MUSEUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does museum mean? 

• MUSEUM (noun)
  The noun MUSEUM has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: MUSEUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSEUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("museum" is a kind of...):

deposit; depositary; depository; repository (a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "museum"):

science museum (a museum that collects and displays objects having scientific interest)

Instance hyponyms:

Hagia Sofia; Hagia Sophia; Santa Sofia; Santa Sophia (a 6th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul; built as a Christian church, converted to a mosque in 1453, and made into a museum in the middle of the 20th century)

Louvre; Louvre Museum (an art museum that is a famous tourist attraction in Paris)

 Context examples 

I have it here in my museum.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To answer this question, the team visited 26 museums around the world, recording coat color for more than 2,700 specimens collected in the winter.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

"If you really persist in your generous view," said the Professor, "I should found a private museum, which has long been one of my dreams."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he opened a door and showed us into a large room furnished as a museum.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The findings from this study highlight the value of using museum collections and molecular techniques to help understand historical patterns of human behavior.

(Extinction of Icelandic walrus coincides with Norse settlement, National Science Foundation)

Beautiful and valuable knick-knacks filled every corner of every apartment, and the house had become a perfect miniature museum which would have delighted a virtuoso.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You may be getting an exhibit ready for a museum or studying fashions from the past to design a new collection.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A murmur, partly of gratification at Twenty Seven's celestial state of mind, and partly of indignation against the Contractor who had given him any cause of complaint (a note of which was immediately made by Mr. Creakle), having subsided, Twenty Seven stood in the midst of us, as if he felt himself the principal object of merit in a highly meritorious museum.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Dr Mostafa Waziri, said he believes this is the first time the preserved insects have ever been found, saying we asked museums in many countries if they have mummified scarabs, but no one have mummified scarabs till today.

(Egyptian Archaeologists Uncover One-Of-A-Kind Tomb South of Cairo, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The team collected DNA samples from mummified birds collected from six separate catacombs including sites at Abydos, Saqqara, and Tuna el-Gebel with permission from the Egyptian Ministry of State for Antiquity, and several museums offered to send tissue samples from the mummified ibises in their collections.

(Ancient Egyptians collected wild ibis birds for sacrifice, says study, Wikinews)