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museum

UK/mjuːˈziːəm/US/mjuˈziəm/
nounA2+Very common — you will meet it every day · #1,609 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: museums

A museum is the building where old and precious things are shown behind glass. The British Museum, go to a museum, museum piece.

National museums in Britain are free to enter, which is unusual internationally and was a deliberate policy. What museums hold and whether they should return it is now one of the live arguments in the sector. Museum piece is a mild insult for something outdated. Note that the Greek Mouseion was a shrine of the Muses, so a museum is a place of the Muses.

LuisCG11 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of museum

  1. 1nounmuseumA building where old and precious things are displayed.A2+

    “The museum holds about eight million objects.”

museum is a public building.

Where it comes from

Greek Mouseion was a shrine or seat of the Muses, from Mousa, a Muse. Music and mosaic come from the same Muses.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *men- (think)

  2. Ancient Greek

    Μουσεῖον

  3. Latin

    mūsēum — library, study

  4. English, today

    museum

From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον, shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα). a doublet of mosaic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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museum in the wild

  • The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is a history museum and hall of fame in Cooperstown, New York, operated by a private foundation.

    National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

  • The museum also established and manages the process for honorees into the Hall of Fame.

    National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

  • The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.

    British Museum

  • Established in 1753, the British Museum was the world's first public national museum.

    British Museum

  • The Louvre is a national art museum in Paris, France.

    Louvre

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.