Museum
[mjuː'zɪəm] or [mju'ziəm]
Definition
(noun.) a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value.
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Definition
(n.) A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.
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Definition
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.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a museum, denotes you will pass through many and varied scenes in striving for what appears your rightful position. You will acquire useful knowledge, which will stand you in better light than if you had pursued the usual course to learning. If the museum is distasteful, you will have many causes for vexation.
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Examples
- The crust of the earth is a vast museum; but the natural collections have been imperfectly made, and only at long intervals of time. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- No one can carry around with him a museum of all the things whose properties will assist the conduct of thought. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Why the bookseller that sold me the Wonderful Museum--where's the Wonderful Museum? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He has already turned his state-room into a museum of worthless trumpery, which he has gathered up in his travels. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And here's Kirby's Wonderful Museum,' said Mr Boffin, 'and Caulfield's Characters, and Wilson's. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But all this has been changed by the advent of the reaper, and ere long the grain cradle will hang on the walls of the museum as an ethnological specimen only. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They are not as in a museum, Robert Jordan said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- And looking for a nice pair of rattlesnakes, to articulate for a Museum--when I was doomed to fall in with her and deal with her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In the great silver exhibition recently held in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, of more than one thousand pieces, there were only two forks to be found. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The organization of the Museum was not planned to ensure its mental continuity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Lewis in the Classical Museum, vol. Plato. The Republic.
- Then he opened a door and showed us into a large room furnished as a museum. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Her Museum and library were a centre of light, but it was light in a dark lantern hidden from the general world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On the side of the superman idea of C?sar, we have to count a bust in the Naples Museum. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is probably the same as the match-lock revolver in the museum of the Tower of London, which is also credited to the Fifteenth Century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Now let us turn to our richest museums, and what a paltry display we behold! Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Nobody else ever did, in the Vatican museums. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Early specimens of spoons made of wood, ivory, bronze, silver and gold are preserved in the museums of Europe and Egypt. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Saxon and Early English examples are to be seen in the English museums today. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The temples were not only observatories and libraries and clinics, they were museums and treasure-houses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Ludwig