(ambitransitive) To place in a museum.
Used in a Sentence
museum
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for museum.
Editorial note
A museum is not a shop, but a conservation institution: it works on a hundred years perspective.
Examples17
Definitions3
Parts of speech2
Quick take
(ambitransitive) To place in a museum.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of museum gathered in one view.
(intransitive, colloquial) To visit museums.
A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for museum.
verb
(ambitransitive) To place in a museum.
verb
(intransitive, colloquial) To visit museums.
noun
A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.
Example sentences
A museum is not a shop, but a conservation institution: it works on a hundred years perspective.
To me, each airman who served here, and each volunteer who helps with the museum is worth 1000 of Barbara Kingsolver and her kind.
Its absolutely amazing the vast collections inside of Museum storage, most items will hardly ever see display.
Shanghai also has a museum whose centerpiece is a tennis-court-sized 1:500 scale model of the city's downtown.
It's sitting in a museum this way, so this stuff (which is not at all old) clearly didn't work.
This is very cool, it would be more cool if he made it a public museum.
Last weekend I was at the Amiga's 30th Anniversary event at the Computer History Museum here in Mountain View.
Apparently, the museum noticed that a particular lamp was always broken.
The Seattle Museum of Communications has a couple 3b2 machines - I have an account on one of them, its old, but neat.
These are all in the Acropolis Museum today.
Imagine that it becomes a museum some day.
The museum is arranged with the intent to display the complete set of pieces, with blank space deliberately left for the missing items, so in terms of technical housing I don't think there's a problem (this was part of the political motivation for building the new museum, to have a credible facility for the sculptures to be returned to).
Quote examples
Note: "library" here refers to actual libraries with books, not the programming kind, and "collections" as in "museum collection".
Well, make an inventory of a museum, first, and then let me know if you changed your mind once you find out that "item" has absolutely no meaning.
" It has often been assumed that they, like other Classical objects in the Museum, were once painted with colour, but until recently no firm evidence had ever been found." Really, British Museum?!
The simple fact that a work is kept in a museum (and thus is outside the market) changes the prices of similar works (if ever such thing existed: we are talking about unique pieces, no one is ever "similar" to another) available on the market.
Proper noun examples
For those of you in California, there's also the International Printing Museum[3] in Carson (open 10-4PM Saturdays).
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use museum in a sentence?
A museum is not a shop, but a conservation institution: it works on a hundred years perspective.
What does museum mean?
(ambitransitive) To place in a museum.
What part of speech is museum?
museum is commonly used as verb, noun.