seven muses, but it was really a research institute, the first state-run research institute in the world.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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The term museum was coined because the structure was dedicated to the seven muses, but it was really a research institute, the first state-run research institute in the world.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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The term museum was coined because the structure was dedicated to the seven muses, but it was really a research institute, the first state-run research institute in the world.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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The term "museum quality" was bandied about along with other dubious labels.
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In New York City, the Rubin museum is showing a collection of work from emerging Tibetan artists.
Max Eternity: Buddha 2010: Contemporary Tibetan Art in New York Max Eternity 2010
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In New York City, the Rubin museum is showing a collection of work from emerging Tibetan artists.
Max Eternity: Buddha 2010: Contemporary Tibetan Art in New York Max Eternity 2010
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In that slide show, for example, we learn that originally "the term 'museum' meant a spot dedicated to the muses."
NYT > Home Page By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN 2012
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They hide out in the restrooms when the museum is about to close, and spend the night inside, bathing in the fountain where they take some of the “wishing coins” to help buy food.
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They hide out in the restrooms when the museum is about to close, and spend the night inside, bathing in the fountain where they take some of the “wishing coins” to help buy food.
“From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankeweiler (Atheneum Press, 1967) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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The proposed $5 million, 135 seat Planetarium (pictured above) to be connected to the museum is also on hold.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
reesetee commented on the word museum
Pro and mollusque, I thought of you when I read this book review.
September 17, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word museum
"With a kind of intellectual alchemy, relics that were once considered rubbish became precious collectibles. As traveling became more popular in the seventeenth century, going to see collections open to visitors became an integral part of travelers' itineraries. One enthusiast covering the breadth of Western Europe located 968 collections of antiquities alone. ... Bestiaries, herbariums, and lapidary exhibits abounded."
--Joyce Appleby, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), p. 100
December 28, 2016
Logophile77 commented on the word museum
A place where people muse; a place of musage.
December 8, 2017