Museum

Quick meaning: Museum is a noun meaning (ambitransitive) To place in a museum.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To place in a museum.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, colloquial) To visit museums.
2. 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

visit the history museum

They're opening a new coin exhibition at the local museum.

I told her I'd do just one visit to start; I don't really have time to do a lot of museuming.

I use daily those books that for others are museumed. The glass case approach depresses me, makes books into porcelain, guts them of what they are.

Word Forms

• museums
• musea
• museuming
• museumed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gallery, museology, collection, library, art, exhibition.

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