Definitions for Museum
myuˈzi əmMu·se·um

Princeton's WordNet(4.25 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. museumnoun

   a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value

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1. museumnoun

   A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.

Webster Dictionary(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Museumnoun

   a repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art

   Etymology: [L., a temple of the Muses, hence, a place of study, fr. Gr. , fr. a Muse.]

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1. Museum

   A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in smaller cities, towns and even the countryside. The continuing acceleration in the digitization of information, combined with the increasing capacity of digital information storage, is causing the traditional model of museums to expand to include virtual exhibits and high-resolution images of their collections for perusal, study, and exploration from any place with Internet. The city with the largest number of museums is Mexico City with over 128 museums. According to The World Museum Community, there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 countries.

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1. Museum

   mū-zē′um, n. a collection of natural, scientific, or other curiosities, or of works of art.—ns. Museol′ogy, the science of arranging—Museog′raphy, of describing, museums. [L.,—Gr. mouseion; cf. Muse.]

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Museum' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1490

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Museum' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4120

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Museum' in Nouns Frequency: #580

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Museum in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Museum in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Museum in a Sentence

1. Christoph Heubner:

   After all, it was in Berlin where all these crimes were planned and prepared and displaying the artwork in Germany's historic museum shows that they are an immediate part of German history.

2. Curator Christophe Cherix:

   We feel she was never given the recognition for that. In a way her fame overshadowed the art and as a museum our role is to bring that back.

3. Chris Theodore:

   The big thing for me was that I didn’t want the car collecting dust in some museum being undrivable, it’s a lot of responsibility.

4. Edmond de Concourt:

   A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

5. Ken Jacobson:

   We understand there is a market for war memorabilia and that serious collectors are interested in items like this, while we don’t have an issue with Nazi-era automobiles like this going up for auction, we would not want to see the vehicle winding up in the hands of someone who would use it to glorify Hitler or the deeds of the Nazis. Ideally, we would prefer to see it housed in a museum, so that it could be understood in its proper context.

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