museum
noun
Examples of museum in a Sentence
Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 Apr. 2024
This example is just one of and estimated 29 to 36 pieces ever produced, with three residing in the Patek Philippe museum.
—Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 30 Apr. 2024
Participants in the Order would converge, flash-mob style, at museums, stare intensely at a work of art for half an hour, and vanish, their twee-seeming feat of attention complete.
—Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2024
Image Image At the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts, Siddhartha V. Shah, another former Ph.D. student who was then the museum’s curator of South Asian art, showed Higonnet Bengali muslin and Kashmiri shawls that influenced the styles of her three muses in the 18th century.
—Dina Gachman, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2024
Fluffy white beds beckon beneath prints of his famous 17th-century paintings, many of which hang in museums that are just a few minutes’ walk away.
—Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2024
The Costume Institute Benefit, commonly known as Met Gala, is a fundraiser for the museum's Costume Institute.
—Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2024
The city said the number was determined to align with the maximum group size in its museums.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 25 Apr. 2024
Moise, who was recently appointed as the museum’s first Haitian-American board chair, thanked Wilson for her support.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2024
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museum
noun
from Latin Museum "a place devoted to the Muses, a place for the study of special arts and sciences," from Greek Mouseion (same meaning), from Mouseios "of the Muses," from Mousa "Muse, goddess of an art or science" — related to music
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